Ravindra Jain

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Name = Ravindra Sharma|
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Born = 28th february 1944
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Genre = Indian classical music and Playback singing
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Years_active = 1974 - current
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Ravindra Sharma (or Ravinder Sharma, also sometimes credited as Ravinder) is an Indian music composer, who won the Filmfare Best Music Director Award in 1985. He was born blind. He was born in Aligarh on 28th February in 1944. He is married to a poetess Divya Jain. They have a son together, Aayushman Jain. [http://jainsamaj.org/celebrities/ravindrajain-050303.htm]

He is considered one of the most notable of the Hindi music directors in the 1970s and early 1980s, for hit films such as Chor Machaye Shor (1974), Chitchor (1976) and Ankhiyon Ke Jharokhon Se (1978). Along with composing music, he also wrote the lyrics for many of his famous songs.

Jain was responsible for making the the south Indian singing sensatiion Dr. K. J. Yesudas a household name in Hindi movies when he got the singer to sing in many of his movies in the 1970s and 80s. Together they gave the Hindi film industry some memorable songs like 'Oo goriya re' ("Naiyya"), 'Beeti hui raat ki' ("Sunayna"), and 'Gori tera gaon' ("Chitchor"). It is said that Jain was so fascinated by the way Yesudas sang his songs that Yesudas' face was the first he wanted to see if he ever received his vision. Jain has worked on songs after his liaison with Yesudas, but he has failed to attain the pinnacle of glory he achieved with the master singer during the 1970s. In Addition Ravindra Jain also rendered beautiful music to many of the Rajshri Productions films ("Nadiya Ke Paar", "Naiyya", "Chitchor" are some of the finest examples). He was also given a big break by Raj Kapoor and gave some superhit tunes for his film Ram Teri Ganga Maili He recently made a comeback in Ramanand Sagar's Sai Baba, his comeback has made him immensely popular. One of his most famous songs is 'Ankhiyon Ke Jharokhon Se' ("Ankhiyon Ke Jharokhon Se"). He also provided music for epic Ramayana by Ramanand Sagar.

He recently composed music for the Hindi film Vivah directed by Sooraj R. Barjataya, produced by Rajshri Productions.

Jain also featured as Mahaguru in the Indian music reality show Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Challenge 2009.

Awards and nominations

*Filmfare Nomination for Best Music-Chitchor (1976)
*Filmfare Nomination for Best Music-Ankhiyon Ke Jharokhon Se (1978)
*Filmfare Nomination for Best Lyricist- for the song "Ankhiyon Ke Jharokhon Se" in Ankhiyon Ke Jharokhon Se(1978)
*Filmfare Best Music Director Award-Ram Teri Ganga Maili(1985)
*Filmfare Nomination for Best Lyricist-for the song "Main Hoon Khushrang" in Henna (film) (1991) [http://deep750.googlepages.com/FilmfareAwards.pdf]