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Damodar Sharma was a music director active in the Hindi film industry from the late 1930s through the early 1960s. He is credited with composing scores for a long run of low- and mid-budget productions of the era, including The Golden Gang (1939), Sarovar Ki Sundari (1942), Sheikh Chilli (1942), Rekha (1943), Dulhan (1943), Jadui Jhoola (1943), Jadui Kismat (1944, co-composed with Behram Irani), Alladin (1945), Hoor-e-Baghdad (1946), Jadui Chitra (1948), and, much later, Shriman Satyawadi (1960). Many of these titles belong to the fantasy and costume-drama genre popular with contemporary audiences, often built around magical ('jadui') themes.

The online lyrics database HindiGeetMala credits him with well over 100 songs across dozens of films, with frequent collaborators including lyricist Kikubhai Desai and singer Khan Mastana. Despite this substantial body of work spanning roughly three decades of Hindi cinema, Damodar Sharma remains poorly documented compared to more prominent contemporaries such as Anil Biswas and Naushad, and no detailed record of his early life, training, or personal history has survived in accessible sources.