Bhalji Pendharkar

Bhalji Pendharkar was an Indian film director who received the Dadasaheb Phalke Award, the industry's highest honor. He was born on May 3, 1897. Vande Mataram Ashram (1927), Netaji Palkar (1939), and Shyam Sundar were his films as a director and writer. He died on November 28, 1994. His parents are Radhabai and Dr. Gopal Pendharkar. Several of his close relatives rose to prominence in the Indian film business.  In the 1930s, he married Leela Chandragiri, who appeared and sang in Hindi and Marathi films as Miss Leela. When Leelai first met Bhalji, she already had two children. Bhalji adopted both of them, a boy (Jayasingh) and a girl. Madhavi Desai (died in 2013) was the girl's name who later married novelist Ranjit Desai Ranjit Desai is an Indian novelist, playwright, an >> Read More... and penned the book "Naacha Ga Ghumaa." Saroj Chindarkar was the name of his second daughter. Prabhakar Pendharkar Prabhakar Pendharkar was born in 1933 to Bhalji Pe >> Read More... , Bhalji's son with his first wife, wrote Do Aankhen Barah Haath in the 1950s and was the author-director of notable documentaries.

Bhalji named his studio Jayaprabha, combining Leela's adoptive son Jayasingh and his son Prabhakar. Bhalji began his career in the silent film period. He worked with the Prabhat Film Company's first talkies and other studios. Later, he established Jayprabha Studio and began working as a film producer and director. He also wrote lyrics for few Marathi film songs. Netaji Palkar, Thoratanchi Kamala, Chhatrapati Shivaji Click to look into! >> Read More... , Mohityanchi Manjula, Maratha Titutka Melvava, Sadhi Manse, and Tambdi Maati are some of his more well-known flicks. Maharathi Karna Actor cum director Sanjay Khan had made this TV se >> Read More... , Valimi, and Chhatrapati Shivaji are all his Hindi works. The Indian government honored Bhalji with the Dadasaheb Phalke Award in 1991.