Kishore Kumar :: MODERNITY REDEFINED - EXTRAORDINARLY VERY “ ORDINARY “ BUT THE " 8th " WONDER OF THE WORLD ::::::

Pic - :: The " Babu Moshai " Kishore Kumar , played to perfection by Rajesh Khanna In " Anand " 

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

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

Today happens to be his 34th death anniversary This was the day he breathed his last at Mumbai.  A singer who was simply a man who did not have and did not believe in  any rules, any regulation, any discipline or  any set principles when it came to the song . He was something which beat all the Chemistry and it’s principles or Physics,  and the principles of sound , when it boiled to the sound energy . That was he .

Pic - :: The " GIGGLING " Mood of the unamusing genius Kishore Kumar 

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 . He was very different with each passing mood and many would  consider him to be somewhat crazy , but that infact are the hallmark of the genius. 

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 sur that belonged to the pancham , rag bhairavi , bhairavi or any other principles that engulfs the songs belonging to  such category .

He  adored and liked , one of his old Hindi film singer, Mr Kundan Lal Saigal ,  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 ( Hemanta Mukherjee ),  for his approval and when Hemontoda said him- GO AHEAD did he really move forward.

He never considered himself to be a singer of  the class of Mohammed Rafi or say of Lata Mangeshkar’s  and he never believed that he was somewhere near to their 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 there  were the  Bhajans were  to be picturised on him. He  would go to the Directors and request 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  a film , MERAY JIVAN SAATHI it became a rage in the public 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 ………

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  EK 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  UNIMAGINABLE  as we call it , “ LAACHAD “ WAY adding that TUJHAY SOOR SAMAJH NAHI AAYEE TUNAY KORI GHAAS KHAYEE He made a GHASS ie the dry grass  of all the SURS & PANCHAM that day of all the GHARANAS who practiced singing the songs that way

He made the 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 make Vinod Khanna a “ MANCHALA “ from being such a HARD ROCKED VILLIAN.

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 . He together with R D Burman with Asha Tai made it 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 portray 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 SAHAB PAANI BHARTAH HAI in Majboor

Incidentally the Indian worlds was changing from 1969 From being the world of GHAZALS, BHAJANS, QUABBALIS, TUMKHAAS, MUJRAAS 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 , Amitabh Bachchan, Randhir Kapoor just to name few 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 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 kept on coming fast,  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…….. a change of the enervation, 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

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  Jeet Har Ke  Tu  Jee Lay ,  Raam Ki Dua Hai

And the one’s that I have written here and download them You will never make a LOSS for the same TRY IT and ENJOY

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

Well , that is it and That sums it all.

Regards and Thanks

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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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