Ravindra Jain
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Ravindra Jain (or Ravinder Jain, also sometimes credited as Ravinder) is an Indian music composer. He was born completely blind. He was born in Aligarh on 28th February in 1944.
He is considered the most notable of the Hindi music directors in the 1970s and early 1980s. His song genre is light, classical music. He is famous for melodious music and noted for their soothing qualities. His talent is not restricted to music direction alone, but he has composed beautiful lyrics too for many of his songs.
Jain's greatest discovery is claimed by some to be the noted playback singer, Dr. K. J. Yesudas, who has sung in many of his pictures. Together they gave the Hindi film industry some memorable songs like 'Oo goriya re' (Naiyya), 'Beethi hui raat ki' (Sunayna) and 'Gori tera gaon' (Chitchor). It is said that Jain was so fascinated by the way Yesudas sang his songs that Yesudas' face was the first he wanted to see if he ever received his vision. Jain has worked on songs after his liaison with Yesudas, but he has failed to attain the pinnacle of glory he achieved with the master singer during the 1970s.
He also provided music for epic Ramayana by Ramanand Sagar. Other than hindi, he has also composed songs (including both music and lyrics for some songs)in other languages including Bengali.
His latest soundtrack Vivaah is his comeback to bollywood after many years starring Shahid Kapoor and Amrita Rao.
