Born in 1912 into a wealthy family in Sonwad village, Savantwadi state, ruled by the Bhonsale clan, and grew up in Kudal area, also in Konkan belt, Sindhudurg district,Maharashtra in western India.
Vasant Desai (1912--1975) was a Indian film music composer, most remembered for his score in V. Shantaram films like Do Aankhen Barah Haath (1953), Jhanak Jhanak Payal Baaje (1955), Vijay Bhatt's Goonj Uthi Shehnai (1959) and Hrishikesh Mukherjee's Guddi (1971).
Vasant was born in 1912 in Sonwad village, Savantwadi state, ruled by the Bhonsale clan, and grew up in Kudal area, also in Konkan belt, Sindhudurg district, Maharashtra in western India.
He was with the famous Prabhat Film Company since it started making talkies. He acted, sang, and sometimes composed songs in Prabhat's films like Dharmatma and Sant Dnyaneshwar. After learning the craft of music composition, he stuck solely to it since 1940s.
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Vasant Desai was an outstanding composer in Chitrapat and Marathi drama. He had great knowledge of classical music, and used it to create some immortal compositions. It is one to create a classical composition, but another to invite some of the most respected performing artistes in Hindustani classical, be it gayaki or tantrakari, and earn their respect. Vasant Desai regularly partnered with these stalwarts to produce some great gems.
Vasant Desai was a legend and a trendsetter who left an indelible mark on the Hindi film industry. A talented composer, a visionary, a pioneer, he demonstrated the supremacy of classical Hindustani music in the Hindi film world. During his long and eventful career spanning nearly four decades he composed music for 54 Hindi films.
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Starting his career as a full- fledged music director in SHOBA (1942), a production of Wadia Brothers, he ascended to the top league of composers with SHAKUNTALA (1943), a Raj Kamal production. After this momentous success, he never looked back. But he reached the peak of glory in Jhanak Jhanak Payal Baje (1955), a super hit and a landmark in the Hindi film world. It was the first Hindi film ever to be based wholly on classical music. To his credit are many firsts. He was the first to use background music as a powerful cinematic tool, the first to introduce classical maestros like Khan Sahib Amir Khan,Ustad Bismillah Khan and Pandit Bhimsen Joshi to Indian cinema. To him also goes the credit of unveiling the voice of teenager Lata Mangeshkar on the silver screen (Jeevan Yatra 1946). Among music directors, he was the foremost to discover and encourage new talents. His discovery of Vani Jayaram ("Bol Re Papihara" girl) also made history.
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Maithreem Bhajata is a benediction composed in Sanskrit by sant Jagadguru Shri Chandrasekharendra 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 Oct. 23, 1966 on the occasion of the UN day, by Bharat Ratna Smt. M. S. Subbulakshmi.
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