Laxmikant-Pyarelal also known as LP or Laxmi-Pyare, were a popular Indian composer duo, consisting of Laxmikant Kudalkar (1937–1998) and Pyarelal Sharma (born 1940). They composed music for about 635 Hindi movies from 1963 to 1998, working for almost all notable filmmakers including Raj Kapoor, Dev Anand,Feroze Khan, BR Chopra, Shakti Samanta, Manmohan Desai, Yash Chopra, Subhash Ghai, Manoj Kumar, Rajashri Productions, J. Om Prakash, Raj Khosla, Ramamand Sagar, Mohan Sahagal, V.Shantaram Laxmikant Shantaram Kudalkar, was born on the day of Laxmi Pujan, onHis father died when he was child. Because of the poor financial conditions of the family he also could not even complete his academic education. Laxmikant's father's friend, a musician himself advised him and his elder brother to learn music. Laxmikant learnt to play the mandolin and his elder brother learnt to play the tabla. he mastered this art on his own. He began organising and performing in Indian Classical Instrumental Music concerts in order to earn some money. Later Laxmi did get the opportunity to learn the mandolin from known player Bal Mukund Indorker and also to learn the violin from Husnalal of the popular music duo Husanlal Bhagatram, especially in the 1940s. Pyarelal Ramprasad Sharma, was born in Gorakhpur district of Uttar Pradesh, on 3 September in 1940. He started learning violin at the age of 8 and practised it 8 to 12 hours daily. He learnt to play violin from a Goan musician named Anthony <b>…</b>
