Veteran music director Ravindra Jain passes away

Mumbai: Veteran music director Ravindra Jain, known for composing soulful music for films like Geet Gata Chal, Chitchor, is dead. He was 71.

Jain had been admitted to Lilavati Hospital in Mumbai after he suffered problem in his kidney due to an urinary infection.

Jain was shifted from Wockhardt Hospital in Nagpur on 7th October to Mumbai by a chartered air ambulance for treatment at Lilavati Hospital in Bandra. He was on ventilator and put on 24

hour dialysis.

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Jain was unwell for quite some time and he was under treatment at the Lilavati Hospital. He went to Nagpur to keep his commitment for a programme which he had planned much earlier.

He was in Nagpur for a concert on Sunday, but could not participate because of his health and was subsequently airlifted to Mumbai yesterday.

His family members, including wife Divya and brother Manindra, were by his side during the time of his death.

Jain composed music for hit films like ‘Chor Machaye Shor’, ‘Geet Gaata Chal’, ‘Chitchor’ and ‘Ankhiyon Ke Jharokhon Se", in the 70s.

He was given a big break by Raj Kapoor, for whom he composed many super hit songs in movies such as ‘Ram Teri Ganga Maili’, ‘Do Jasoos’, and ‘Heena’, which was directed by Randhir Kapoor.

During the 1980s and 1990s, Jain widely composed music for many mythological movies and television serials. Recently, he composed music for Rajshri Production’s ‘Vivaah’ which starred Shahid Kapoor and Amrita Rao in the lead.

A playlist of some of the popular songs that Jain had composed.

(with inputs from PTI)