PAN India centenary celebrations for legendary music composer and singer Sudhir Phadke, who has more than 111 Marathi and Hindi films to his credit, are set to take off on July 25 with an event at Ravindra Natya Mandir in Prabhadevi. The celebrations will see Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat in attendance and Uttar Pradesh governor Ram Naik, too, is slated to attend. Phadke was apparently associated with the RSS for 60 years.

Celebrations will go on for a year, with events to be held through 12 months for 'Babuji', as Phadke was popularly known. They will culminate on July 24, 2019. Organiser Prasad Mahadkar said, "Nagaland Governor Padmanabh Acharya will be part of the attendees at the Mumbai function besides, of course, Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis and School Education and Cultural Affairs minister Vinod Tawde." Mahadkar said that Phadke was associated with some of these attendees when he played a seminal part in the Goa Freedom Movement.