Yes, the title of our blog, a take-off on one of his songs that most all love, should reflect the feel, the response, the emotions he evokes in the minds of most of his listeners. Yes, indeed! Kishore Kumar, whose birth anniversary was celebrated yesterday, is a special favourite. Actually, I was not sure yesterday whether to celebrate his anniversary or Thiyyam's contribution! Hence this delay in writing about him!
I like Kishore Kumar for a number of reasons. For one thing, he is NOT classically deeply trained, and yet he is simply superb. Why, during childhood, he had a huge problem with his voice. Yet each one of his songs, whether passionate like "zindagi ke safar me/jo gujar jate hai makam", intense like the "Safar" songs or the naughty ones like the "Chalti ka naam gadi" or "Padosan" songs, or even his classical attempts like "Mere Naina sawan bhadon" or "Payal wali dekhna" or the "Abhiman" duets or his famous yodels, each one of every variety pleases, nay, enriches our aural abilities.
Tough it is to decide which one is his best. Is it "O, Meri pran sajani" or "rim zim gire sawan" or the songs from "Parichay"? Well, each one is a gem that enhances our listening capacities, right? He is great with every music director and each co-artist. His voice can suit every actor, be it Dev Anand or Rajesh Khanna or Amitabh Bachchan, right?
Listening to him is celebrating the festival of sur-taal with our ears. Mind you, this festival can be of each and every type, Diwali to Holi, Rakhee to Sankranti, 'sawan ke zoolay' to the funerary "koi hota mera apna" or the "hai, tum yad muze".
He is, moreover, a good director, an able actor, a wonderful producer, a great music director and composer, screen play writer, and so on, and so on. As for his notorious whimsicality, I have always suspected that it was a screen to hide the deeply sensitive and emotional person within. Anyways, I have always felt that it is wrong to pass summary judgements on others without truly knowing them!
Instead, better to enjoy, appreciate, admire the variety of artistic experiences his multifarious creativity unfurled for us! In brief, Kishore Kumar marte nahin.Unki ganon ki tarah "amar prem" pate hain!
Pratima@ Wondering why so much Hinglish? Well, one can admire a multi-talented, zany and yet deeply lyrical artist just thus, right?
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