Biografie

Diploma Film - Perhaps Tomorrow - Adjudged Best Script in the Canadian International Students' Film Festival 1969-1970.

Gold Medalist in Direction from Film Institute of India, Pune - 1969.

First wife was director Aruna Raje. They had two children. A son name Hith and daughter named Gaagi who passed away from Leukemia. He later married Tejashree (Daughter of director V Shantaram and sister of actress Rajshree).

Nephew of music composer Vasant Desai.

Film making is child's play - making a film, however, is a lifetime learning process.