Remembering Kishore da
On his 88th birth anniversary, the Indian nightingale and legendary singer Lata Mangeshkar remembers singer Kishore Kumar, saying that he was as a very good person. She took to Twitter to post, “Namaskar.Kishore Da ki aaj jayanti hai.wo jitne acche gayak the utne hi acche insaan the.Mujhe Kishore Da ki kami hamesha mehsoos hoti hai.” She also posted her first playback with Kishore Kumar and wrote, “Mera aur Kishore Da ka saath mein ye pehla geet jo humne 1948 mein gaaya tha.”
Amitabh Bachchan too took to Twitter to post, “Kishore Kumar's Birth Annv, Prod, Dir, Actor, Singer Music Dir; sang for me 51 films, 130+ songs, and 60 films I acted in.”
Evergreen songs
Born in a Bengali family in Khandwa, Central Provinces (now in Madhya Pradesh) as Abhas Kumar Ganguly on August 4, 1929, the legendary singer dominated the Hindi music industry for several decades. From soft numbers to peppy tracks to romantic songs, Kishore Kumar gave Bollywood fans a number of evergreen songs. He also sang in different languages, such as Bengali, Marathi, Assamese, Gujarati, Kannada and Oriya. Kishore Kumar won eight Filmfare Awards for ‘Best Male Playback Singer'. —ANI
