Jitendra Joshi (Marathi: जितेंद्र जोशी) is a Marathi theater, movie actor and reality show host. He is versatile actor who has played hero, side hero, comic role as well as villain.
Jitendra Joshi who is also a good writer and the famous song "Kombdi Palali.." written by him and music was composed by Ajay Atul. Same music directors further given "Chikni Chameli...." wherein the music was based on "Kombdi Palali.."
In 2011, he hosted Marathi Paaul Padte Pudhe, a talent reality show on the Zee Marathi.
He played many important roles in Marathi as well as in Hindi. In Marathi he played title role of Sant Tukaram in Tukaram (film released in 2012), a comic role in Guldasta. Not only as a hero, but he has also appeared as Sai a villain character in film Duniyadari(2013).
Jeetendra (born Ravi Kapoor on 7 April 1942) is an Indian actor, T.V and film producer as chairman of the Balaji Telefilms, Balaji Motion Pictures and ALT Entertainment. Famous for his dancing, he was awarded a Filmfare Lifetime Achievement Award in 2003 and the Screen Lifetime Achievement Award in 2005.
Jeetendra was born Ravi Kapoor in Amritsar, Punjab to Amarnath and Krishna Kapoor whose business dealt with imitation jewellery. He attended St.Sebastian’s Goan High School in Girgaum, with his friend Rajesh Khanna and then studied at Siddharth College. While supplying jewellery to V. Shantaram, he was cast as Sandhya's character's double in the 1959 movie "Navrang".
Jeetendra's active acting career spanned the 1960s to the 1990s. Jeetendra was frequently paired with Sridevi or Jaya Prada for remakes of South Indian films by Rama Rao Tatineni, K. Bapayya and K. Raghavendra Rao; these included Sanjog, Aulad, Majaal, Justice Chaudhry (1982), Mawaali (1983), Himmatwala (1983), Jaani Dushman (1979) and Tohfa (1984). He also did many remakes in Hindi of Krishna's Telugu movies and had very close association with him. Besides these south Indian remakes, there was a subdued side of Jeetendra whenever he'd worked with the writer/lyricist Gulzar in films like Parichay, Kinara and Khushboo that had several beautifully penned songs like O Majhi Re, Musafir Hoon Yaaron and Naam Gum Jaayega, composed by Rahul Dev Burman and sung by Kishore Kumar.