KISHOREDA :: MODERNITY REDEFINED , EXTRAORDINARILY VERY “ ORDINARY ” BUT " MAGICAL ONE MAN VOICE FOR MUSIC OF INDIAN FILMS "

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Kishore Kumar - : EXTRAORDINARLIY VERY “ ORDINARY ” BUT THE " 8th " WONDER OF THE WORLD :::::: HOMAGE TO THE " MAGIC " 

A TRIBUTE & A HOMAGE TO THE GREATEST INDIAN SINGER :: MODERNITY REDEFINED - :::::

He Always Would say about him to Latadi and Asha Tai ........ " TANHAA MAI AKELA " .......

https://youtu.be/MqDNgLL9hM8

U Tube :: Song :: Tanka Mai Akela 

Today happens to be his 33^rd th death anniversary of ONE of the MOST reverred and perhaps the BEST singer that the world of the film industry has ever produced.  October 13^th 1987 and this was the day he breathed his last at Mumbai A singer who was simply  was a man who did not have any rules, any regulation, any discipline any set principles when it came to the song and the songs that he would sing them. However when he finished singing them ONE always FELT- SINGING NEEDS NO SET RULES . He HIMSELF WAS THE RULE FOR EVERY SONG . 

Unlike the others he would eat anything, enjoy being doing anything and would not even bother to practice to throw out anything during the time of singing which could be defined as the songs based on the principle of songs .In other words he made SONGS out of the scripted songs and there are many examples of them but the ONE was the song – EK CHATUR NAAR KARKAY SHRINGAR……. From the film PADOSAN

He was not from the GHARANA lineage nor from the ones who had come out of the USTAAD patronage who were taught all the basics of the ragas and the soor that belonged to the pancham, bhairavi or any other such category.

Songs :: He sang the songs against the principles of the “ songs ”

He liked one of his old Hindi film singer and just sang to please his heart but it became that the HEART became his self owned property after 1969 when he started ruling the world of music here at India  . He was very reluctant to sing the songs which were regulated by the principles of singing  . It happened once at Kolkatta where he was invited to sing and record some songs for the PUJO SONKHKYO based on ROBINDRO SONGEET . So reluctant was he that he recorded four songs in a cassette and send it to Hemontoda ie Hemanta Mukherjee,  for his approval and when Hemontoda said him- GO AHEAD did he really move forward.

His “ SIMPLICITY ” :: He never compared himself with anybody , anyone

He never considered himself to be a singer of Mohammed Rafi or say of Lata Mangeshkar’s class He would act and during those years the films were mostly based on GHAR-GHAR KI KAHANI’S theme and obviously there use to be BHAJANS . He never knew how to sing Bhajans Some of the songs were that during those days were the Bhajans to be picturised on him and like as always,  he went upto the Directors and requested them to allow Mohammed Rafi to sing them for him and he would only move his lips for the act  .That is what he was when it came to bhajan . Later when he sang a Bhajan in MERAY JIVAN SAATHI  and to the MIRACLE it became a rage in the public.

Bhajan’s :: The “ FIRST ” Attempt

 His first attempt to sing the bhajan was in the movie RAMPUR KA LAXMAN and he was a bit petrified to sing that  . It was Latadi who started it to sing as a duet and listening to what Latadi had sung he imitated her and that became again a hit of the duet songs during those years The song was SAATHI SAPNO KAY KAAM NAHI AAYE ………

Greatest Risk Of His Singing Career :: Risk made Easy Thereafter

He never was a SHASTRIYA SANGEET’S SUR-PANCHAM He was at the GREATEST risk of his life when he was asked to sing that one A CHATUR NAAR KARKAY SHRINGAAR along with Mannada .That song had everything in terms of SHAHTRIYA SANGEET which Mannada sang it perfectly when it came to his part of singing that one but when it came to Kishoreda HE MADE A HISTORY OUT OF IT BY SINGING IT IN THE MOST & THE MAST “ LAACHAD ” WAY.Laachaad actutally means in the terms of traditional singing as they call it a NON-ACCEPTABLE - RAAG  but he made that song a WORLD FAMOUS song with all his NON-ACCEPABLE RAAGS  adding that TUJHAY SOOR SAMAJH NAHI AAYEE TUNAY KORI GHAAS KHAYEE He made a GHASS ie a GRASS  of all the SURS & PANCHAM that day of all the GHARANAS who practiced singing the songs that way , though the music of the song was composed by Mr Panchamda alias Mr R.D.Burman.

Villians made Heroes:: Success Formulae of Kishoreda

https://youtu.be/vgoQ6L4JEMo

U Tube :: Song - Kalli, Nazaron Baharon Se  " MASTERPIECE " of music by Mr Chitrakoot 

He made many the and many a VILLIANS a HERO out of his songs To cite an example he made Vinod Khanna a hero out of the voice that he rendederd for him in 1970 for a movie named DHAMKEE . The song was KALLI, NAZARON, BAHARON SAY ……. Just listen to the song and you will realize how he sang it for not only making Mr Chirakoot to be considered as a MASTERPIECE of of a musician but to  make Vinod Khanna a “ MANCHALA “ from being such a HARD ROCKED VILLIAN.

Duets made a SINGLE-PIECE :: That Was His Magic

https://youtu.be/cfch7yz_95Y

U Tube :: Song :: Bum Pam Bum Pam Paa Raara  ..... class of a MUSIC by Mr Chitrakoot

He made the duets also a SINGLE-PIECE of attraction for the one’s he sang .The example of it being a song BUM-PUM-BUM-PUM-PAA-RAA-RAA from the film HAMARA ADHIKAAR. This tune has the flavor of the songs from the ARABIC and the LATIN AMERICAN MUSIC .  Later the TRIO with Kishoreda at his PEAKING BEST  together with R D Burman and Asha Tai made  many a songs , that one would refer them as a HINDI-TARAANA the way they sang it and the way Panchamda composed the music for the same

Even when Pran the GREATEST VILLIAN of the HINDI film industry needed a song to potray himself as a HERO he gave him TWO songs- the FIRST one was HUR KOI CHAHTAAH HAI EK MUTTHI AASMAAN in the film Ek Mutthi Aasman and then the rendition DAARU KI BOTAL MAI  PHIR SAHAB PAANI BHARTAH HAI in the film  Majboor

Incidentally the Indian worlds was changing from 1969 . From being the world of GHAZALS, BHAJANS, QUABBALIS, TUMKHAAS, MUJRAAS that made the songs an EDEN  in the Hindi film it was changing to the NEWEST GENERATION’S YOUNG BLOOD where there were Rakesh Roshan, Shatrughan Sinha, Vinod Khanna , Vijay Arora, Rajesh Khanna , Shashi Kapoor, Amitabh Bachchan, Randhir Kapoor just to name few  and who were slowly inching their way ahead in the film industry and again they were a new concept of story writing that was slowly taking place in the film industry .The sarees were slowly being replaced by the BIKINI’S and the swimmimg pools were the added features of the film .The CHOUPAL, POOJA GHAR were being replaced by the BARS in the film industry in terms of the movie making  .The Colleges and the College functions were the added piece of the film show in the movies THE YOUNG TURKS AND THE GUNS WERE THE NEW CONCEPT OF THE FILMS

Obviously the GAZALAS, BHAJANS would not find a place and a NEW DIALOGUE- BETA YEH LADKI HAMARI KHAANDAAN KI BAHU BUN HI NAHI SAKTIH YEH LALA……… KA HUKUM HAI ……… NIKAL JAO……. ISI WAQT AUR ABHI……… and the world of MULTI STARRER was taking place.  The world of cinema making too was taking place in terms of the change of MODERNITY getting in

New concept of singing ought to come and it was here that Kishoreda and Asha Tai started taking over and when it came to YOUNG GUNS & COOTS it was Kishoreda Be it SAMAA HAI SUHANA SUHAANA from Ghar Ghar Ki Kahani be it BHAWAREY KI GUNJAN HAI MERA DIL from KAL AAJ AUR KAL be it SAMNAY YEH KAUN AAYA DIL MAY HUI HULCHAL from JAWANI-DEEWANI……. To the serious INSPIRATIONAL ones like RUK JANA NAHIN TU KAHIN HAAR KAY…….. from the film Imtihaan  a change of the generation, a change of the culture, a change of the mental makeup and thinking of the society etc where the MODERN GIRL/WOMAN and the modern aged thinking boys had erupted into the Indian society and the films made Kishoreda a OBVIOUS choice to lend his voice to the BOYS who fell into that category and he became the ruler as well as the ONE MAN MUSICAL INDUSTRY in the Hindi Filmworld

He later learned how to sing the bhajans ansd the gazals and sang it in the movies that had it in the later time but he learned them from Mohammed rafi and Latadi Rafi Sahab was the THROAT of the Indian Film Music Industry from 1946 to 1969 but Kishoreda was its VOICE from 1969 to 1987 till the moment he died .

I can GO, GO, and GO like anything but try out these songs in the U-Tube and listen to Kishoreda. You will ENJOY the HEAVEN of the EARTH . BET- YOU TRY 

Try these songs of Kishoreda in the U-Tube-:

1). Gum Ki Rahon Mai

2). Aak Mujhay Jal Janay Bhi Doh

3). Jindagi Zuaa Hai Raam Ki Dua Hai

These are the MOST-DIAMONDLIKE-UNRELEASED songs of Kishoreda which the NATION has NEVER heard them and I request ONE-AND-SUNDRY to listen to it in the U-Tube. Your experience will be something that YOU will never FORGET and WOULD NOT be in a position to describe it, especially the last one JINDAGI JUA HAI, RAM KI DUA HAI the music of which is COMPOSED by Mr Salil Chowdhury who actually NEVER considered Kishorda a SINGER at all, but at last REALISED that his thinking about him was TOTALLY wrong. 

The one’s that I have written here  one can  download them , PLEASE do it for your own sake . I bet and I will bet , you will never make a LOSS for the same .  TRY IT and ENJOY .

The " REAL" Kishoreda That NOBODY except Latadi knows::

Who was your favourite co-singer?

Once in a public function where she was singing a song and which was televised all across India after Kishoreda's death, in that event a compere of that programme has put a QUESTION to latadi asking her  WHO WOULD HE HER BEST CO-SINGER IF SHE HAS TO REALLY CHOOSE ONE WITHOUT ANY PARTIALITY....

The answer was Kishoreda and this is what Latadi had to say thereafter for Kishoreda .......

Lata Mangeshkar: Kishore da (Kishore Kumar) without doubt. We were constantly entertained during, before and after recordings with him. He would have us in " splits". But he would get serious in front of the music composer.

But he was very sad under the mask. A month before his death I got to know how unhappy he was. He called me to share his sorrow. He didn’t want to come home as there would be too many people there. So we met at mutual friends’ place where I saw the other, somber, side of him. I’ll never forget what he told me about his life that evening. I can’t share that, but I had never imagined he was so unhappy from within. He said I was his " rakhi " sister and he wanted to share his grief with me. After listening to him I told him I was there for him whenever, wherever he needed me.

Nevertheless INDIAN music INDUSTRY has never been the same and does not appears to be the one that we had it when the QUADRUPLET of Latadi, Rafi Sahab, Asha Tai and Kishoreda especially when  Kishoreda  was  alive singing those words for us .

Regards and with a LOT of Thanks 

Well , that is it

Shyamal Bhattacharjee

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Shyamal Bhattacharjee 

Mr Shyamal Bhattacharjee, the author was born at West Chirimiri Colliery at District Surguja, Chattisgarh on July 6th 1959 He received his early education at Carmel Convent School Bishrampur and later at Christ Church Boys' Higher Secondary School at Jabalpur. He later joined Hislop College at Nagpur and completed his graduation in Science and he also added a degree in    B A thereafter. He joined the HITAVADA, a leading dailies of Central India at Nagpur as a      Sub-Editor ( Sports ) but gave up to complete his MBA in 1984 He thereafter added a Diploma In Export Management. He has authored THREE books namely Notable Quotes and Noble Thought published by Pustak Mahal in 2001 Indian Cricket : Faces That Changed It  published by Manas Publications in 2009 and Essential Of Office Management published by NBCA, Kolkatta  in 2012. He has a experience of about 35 years in Marketing

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