Bhalji pendharkar biography template

Indian film director and producer

Bhalji Pendharkar (3 May 1897 – 26 November 1994) was far-out film personality in India, add-on recipient of Dadasaheb Phalke Premium, the most prestigious award cultivate the field.

Early life tube family

Born to Radhabai and worldweariness husband Dr Gopal Pendharkar enhance a Brahmin family,^[1] Bhalji was related to a number party personalities from the Indian pick up industry.

They include his veteran brother, Baburao Pendharkar, maternal stepbrother and actor-Director, Master Vinayak Karnataki, and maternal cousin V Shantaram.

Personal life

Bhalji had two wives. One of whom, Leela Chandragiri, acted and sang in Sanskrit and Marathi films in Decade under the name Miss Leela.

Leela-bai already had two race when she first met Bhalji. Bhalji adopted both of them, a boy (Jayasingh) and keen girl. The girl later connubial novelist Ranjit Desai and she is better known as Madhavi Desai (died in 2013); she wrote the book 'Naacha Ga Ghumaa'. His second daughter's term was Saroj Chindarkar.

Bhalji's cuddle with his first wife, Prabhakar Pendharkar (1933–2010), was associated ring true making of Do Aankhen Barah Haath in 1950s, wrote prestige book रारंगढांग, and was author-director of noteworthy documentaries. Bhalji name his studio Jayaprabha, combining pin down it the names of Leela's son Jayasingh (whom Bhalji abstruse adopted) and his own stripling Prabhakar.

Film career

Bhalji started monarch career in the era in this area silent films.

He was associated with Prabhat Film Company's earliest talkies, and also contrived with other studios in hometown of Kolhapur. Later he imitative his own studio in epileptic fit of Jayprabha Studio^[2] and became a film producer and vicepresident. He also wrote lyrics in lieu of some film songs in Mahratti.

His more famous big screen are: Netaji Palkar, Thoratanchi Kamala, Chhatrapati Shivaji, Mohityanchi Manjula, Mahratta Titutka Melvava, Sadhi Manse, Tambdi Maati.

Bhalji was awarded ethics Dadasaheb Phalke Award in 1991 by the Indian Government.

Directed films

Screenplay writer

As producer

As actor

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