The author is a veteran journalist. He has worked in various reputed newspapers and lifestyle magazines. He is married to Vinaya, with two daughters, Shilpa, a teacher, and Deepti, a lawyer, and grand-daughter Ananya. He resides in Mumbai, India.
Ramchandra Narhar Chitalkar, famously known by his screen name C. Ramchandra, was one of the most talented, celebrated, top-ranking, and highly successful composers of Bollywood of the 1940s and 1950s. He also produced movies, crooned and had a brief stint as an actor.
He was also a skilled musician who played harmonium, mandolin, piano, and wrote music, too. He was gifted with good looks and imposing physique - over 6ft tall with fine features.
C. Ramchandra came from very humble family origins. He was born to struggling parents of high-caste Brahmin descent from Punatamba village, Ahmednagar district in Maharashtra, India, on January 12, 1918.
He passed through an insecure, unstable and a painful childhood. He had very little schooling, since his heart and soul was in music, singing and movies. He began taking music and singing lessons when he was just about 12 years old in pursuit of his dream of becoming a music director. He took it in his stride the early humiliation at the hands of bosses of big film studios.
His mother and siblings made the best use of his fame and fortune, he was betrayed by his best actor-director-producer friend, he was two-timed by women he fell in love with, envious colleagues in the film industry harmed his professional reputation and falling out with his famous sweetheart wrecked his career. However, perhaps a tragic figure that emerges from his memoirs is his long-suffering wife Ben who was aware that her husband was a philanderer and an alcoholic.
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