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Bhalji Pendharkar
Indian film director and producer
Bhalji Pendharkar (3 May 1897 – 26 November 1994) was a film personality in India, and recipient of Dadasaheb Phalke Award, the most prestigious award in the field.
Early life and family
Born to Radhabai and her husband Dr Gopal Pendharkar in a Brahmin family,[1] Bhalji was related to a number of personalities from the Indian film industry. They include his elder brother, Baburao Pendharkar, maternal half-brother and actor-Director, Master Vinayak Karnataki, and maternal cousin V Shantaram.
Personal life
Bhalji had two wives. One of whom, Leela Chandragiri, acted and sang in Hindi and Marathi films in 1930s under the name Miss Leela. Leela-bai already had two children when she first met Bhalji.
मराठी चित्रपट कलाकार सूर्यकांत मांढरे | Marathi Film Actor Suryakant Mandhare | Reel Life Biography.Bhalji adopted both of them, a boy (Jayasingh) and a girl. The girl later married novelist Ranjit Desai and she is better known as Madhavi Desai (died in 2013); she wrote the book 'Naacha Ga Ghumaa'. His second daug
