Golden Era of Bollywood: Ravi - His music became a part of our life

One of the most talented but underrated music directors of the Indian film industry was Ravi Shankar Sharma, popularly known as Ravi, who has an immortal, unique and amazing relationship with the personal life of every Indian or lover of Hindi cinema living all over the world.
No Indian wedding is completed without playing these three cult songs.'Aaj Mere Yaar Ki Shaadi Hai' from the film 'Aadmi Sadak Ka' (1977), 'Babul Ki Duayen Leti Ja' from the film 'Neel Kamal' (1968) and .'Aye Meri Zohrazabin, Tujhe Maloom Nahin' from the film 'Waqt' (1965), A song that is played or sung at every Sangeet ceremony.
In addition, there are many more creations which nine out of ten times come to our mind whenever we try to express the following human emotions through a film song such as 'Chaudhvin Ka Chaand Ho' from the film 'Chaudhvin Ka Chaand' (1961), 'Garibon Ki Suno, Woh Tumhari Sunega' from the movie 'Dus Lakh' (1966) and 'Chanda Mama Door Ke' from film 'Vachan' (1955), the most famous and widely sung Lori (Lullaby) by mothers.
Ravi Shankar Sharma (3 March 1926 – 7 March 2012), often referred to synonymously as Ravi was discovered by Hemant Kumar who hired him to sing backing vocals in Vande Mataram from the film Anand Math. He became his assistant for a few years and became independent composer with the 1955 film Albeli. He became popular with the song " C A T Cat Cat Mane Billi" from Dilli Ka Thug.in 1958.
He gave several hit songs and received Filmfare nominations for these films: Chaudhvin Ka Chand (1960), Do Badan (1966), Hamraaz (1967),Do Kaliyan, Bharosa, Ankhen (1968), and Nikaah (1982). He won Filmfare awards for Gharana(1961) and Khandan (1965). His other successful films include Waqt, Neel Kamal and Gumraah.
After a successful career in Hindi films during the 1950s and 1960s, he took a long break after 1970 till 1982. In 1982, he gave music for the Hindi film Nikaah, and one of the film's songs Dil ke armaan aansooyon main beh gaye sung by Salma Agha won her the Filmfare Best Female Playback Award.
He died on 7 March 2012 in Mumbai at the age of 86.