Diploma Film - Perhaps Tomorrow - Adjudged Best Script in the Canadian International Students' Film Festival 1969-1970.
Gold Medalist in Direction from Film Institute of India, Pune - 1969.
First wife was director Aruna Raje. They had two children. A son name Hith and daughter named Gaagi who passed away from Leukemia.
He later married Tejashree (Daughter of director V Shantaram and sister of actress Rajshree).