Birthday Wishes - Kishore Kumar
Kaustubh Pingle
many die-hard fans down he must be quite content and happy, up there...
Uploading here for the first time, some small small "video" snippets on
the first documentary made on Kishoreda "Tribute To Kishore Kumar"
Ashok Kumar pays tributes to Kishore in Shanmukhananda Hall
http://d.turboupload.com/d/839917/AK_TALKS_-_SHANMUKHANANDA.MPG.html
All AK references below are of Amit Kumar :
AK talks about Kishoreda's love for cars :
http://d.turboupload.com/d/839882/AK_TALKS_-_CARS.MPG.html
AK talks about the Bangla film produced by KK - Luko Churi and its
phenomenal success
http://d.turboupload.com/d/839972/AK_TALKS_-_LUKOCHURI-BUNGALOW.MPG.html
Leena C & AK speak
http://d.turboupload.com/d/840080/LEENA_AK_SPEAK.MPG.html
AK Talks about KK's film making - part1
http://d.turboupload.com/d/840086/AK_TALKS_-_FILM_MAKING.MPG.html
AK Talks about KK's film making - part2
http://d.turboupload.com/d/840150/AK_TALKS_-_FILM_MAKING_-_2.MPG.html
AK talks about Door Waadiyon Mein Kahin
http://d.turboupload.com/d/840105/AK_TALKS_-_DWMK.MPG.html
AK sings Bade Achche Lagte Hain - small clip - Marvellous high scale
singing on stage.
http://d.turboupload.com/d/840171/AK_SINGS_BADE_ACHCHE.MPG.html
AK speaks on how KLS was the greatest singer and Kishore instructing
him to do KLS-Riyaaz
http://d.turboupload.com/d/840199/AK_TALKS_-_KLS_TRAINING.MPG.html
AK talks about making of Mamta Ki Chhaon Mein
http://d.turboupload.com/d/840230/AK_TALKS_-_MKCM.MPG.html
Some more to follow soon....maybe we celebrate the birthday for one
week ? :-)
Hope you all enjoy....
KCP
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1) After clicking the link, wait for around 40 seconds. The actual
download link will appear then
2) For dialup users, please look at the video size and then
download....I have tried to minimize every video and at the same time
kept good quality.
3) If there is any error at the time of download, there could be a
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or any time next week :-)
**apologies if this offtopic post makes some people annoyed on some
discussion groups**
shri37
> No use giving you information about Kishor - you would be knowing it
Visit this site for Kishor songs and also watch some funny videos on
the right side..
http://songs.kishorekumar.
shri37
Visit this site for Kishor songs and also watch some funny videos on
the right side.
Kaustubh Pingle
The owner is a friend of mine, currently staying in Pune.
A few more lovely video snippets - basically describing the nature of
Kishore Kumar by his near and dear ones :
1) Ifteqaar ( the closest friend of Kishore ) explaining the reason for
madness in Kishore Kumar
http://d.turboupload.com/d/846253/IFTEQAAR_SPEAKS_-_MADNESS.MPG.html
2) Ifteqaar speaks
http://d.turboupload.com/d/846223/IFTEQAAR_SPEAKS.MPG.html
3) Favourite phrase of Kishore and his friends
http://d.turboupload.com/d/846194/BADHIYA_KHAA_LE.MPG.html
Quiz - which film was this seen phrase, the first time ? - this was not
said by Kishore on the screen.
4) Kishore Kumar and his friends interaction
http://d.turboupload.com/d/846297/KK_FRIENDS.MPG.html
5) Small clip on some more friends of Kishore - pics only
http://d.turboupload.com/d/846268/KK_FRIENDS_-_PICS.MPG.html
6) Small clip on the drawing room of Kishore Kumar's house in Juhu
http://d.turboupload.com/d/846256/KISHORES_HOUSE_INTERIOR.MPG.html
7) Kishore talking about SDB - audio only - with video pics...well
researched documentary.
http://d.turboupload.com/d/846269/KK-SDB.MPG.html
Enjoy !!!
KCP
PS - more to follow but cant say when I wil get time to convert to
acceptable size and upload....
Kaustubh Pingle
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"Music entwined our relationship"
Kishore Kumar's first wife Ruma Guha Thakurta on his
life and music
Kishore and I had a peculiar marriage. We were married
for around seven years, but our relationship, call it
friendship, lasted for many more. Marriage is about
friendship, and Kishore and I remained friends through
the ups and downs, his three marriages and my
remarriage. After we separated in 1958, he hit a bad
patch.
When his acting career was not doing too well due
to certain reasons, I wrote him a letter to lift his
spirits and drew attention to his singing skills,
telling him that his music was always there. Kishore
then began focusing greatly on his singing-it was
anyway his first love. He wasn't a trained singer. But
he was a natural and could imbibe music. Very early
on, he would listen t o S a i - gal sah ab, Faiyaz
Khan Sahab, Abdul Karim Khan... He was a medley of
musical influences, each nuance appreciated and
retained.
So, it's fitting that music entwined our
relationship. Marne ki dunyaein kyon maangoon from
Ziddi was one of his first songs and my personal
favourite when I was a 10-year-old taking my first
steps in the world of playback. I would wait for the
song to play on the radio. When I was at Bombay
Talkies for a shooting, the song was playing in my
head. Somebody introduced me to a strapping young
man... the singer of Marne ki dunyaein... Since then,
the music played on in my life. During our marriage,
Kishore recorded one memorable tune after
another...the melodies that voice our every emotion so
perfectly.
Fans who recall his madcap behaviour in Chalti Ka
Naam Gaadi won't believe how staid and sober, even
serious, he was in his personal life. There was none
of that clowning around at home. His social circle was
limited to a few close friends and family. Our son
Amit and he were particularly close. I remember how
proud he was when Amit won the Filmfare award for best
playback singer for Love Story. He threw a grand party
and flew me, my husband and children to Mumbai for it.
Kishore was happy when I married Arup. His marriages
have been a cause of much curiosity and controversy.
He wanted to legalise his relationships, which
explains the marriages. On my part, I was quite
friendly with Madhubala, Yogita Bali and Leena
Chandavarkar. Leena and I are still very close.
(As told to Dipanita Nath)
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"KK still rocks and rules"
Decades after his death, the magic of Kishore Kumar
remains unbeatable. Shobhan Saxena tributes the singer
on his 77th birth anniversary
Raising a huge cloud of dust, the bus from Manali
roars into the grimy compound of Pehalwan Dhaba on GT
Road. The dawn is breaking over the babool trees
fitted with flickering red-and-green tubelights. When
the fogged panes of the bus are pushed up, a cold gust
sends a shiver through the bus, forcing sleepy eyes
open. The fragrance of sweet ginger tea and greasy
bread pakoras follows. As hungry souls step down from
the bus, a young lad working feverishly over a teapot
turns on his brand-new music system. A giant sound box
jammed into a neem tree belts out Kishore Kumar's O
hansini, meri hansini. On a nippy morning in the misty
northern plains, the song smells like spring flowers
dipped in fresh dew. All eyes are awake. All ears are
filled with music. Even the Israeli backpackers stop
complaining. Kishore's voice washes down the dust from
their tired faces.
If music is the poetry of the air, KK's voice is a
flame. The voice burns continuously on CD players and
iPods and transistors, non-stop across the land: it's
played at roadside tea stalls and highway dhabas;
people shake their heads and legs to it in college
canteens and night clubs; it stirs millions of
forgotten memories in private rooms and evokes
devotion in Puja pandals; blaring from creaking radios
in cabs and autorickshaws, it gives some relief to
passengers choking on diesel fumes. KK is all around
us. Still. Even in this era of hard-selling clones,
meaningless remixes, 24-hour blitzkrieg from the FM
and loud-and-lewd Punjabi pop, KK rocks and rules the
world of Hindi music.
They have remixed him. They have mixed his voice
with reggae beats. They have tried to wrap his voice
with funky guitar strings. They have tried to add
disco echo to his yodel-o, yodel-o yo-o, but they
haven't dared to touch his original tracks of haunting
melodies: the songs of life and letters penned by
Gulzar, the tunes of love and despair set by R D
Burman. KK and RD are still the kings of juke box. The
DJs live off them. The FM channels play other music in
breaks between KK-RD numbers.
KK's Pyaar diwana hota hai and O mere dil ke chain,
two eternal love songs, still make people in the mood
for love go wobbly. The sensuous sadness of Dukhi man
mere still makes the pain arrive in lilting notes. The
breezy carelessness of Chala jata hoon kisi ki dhun
mein still makes people believe in love. The crazy
energy of Eena meena deeka still makes people caught
in the drudgery of life let their hair down. KK's
voice is an experience. He articulates our thoughts.
He gives wisdom to our emotions.
They say he was not the greatest singer. They say
Rafi was more versatile. Probably. Rafi's voice moved
like a gentle wind over the deep yellow mustard fields
of Punjab. Talat Mehmood carried his velvety voice
with the old-style grace of feudal India. Mukesh's sad
voice captured the agony of the tramp hanging out on a
Bombay footpath. Manna Dey was both classical and
rustic. Then arrived Kishore with a whiff of
freshness. He was melodious and vibrant. He was
sensitive and intoxicating. And he was an untrained
singer. He became the voice of city slicke r s -
ambitious in life, r o - mantic at heart, c a re f re
e in attitude and gloomy in despair. His songs have
defined generations. His voice is still guiding a
generation. It's difficult to think of life without
Kishore. Without KK, life may not be a mistake, it
will definitely be incomplete.
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Kaustubh Pingle
some forums.
Likings of Kishoreda ( western artists, movies, music etc )....video
library of Kishoreda's private room shown to public for the first time.
Download the following clips and then use hjsplit easy-to-use software
from :
http://www.treepad.net/download/hjsplit.zip ( 130 kb ) - to join the
following 8 files :
http://rapidshare.de/files/29254162/TASTES.MPG.001.html
http://rapidshare.de/files/29254595/TASTES.MPG.002.html
http://rapidshare.de/files/29255666/TASTES.MPG.003.html
http://rapidshare.de/files/29256430/TASTES.MPG.004.html
http://rapidshare.de/files/29256122/TASTES.MPG.005.html
http://rapidshare.de/files/29334467/TASTES.MPG.006.html
http://rapidshare.de/files/29336552/TASTES.MPG.007.html
http://rapidshare.de/files/29338571/TASTES.MPG.008.html
AK Talks about his first and last duet with KK :
http://rapidshare.de/files/29252892/FIRST-LAST_DUET.MPG.html
AK says that his dad means to him everything in this world :
http://rapidshare.de/files/29251398/UNFORGETTABLE.MPG.html
If these videos or any other previously uploaded videos are not
available online ( deleted by the hosting server ) - then please write
to me at "kcpingle at gmail dot com" ( and not in the discussion group
PLEASE ) - I will email them to you ( burning CDs and posting them to
huge number of fans, would not be possible for me )
A next lot ( maybe around 5 minutes clip ) would be posted next month,
due to its relavance :(
Regds
KCP
PS - to download from rapidshare - click on the file - then click
"Free" option and then enter a code to download the file. download one
video at a time. Some firewall programs might prevent from download.
generally its very simple to download.