There are some singers, who you may not have wanted to listen to yourself, but were forced to because your parents loved them or you just happened to be born in the RD Burman-Kishore Kumar era
The whole childhood of a lot of millennials has been spent listening to their fathers singing along ‘Yeh dil na hota bechara’ or their mothers crooning to ‘Yeh sham mastani’.
Till date, you switch on an FM channel or a retro show and there you’ll see; Kishore Kumar’s magic is still alive!
Without any professional training in music, he still earned the tag of the most romantic singer of his era.
The sheer energy that echoed with his words was something that resonated with the people back then and continues to live till today.
Not just Hindi, his voice worked well for even other regional languages including Bengali, Marathi, Assamese, Gujarati, Kannada and Odia.
Dance, jump, roll and yodel in just one song: nobody since then, has even come close to what he creates on screen.
He was never considered in the same league as Mohammad Rafi, or Mukesh; but still was a king in his own might
Music director Khemchand Prakash gave Kumar a chance to sing "Marne ki duayen kyon mangu" for the film Ziddi(1948). After this, Kumar was offered many other assignments
Apart from him being a celebrated singer, he’s also one of the best comic actors India has ever produced.
Kishore Kumar's first film appearance was in Shikari (1946), in which his brother Ashok played the lead role.
Not just this, he has donned the hat of a director, lyricist, and composer and even of a screenwriter at times.
He could easily be referred to, as the perfect combination of quirk and genius. A slave to his eccentricities, he not just made madness fashionable but also garnered a lot of fandom for his whim.
Kishore Kumar married four times
His first wife was Bengali Singer and actressRuma Guha Thakurta -1950-58
His second wife was Actress Madhubala .After his divorce with his first wife, the couple had a civil wedding in 1960
Their marriage ended with Madhubala's death on 23 February 1969
His third wife was Yogita Bali -1976-78
His fourth wife was Leena Chandarvarkar - from 1980 until his death
On 13 October 1987—his brother Ashok Kumar's 76th birthday— Kishore Kumar died of a heart attack in Mumbai at 4:45 pm
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