bollywood star salman khan joined fans and film stars in mourning the demise of veteran music director vijay patil aka laxman of raamlaxman duo taking to his twitter handle the actor offered laxmans family his condolences and praised the musicians contribution towards some of his biggest films raam laxman music director of my successful films like maine pyaar kiya patthar ke phool hum saath saath hain hum apke hain kaun has sadly passed away may his soul rest in peace condolences to the bereaved family khan tweetedthe composer whose real name was vijay patil passed away at his residence in nagpur in the early hours of saturday due to a cardiac arrest he was 78he had taken second dose of covid19 vaccine covishield six days ago there was no problem at that time but when he came home he developed weakness his parameters were dropping doctors were attending at home he passed away at around 2 am on saturday he had a cardiac arrest his son amar said in a statementpatil known by cinema aficionados as laxman of duo composers raamlaxman started his journey in films with marathi actorcomedian dada kondkes 1975 film pandu hawaldarhe gave the music for the movie with his collaborator surendra under the name raamlaxmansurendra passed away in 1976 but patil continued to compose under the same name slightly changing it to raamlaxmanpatil took his initial lessons in music from his father and uncle he later studied music at the bhatkhande shikshan sansthain his over four decadeslong career he composed music for over 150 films in hindi marathi and bhojpuri and worked with famous film directors such as manmohan desai mahesh bhatt gp sippy anil ganguly and sooraj barjatyasome of his other memorable works are agent vinod 100 days anmol tarana patthar ke phool and hum se badhkar kaunlegendary playback singer lata mangeshkar was one of the first film personalities to pay tributes to patili got to know now about the demise of the very talented raam laxman ji vijay patil i am deeply saddened he was a very good person i have sung many songs composed by him which had become quite popular my heartfelt condolences she wrote on twitterthe official twitter handle of production banner rajshri also mourn the lossmusic composer vijay patil aka laxman of the iconic raamlaxman duo passed away our deepest condolences to his family in this tough time rajshri will always remember him for his immense contribution to the music industry may his soul rest in peace the post read