Childhood
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Kishore Kumar was born in to a Bengali family in the small town of Khandwa of Madhya Pradesh as Abhas Kumar Ganguly. His father Kunjilal Ganguly was a lawyer and his mother Gouri Devi was from a wealthy family. Kunjilal Ganguly had four children in all, Ashok Kumar the eldest, daughter Sati Devi, Anoop Kumar and Kishore Kumar the youngest. Kishore was still a child, when his brother Ashok Kumar became an actor. Some time later on Anoop Kumar also ventured into the movies with the help of Ashok Kumar. Hanging around his brothers Kishore started to take a keen interest in the movies. As time went on Kishore started to show interst in the music scene too and soon became a fan of K.L Saigal. As Kishore was getting well know to copy K.L.Saigal's songs, his parents would often persuade him to mimic songs from Ashok Kumar's movies. Real Name of Kishore Kumar is Abhas not Abay Initial days in Bollywood. Boardawy http://www.ayuurl.com/go/90 Initial days in Bollywood Kishore followed his elder brothers and came to Mumbai to pursue a career in the movies. Ashok Kumar was doing well but, his other brother Anoop Kumar's career wasn't taking off. On a visit to Austria, Anoop Kumar bought some records to help him to improve his singing skills. One evening when Anoop came back from work, on entering, he heard some yodelling sounds coming from another room and quickly shouted, "who's playing my records?" with no answer, he walked into the room and was shocked to find his younger brother Kishore making the same noise, which he had learnt from listening to Anoop's record collection. Kishore Kumar did not have a formal training in music [1].He did make a name for himself as an actor, but more than anything else he wanted to become a playback singer, that was his goal in life. Kishore would ask his producers if he could sing on the movies soundtrack. Kishore didn't have a style of his own and tried to copy the likes of K.L.Saigal. Sachin Dev Burman (music composer) one day came to visit his friend Ashok Kumar. On entering the front door he heard, he was sure he heard the voice of his friend K.L.Saigal. He asked Ashok "is K.L.Saigal here too?" Ashok replied that it's not him but his younger brother singing in the bathroom. S.D.Burman wanted to meet Kishore as he did. After a lengthy chat S.D.Burman advised him not to copy K.L.Saigal but develop his own style, with this in mind Kishore soon developed his own style, the style of yodelling which, he had learnt from Anoop Kumar's record collection, so yodelling became Kishore's trademark. Kishore becomes famous: Kishore wasn't interested in acting, but was too afraid to rebel against Ashok Kumar, who wanted him to be an actor like himself. Kishore had an idea, if he didn't act properly in his movie roles, for rushing from one studio to another, recording songs, composing music and writing lyrics, he also found time to produce and direct several movies too. Although known mostly as a singer, he also achieved a lot of success as a comedian in films such classics as - Half Ticket, Padosan, Naukri, Chalti Ka Naam Gaadi, Baap Re Baap, Badthi Ka Naam Dadhi, Pyar Diwana, Hungama, Door Ka Raahi and the great classic but commercial flop and his own production called Door Gagan Ki Chhaon Mein. Door Gagan Ki Chhaon Mein was a futuristic movie which had Kishore Kumar with his real life son Amit Kumar playing a deaf and mute young boy. Apart from Sachin Dev Burman, Khemchand Prakash was another composer who recognized Kishore's talents. He composed and recorded with Kishore for the movie Ziddi which became a huge hit. Incidentally, it was in Khemchand's own studio, where Kishore met Lata Mangeshkar. Lata reports that one day she was going to Khemchand's studio to record, looking around she was under the impression that she was being followed, it was only after reaching the studio that she realized that it was Kishore, Ashok Kumar's younger brother with whom she would record duets in the future which would become hit after hits. By now a lot of other well know composers too realised Kishore's potentials and started to work with him. S. D. Burman recorded with Kishore for Dev Anand's (actor) Munimji, Taxi Driver, Funtoosh, House No 44, Nau Do Gyarah, and Paying Guest. At a time when Lata was doing well, S.D.Burman fell out with her and replaced her with Asha Bhosle, Lata's younger sister. S.D.Burman, Majrooh, Asha and Kishore became a stong team and produced some fantastic music for films like, Chalti Ka Naam Gaadi, the song, "Ek Ladki Bheegi Bhaagi Si", "Haal Kaisa Hai Janaab Ka" and "Paanch Rupaiya Baara Aana" became very popular among the moviegoers, there was also, Dev Anand's film Paying Guest and Teen Deviyan. The song "Mana Janab Ne Pukara Nahin" from Paying Guest was incredibly popular. Kishore and Asha recorded a lot of casual hits such as, "Chhod Do Aanchal", "Ankhon Mein Ji", "Arre Yaar Meri Tum Bhi Ho Gajab", "Chhedo Na Meri Zulfein" and there was another classic song from the film Dilli Ka Thug, which had, "C.A.T..Cat Maane Billi" and "Hum To Mohabbat Karega", the list is endless. Majrooh Sultanpuri and Shailendra were favorite song writers of Kishore, he would request them to write all the songs for his home productions. In the days when composers would recommend lyricists to producers, Shankar-Jaikishan (composers) had promised Shailendra that they would recommend him around, but didn't keep their promise, to which Shailendra sent them a note with the lines, "Chhoti Si Yeh Duniya Pehchaane Raaste Hain Kahin To Miloge Phir Poochhenge Haal", Shankar-Jaikishan realized what the message meant and having said, sorry turned the lines into a well know song. Kishore too was interested in composing. History has it that Kishore and Kalyanji Shah of Kalyanji-Anandji fame, introduced electronic sounds to the then composers who were around. Most of the time Kishore would assist S.D.Burman but he would compose and write songs himself. This shows in films like, Jhumroo for which Kishore wrote "Main Hoon Jhumroo".
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