STAR OF THE
DAY
Kishore Kumar (4 August 1929 – 13 October 1987)
was an Indian film playback singer, actor, lyricist, composer, producer,
director, and screenwriter.
He is considered one of the most
successful playback singers of the Hindi film industry. Apart from Hindi, he
sang in many Indian languages including Bengali, Marathi, Assamese, Gujarati,
Kannada, Bhojpuri, Malayalam, Odia, and Urdu. He has also sung in private
albums in several languages especially in Bengali which are noted as all time
classics. He won 8 Filmfare Awards for Best Male Playback Singer and holds the
record for winning the most Filmfare Awards in that category. He was awarded
the "Lata Mangeshkar Award" by the Madhya Pradesh government and from
that year onwards, the Madhya Pradesh Government initiated a new award called
the "Kishore Kumar Award" for contributions to Hindi cinema..
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