nagpur music director vijay patil popularly known as the laxman of the raamlaxman duo whose frisky tunes enlivened dada kondkes marathi superhits and the early salman khan blockbusters passed away following a heart attack on saturday he was 78his chartbusters came in films such as tarana maine pyar kiya hum aapke hain koun patthar ke phool and pandu havaldar marathi among those who mourned his demise on social media were the peerless lata mangeshkar and bollywood star salman khan production house rajshri for whom the music director was a regular also posted their condolences rajshri will always remember him for his immense contribution to the music industry it tweetedapart from khan raamlaxmans music also boosted the early career of mithun chakraborty films such as tarana and hum se badhkar kaun and gave a second wind to s p balasubramanyam as salmans playback in late 1980s and early 90s bollywoodthe music of raamlaxman was based on the basics of orchestra and took the legacy of laxmikantpyarelal forward melody even in foottapping numbers was a special feature of their music use of traditional indian instruments along with the typical orchestra setup made their songs popularpatil born and brought up in nagpur started as a singer and instrumentalist in the citys popular orchestra groups later he shifted to mumbai to become a music director with his friend surender raam kadam patil formed a team which was given the sobriquet raamlaxman by kondke it was the wellknown marathi filmmakercumactor who gave them their break in the film industry with pandu havaldar in 1975even after the death of kadam soon after the pair bagged its first hindi film agent vinod patil continued to provide melodies to more than 75 hindi marathi and bhojpuri films as raamlaxman rajshri productions songs in maine pyar kiya filmfare award hum aapke hain koun many awards and hum saath saath hain proved to be superduper hitslovleena aa gaya main from agent vinod in 1977 and deva ho deva ganapati deva from humse badhkar kaun in 1981 stand out in his oeuvre patil composed several chartbusters during the 1980s and 1990s before the advent of nadeem shravan and anu malikten years ago a brain stroke made it difficult for patil to sing and compose he shifted to nagpur and lived with son amar who too is into music patil kept away from the media and lived a quiet life in the untkhana area of the cityfamily members said patil was not a covid19 patient and had taken both doses of the vaccine on friday night he complained of chest pain before he could be shifted to a hospital he got a severe cardiac arrest and died at home around 2ampeople from nagpurs music industry were the first to pay tribute to patil he was a dear friend i will remember his association with kader orchestra when we started a music academy i had invited him to inaugurate it despite being unwell he came said singer m a kader bharat ratna lata