P.L.Deshpande

Full Name of P L Deshpande is Purushottam Laxman Deshpande. He was a Marathi writer from Maharashtra, India.
Deshpande was also an accomplished film and stage actor, music composer, harmonium player, singer, and orator.
Purushottam was born on 8 November 1919 in Gaodevi area (Krupal Hemraj Chawl) in Mumbai. His then family moved Vile Parle before finally settling in Pune for work purposes.For some years, Purushottam worked as a college professor in Belgaum in Northern Karnataka and as a school teacher before embarking on his career in writing, multiple fields of acting, directing, and composing music in the world of movies. As regards his stint as a college professor Deshpande was to write later that his job was to create hate for Marathi language instead of love for it.This was more an attack on the system of education than on the teaching job itself.
Purushottam took lessons in playing harmonium from Dattopant Rajopadhye of Bhaskar Sangitalaya. He was proficient in Hindustani classical music and was an accomplished music director and singer. Being a proficient writer, he wrote screenplays, lyrics and directed music for several Marathi films.
On 12 June 2000, he died in Pune aged 80. He was suffering from the Parkinson's disease.