Remembering classical musical giant krishnarao Chonkar

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KRISHNARAO CHONKAR –

Master krishnarao Chonkar was born in 1908, in Bombay. In music, he was trained by Govindrao Dhurandhar, Mohan Palekar & Shankar rao. He joined Gandharva Natak mandali as a
Hero in dramas after matriculation. He used the classical music on his stage performance mainly.
Though he sang in early films, no records are made. From 1940 to 1960, again he worked in films like Mali-44, Chhatrapati Shivaji-52 etc .
His some songs in films Pooja-54, Rani Roopmati -59 and Hamara Hindustan, etc were popular. In 1962, he directed a Marathi film Nandadeep. He had 2 daughters and one son.
The elder daughter Nalini Chinkar was an actress in Marathi and Hindi films. (I thank Mr. Arun Kumar Deshmukh for providing this information)

Films of Krisnarao Chonkar as an actor are
Sohni Mahiwal-33
Saubhagya laxmi-34
Kala Vagh-34
Flashing Sword-34
Afgan Bala-34
Payam e ulfat-35
Kamroo desh ki kamini-35
Bahadur Beti-35.

And to choose songs, let me add

Rumjhum Ke Bajao – Pooja (1954) with Rafi / Shankar Jaikishan – Shailendra

And,
A widely known song,
Baat Chalat Nayi Chunari Rang Dari – Rani Rupmati (1959) with Rafi / S N Tripathi