Kishore Kumar, a multi faceted genius he was. He was an actor. A comedian par excellence, he could emote tragic depths as well. As a comic icon, his body spoke, while his eyes conveyed the deep feel when it came to serious shades.
He wrote some scripts, too. He was a music director as well. As a singer though, he is simply superb. Countless of his songs, expressing myriad emotions linger in our ears, abide on our lips. His unique voice has endeared thousands of feels for us.
The beauty of his singing voice is that he was not classically trained. Yet the raw energy of his voice literally floods our ears with the bestest of tunes expressing a varied range of emotions. Faultless is he despite his 'lack' of training.
And yet it is his supposed eccentricity and his colourful married life that continue to be the talk of the town. Yeh koi baat hai? Why so?
Most probably, it is voyeurism. Most people are thus expressing their lust to know more about his personal life as their own lives are absolutely nothing to write home about. Yet another possible reason could be that by thus bringing him down, they allay their fear of his tremendous talent. Only thus can they render him ordinary, right?
It could also be an attempt at self assauging. To hide the lack of talent in themselves and to avoid having to praise it in him, the need to dismiss him via his complex personality and difficult life, may be.
Why did he act whimsically? I do not know much about the details. Yet I feel that it was his cloak, his mask which helped him hide his real emotional self from the selfish world around him. At times, it could also be his mode of mocking the teeming vicious fools around him. It could be a deterrent to the mundane as well, whenever he saw through the shallowness around. Tough to decide!
Well, ek actor achha sa/Ghar se nikla gata, gata sa/Mila hamare Kano ko/jaise Amrit ho swarg sa/yeh to baat hai! Right?
Pratima@ In great admiration of Kishore's tough yet simple songs that touched zillion souls!
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