Vasant Desai | |
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| Born | (1912-06-09)9 June 1912 Sonawade village,Sindhudurg,Maharashtra, India |
| Died | 22 December 1975(1975-12-22) (aged 63) Bombay |
| Occupation | film song composer |
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Vasant Desai (1912–1975) was an Indian film music composer, most remembered for his score inV. Shantaram films likeJhanak Jhanak Payal Baaje (1955),Do Aankhen Barah Haath (1957),Vijay Bhatt'sGoonj Uthi Shehnai (1959),Sampoorna Ramayan (1961),Ashirwad (1968) andHrishikesh Mukherjee'sGuddi (1971).[1]
Desai was born in 1912 into a wealthy family in Sonawade village,Maharashtra state, ruled by theBhonsale clan, and grew up inKudal area, also inKonkan belt,Sindhudurg district,Maharashtra in western India.[2]
Desai was with the famousPrabhat Film Company since it started making talkies. He acted, sang, and sometimes composed songs in Prabhat's films likeDharmatma andSant Dnyaneshwar. After learning the craft of music composition, he stuck solely to it since the 1940s.
Desai scored music for a majority ofV. Shantaram's films when the latter broke away from Prabhat to form his own film studio. Their relations soured in late 1950s after which Vasant(rao) Desai never worked for his former mentor again.
Desai's memorable songs are,Hindi Filmi Devotional song,Ae malik tere bande hum fromDo Aankhen Barah Haath, 1957, and play back singer,Vani Jairam's debut song,Bol re papihara fromGuddi (1971).[3]
Maithreem Bhajata is a benediction composed in Sanskrit by Sant Jagadguru ShriChandrasekharendra Saraswati of the Kanchi Mutt. The song was set to a Ragamalika by composer Shri Vasant Desai. It was rendered at the United Nations on 23 October 1966, UN day, by Bharat Ratna Smt.M. S. Subbulakshmi.
In Marathi, some of Desai's memorable songs areSanga mukund kuni ha pahila,Uthi uthi Gopala fromAmar Bhoopali (1951),Manuskichya shatrusange yuddha amuche suru from Chota Jawan (1963),Deh devache mandir from Preeti Sangam (1972),Ramya hi swargahuni Lanka from Swayamwar Zale Siteche (1974).[4]
Vasant Desai went back home on 22 December 1975 after a full-day recording of a special musical programme at the studios ofHis Master's Voice, attended by high-profile musicians as it was in praise ofIndira Gandhi[citation needed]. He stepped into the elevator of his apartment building and due to a technical glitch, the lift began to move, crushing him to death.[4]
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