at shree mallikarjun college of arts and commerce his wife rupa teaches hindi at the same institute it is hardly surprising that rupa is an artiste herself while daughter manasi a postgraduate is a konkani writer and critic his son maurya a class viii student is already more than comfortable juggling between the drums and tabla as for chari himself when he is not attending to his duties at home and at work he is busy singing konkani duets with anuradha paudwal and making shaan sing to his tunes for music albums and acting in konkani films like the remake of nirmonn paltadcho munis and gunaji his most recent mission was yet another first most abhangs and bhajans sung in temples in goa are not in konkani and are in marathi so i decided to compose konkani abhangs and bhajans then trained troupes in them and then held competitions to encourage their singing this competition has now been taken over by ravindra bhavan in margao i have made sure to add devotional songs praising goaspecific deities like shree ranganath and shree shantadurga today these songs are sung even in mangalore said chari ask him whats next on his mind and chari of course is not without an answer the film tiatrist has its story screenplay and dialogues written by me