Jasraj's wife Madhura has directed documentaries and children's plays, and directed and produced ballets, Geeta-Govinda, Kaan Kahaani and Surdas, and the TV series, Faster Phene. They have two children, a son, Shaarang Dev Pandit, and a daughter, Durga Jasraj, a television anchor and presenter. They married in 1962, initially living in Kolkata, and moved to Mumbai in 1963. Shantaram, whom he had first met in 1960 in Mumbai. He is married Madhura Shantaram, the daughter of film director V. In 1946, Jasraj moved to Kolkata, where he began singing classical music for radio. Jasraj spent his youth in Hyderabad, and travelled often to Sanand to study music with musicians of the Mewati gharana. Motiram died in 1934 when Jasraj was four, on the day he was to be appointed as the state musician in the court of Osman Ali Khan. Jasraj was born on 28 January 1930 in Pili Mandori, a village in the Hisar district of Haryana (now Fatehabad district) in a middle-class family to Motiram, a classical singer.
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