Yashwant Dev Explained

Yashwant Dev
Field:Marathi poetry, Marathi music
Birth Date:1926 11, df=yes
Death Place:Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Nationality:Indian

Yashwant Dev (1 November 1926 – 30 October 2018) was a Marathi poet and composer from Maharashtra, India.[1] [2] He has contributed scores for many Marathi and Hindi movies.[3]

Career

Dev was taught music by his father and made his public debut at All India Radio as a sitar player. He worked for Akashwani's Nagpur station in 1960s.[4] He gained wide recognition once he launched the TV program Bhavsaragam, which helped make him popular across the Indian state of Maharashtra.[5] After his first wife's death, he married Karuna Dev (née Desai), more famous by her name Neelam Prabhu during her marriage to Marathi stage actor Baban Prabhu when she was a major star in AIR's Shrutikaa program. For both of them, it was their second marriage after the death of first spouse.

Yashwant Dev had contributed music for over 40 plays in Marathi.

Death

Dev died of pneumonia at the Shushrusha Citizens' Co-operative Hospital in Dadar, Mumbai on the 30th of October 2018 and at the age of 91, following a battle with the chikungunya virus.[6] [7] His wife Karuna Dev had predeceased him, around 2010.

Awards and recognition

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Poems written

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Music given

Notes and References

  1. http://www.lokmat.com/entertainment/famous-composer-yashwant-dev-birthday/ Yashwant Dev
  2. https://maharashtratimes.indiatimes.com/maharashtra/mumbai-news/musician-yashwant-dev-passed-away/articleshow/66423617.cms Yashwant Dev: ज्येष्ठ संगीतकार यशवंत देव यांचं निधन
  3. https://maharashtratimes.indiatimes.com/video/entertainment/veteran-music-director-yashwant-dev-passed-away/videoshow/66426164.cms Yashwant Dev
  4. Web site: Composer Yashwant Deo gets Lata Mangeshkar Award. 26 September 2011.
  5. https://www.esakal.com/maharashtra/music-director-yashwant-dev-no-more-152460 मराठी संगीतविश्वातील 'देव' हरपला; यशवंत देव यांचे निधन
  6. https://www.loksatta.com/maharashtra-news/yashwant-dev-passes-away-at-92-fans-artists-cm-mourn-the-death-of-ace-marathi-lyricist-composer-1781078/ मराठी भावगीतांना समृद्ध करणारे व्यक्तिमत्त्व हरपले
  7. https://www.mumbailive.com/en/entertainment/senior-composer-musician-yashvant-deo-passes-away-29727 Yashwant Dev
  8. https://www.hindustantimes.com/mumbai/composer-yashwant-deo-gets-lata-mangeshkar-award/story-4zBG0XvThGjvpL7vzWPeyN.html Composer Yashwant Deo gets Lata Mangeshkar Award
  9. https://www.aathavanitli-gani.com/Sangeetkar/Yashavant_Deo Yashwant Deo Songs
  10. http://www.hindigeetmala.net/music_director/yashwant_deo.php Yashwant Deo songs