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Pandit Indra Chandra Dadhich was a prolific Hindi film lyricist who hailed from Churu district in Rajasthan and arrived in Bombay in 1933, launching his career as writer-lyricist with Gandharv Cinetone's Sati Mahananda. Over a three-decade career he wrote lyrics for more than 875 (by some counts over 900) songs across roughly 128-132 films, yet remained, in the words of film historians, "hardly known" despite this prolific output.

His most significant studio association was with Ranjit Movietone, for whom he wrote 33 films by 1950, including Tansen (1943) and Jogan (1950). He also worked extensively with Prakash Pictures, Wadia Movietone, Huns Chitra, and Sagar Movietone, and became the in-house lyricist for Gemini Films' Hindi productions beginning with Chandralekha (1948) and continuing through Nishaan (1949), Mangala (1950), Sansar (1951), Mr. Sampat (1952), Bahut Din Hue (1954), and Do Dulhe (1955). He collaborated with around 50 composers, most frequently Bulo C. Rani (21 films), Gyan Dutt (17 films), and Khemchand Prakash (12 films), and is also credited as a playback singer on at least one release, Panghat (1947).

Beyond songwriting, he wrote dialogue and stories for numerous films and moved into production, co-producing Sheikh Chilli (1956) with Ramchandra Thakur, and later producing several Rajasthani-language films between 1961 and 1969, including Babasa Ri Ladli, Nanibai Ko Maayro, Gangaur, and Gopichand Bharthari. A road in Mumbai, Kavivar Pandit Indra Marg, is named in his honor.