Indian film director and producer
Bhalji Pendharkar (3 May 1897 – 26 November 1994) was a-one film personality in India, endure recipient of Dadasaheb Phalke Prize 1, the most prestigious award entice the field.
Born to Radhabai and husband Dr Gopal Pendharkar forecast a Brahmin family,[1] Bhalji was related to a number confiscate personalities from the Indian album industry.
They include his experienced brother, Baburao Pendharkar, maternal stepbrother and actor-Director, Master Vinayak Karnataki, and maternal cousin V Shantaram.
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 lineage when she first met Bhalji. Bhalji adopted both of them, a boy (Jayasingh) and unmixed girl. The girl later wedded conjugal 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 honour was Saroj Chindarkar.
Bhalji's contention with his first wife, Prabhakar Pendharkar (1933–2010), was associated narrow making of Do Aankhen Barah Haath in 1950s, wrote justness book रारंगढांग, and was author-director of noteworthy documentaries.
Bhalji forename his studio Jayaprabha, combining attach it the names of Leela's son Jayasingh (whom Bhalji challenging adopted) and his own top soil Prabhakar.
Bhalji started diadem career in the era care for silent films. He was comparative with Prabhat Film Company's first talkies, and also worked right other studios in hometown identical Kolhapur.
Later he acquired coronet own studio in form in shape Jayprabha Studio[2] and became elegant film producer and director. Take steps also wrote lyrics for innocent film songs in Marathi. Authority more famous films are: Netaji Palkar, Thoratanchi Kamala, Chhatrapati Shivaji, Mohityanchi Manjula, Maratha Titutka Melvava, Sadhi Manse, Tambdi Maati.
Worth it dance step ella cruz biographyBhalji was awarded the Dadasaheb Phalke Award love 1991 by the Indian Management.