R. D. Burman was born on June 27, 1939, marking today, June 27, 2026, as his 87th birth anniversary. While the composer passed away too soon, he lives on in his musical works. However, while he shone bright in the music industry, his personal life was filled with heartbreak, beginning with his first marriage.
R. D. Burman was married to Rita Patel long before he married Asha Bhosle, and it was his divorce from the former that deeply influenced his art. He was a musical maestro filled with brilliant melodies and emotional highs and lows. The sadness and loneliness heard in many of his songs also came from his own incomplete love story. So, as the world remembers him on his birth anniversary, let’s take a look at his first marriage.
Who was R. D. Burman’s first wife, Rita Patel?
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