Mamata Banerjee remembers Kishore Kumar on his birthday

"Homage to Kishore Kumar on his birth anniversary," Banerjee tweeted.

Singer Kishore Kumar still makes millions of hearts flutter with his golden voice as his fans across the world will remember him on his
86th birth anniversary on Tuesday.

Kumar, who breathed his last on Oct 13, 1987, was born as Abhas Kumar Ganguly to lawyer Kunjalal Ganguly and Gouri Devi at Khandwa in Madhya Pradesh, was the youngest of the four children.

He and his brothers, Ashok Kumar (Dadamoni) and Anoop Kumar all made a mark in Bollywood.

Kishore, a fan of playback singer K L Saigal, started out as a chorus singer at Bombay Talkies. He had no formal training in music and was
rather reluctant.

It is said that music director S D Burman heard Kishore imitating Saigal and advised him to develop his own unique style rather than
follow someone.

That led to the famous yodeling, a trademark of Kumar’s.

Though he started out as a singer, Kumar acted, wrote lyrics, composed music at times, produced some of the movies, wrote the screen play and the script at times.

His illustrious singing career saw him sing in different regional languages which include his native Bengali, Hindi, Marathi, Assamese,
Gujarati, Kannada, Bhojpuri, Malayalam, Odia and Urdu.

Some of his works includes ‘Chalti Ka Naam Gaadi’, ‘Half Ticket’, ‘Musafir’, ‘Padosan’. ‘Chalti Ka Naam Gaadi’ had all the three Kumar
brothers working in it.

He later produced and directed a movie ‘Door Gagan Ki Chhaon Mein’ in which his first born Amit Kumar played his son.

He play-backed for some of the biggest names in Bollywood which include actors Dilip Kumar, Rajesh Khanna, Dev Anand, Amitabh
Bachchan, Mithun Chakraborty, Dharmendra to name a few.