Yashwant Dev | |
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Born | 1 November 1926 |
Died | 30 October 2018 Mumbai, Maharashtra, India | (aged 91)
Nationality | Indian |
Known for | Marathi poetry, Marathi music |
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]
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.[4]
Yashwant Dev had contributed music for over 40 plays in Marathi.
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.[4]