Many, like Yesudas, fix the Bengali suffix for elder brother ‘Dada’ while addressing him. Many even consider him a full-blown Bengali to this day. It was this impact of Bengali music forms that later made him a great creator of light music that unfailingly touched the hearts of his listeners. He had also recorded a song sung by the popular Bengali singer Aarti Mukherji. Soon he was teaching music in schools of music in Calcutta and writing and composing songs for Calcutta station of All India Radio as well. He became an aficionado of Rabindra Sangeet. There he stayed with a Bengali family and became proficient in Bengali language. Respecting the opinion of his music Guru that staying in Aligarh will not further his prospects in a career of music, he left for Calcutta. Later, learning the classical music in traditional manner over a long period under the tutelage of different teachers, Ravindra Jain was able to obtain the highly valued title of ‘Sangeet Prabhakar’ by the time he was seventeen.
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