After death of partner Jaikishan Dayabhai Panchal in 1971 Raghuwanshi continued to sign
work with joint names.
He was both a trained wrestler and a dancer.
Only his family attended the funeral. The media, as well as the film industry, got to know about his death only after the cremation...
The film industry was hardly present at his funeral, thus reinforcing the stereotype of its fickle-natured loyalties, when compared to Jaikishan's death in 1971, which drew the entire film industry.
At The Prithvi Theatre that he learnt to play and mastered several other instruments like sitar, accordion and piano etc.
Besides his work at Prithvi Theatre, he also started working as an assistant to the leading composer duo of Husnlal Bhagatram and nurtured the ambition of becoming an independent music director.
Shankar started his career with a theater group run by Satyanarayan and Hemawati, before shifting to Prithvi Theatre where he played tabla and performed some minor roles in plays.
He mastered the tabla (which he would play in a local temple there), pakhawaj and other instruments, and when he came to Mumbai he joined the troupe of dance-master Sohanlal and Hemavati (the late Sapru's wife) as a tabla player.
Shanker trained as a dancer, and even worked with the famous Krishnan Kutty.
It was Mr. Gokhale, who was once a cook in Shankarji's house, who later became Pujari in Gora Ram Mandir at Thakurdwar, Mumbai, who informed people that Shankarji was cremated hastily on the day of his death, without the knowledge of others.