Pradeep Shifted to Bombay and wrote four songs for the film, all of which became very popular and sung three of the songs himself. The film starred Devika Rani and Ashok Kumar. Pradeep was invited to a Kavi Sammelan in Bombay (now Mumbai) where he was offered his first film Kangan by the late Himanshu Roy of Bombay Talkies. After graduating from Lucknow University in 1939, he decided to join a teacher's course and teaching. It was during this time he changed his name to Pradeep. He hypnotized the audience at kavi sammelans (poet's gatherings) with his inimitable style. Since his early student days in Madhya Pradesh and later in Uttar Pradesh, he had a passion for writing and rendering Hindi poetry. Born Ramchandra Barayanji Dwivedi in 1915 into a middle-class Brahmin family in the small central Indian town of Badnagar, in Madhya Pradesh state.
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