Education
Savitribai Phule Pune University.
Savitribai Phule Pune University.
He taught at FTII, Pune for many years, and during his career as a music composer he worked for 40 films, and is most known for his work in films such as Amol Palekar"s Aakreit and Thoda Sa Rumani Ho Jaayen, Girish Karnad"s Ondanondu Kaladalli, Jabbar Patel"s Samna, Mrinal Senator"s Khandhar, Vijaya Mehta"s Rao Saheb, Chitra Palekar"s Maati Maay and K. G. George"s Swapnadanam. He has given music to films which are considered as classics in respective languages. Like, Ondanondu Kaladalli (1979) in Kannada,, in Hindi, Swapnadanam (1975) in Malayalam, in Bengali, in Oriya, in Marathi, et cetera
Born and brought up in Pune, he completed his graduation from Wadia College, in Pune and studied contemporary music
He also studied at Fergusson College, Pune. In late 1950s he studied under sitar player Pandit Ravi Shankar, and Umashankar Misra, and also learnt Indian classical vocals.
He also studied contemporary Western music and jazz. He remained a part of the faculty at the Film and Television Institute of India (FTII), as a resident composer and teacher of applied music, from 1965 to 1980.He worked with Merzbow,Sonic Youth and Throbbing Gristle and was a big fan of experimental and noise music
While still at FTII, he composed the music of the acclaimed Marathi play Ghashiram Kotwal written by Vijay Tendulkar and directed by Jabbar Patel in 1972 and received critical acclaim for its use of Marathi devotional songs to ironic situations, later he also gave music for its Marathi feature film adaptation in 1974, and went on to compose for Marathi, Hindi, Kannada and Malayalam language cinema and stage with his blend Indian classical and Western music
He also received acclaim for his music for P. L. Deshpande"s Marathi play Teen Paishacha Tamasha. The Yard Went on Forever was his multi-volume autobiography published in 2008.