P. L. Santoshi

Pyarelal Santoshi, born Pyarelal Shrivastav on 7 August 1916 in Jabalpur, went to Bombay in the thirties. Secretary to the producer Jaddanbai, for whom he wrote his first songs in 1937, he was a lyricist at Ranjit and then at Bombay Talkies and wrote more than three hundred songs. A director from 1946, he failed as a producer, and his last years were marked by hardship. He died of kidney failure in Bombay on 7 September 1978; his son Rajkumar Santoshi became a director.

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• CinemaBarsaat Ki Raatबरसात की रातP. L. Santoshi · 1960Cinema