21 Facts About Kishore Kumar

In 2013, Kishore Kumar was voted "The Most Popular Male Playback Singer" in a poll conducted by the Filmfare magazine.

Kishore Kumar was awarded the Lata Mangeshkar Award by the Madhya Pradesh government in 1985.

Kishore Kumar's father, Kunjalal Ganguly was a lawyer and his mother, Gouri Devi came from a wealthy Bengali family and was a home-maker.

Kishore Kumar's character was inspired by his uncle, Dhananjay Bannerjee, a classical singer.

Between 1946 and 1955, Kishore Kumar appeared in 22 films, of which 16 were flops; since he was uninterested in taking up acting as a career, he found ways to be in the bad books of the director or producer, so that they would throw him from their films.

Kishore Kumar's onscreen pairing with actresses Mala Sinha, Vyjayanthimala, Nutan, Madhubala, Meena Kumari and Kumkum gave the biggest hits in his career.

Kishore Kumar's films flopped frequently after 1965 and he landed in income tax trouble.

Kishore Kumar was a leading singer throughout 1970s and 1980s until his death in 1987.

Kishore Kumar recorded a duet song Hello Hello Kya Haal Hai with Asha Bhosle for Naushad in 1975 for the movie Sunehra Sansar, the only song of Kishore.

Kishore Kumar performed stage shows right from 1969 to earn money to pay his income tax arrears.

Since Kishore shared good rapport with R D Burman, he agreed to sing in Mahaan, Shakti and Bemisal.

Kishore had directed the film, but died in 1987 and Rajesh Khanna helped Amit Kumar in releasing the film in 1989.

Kishore Kumar was the single nominee in 1985, having all the four nominations to his credit.

Incidentally, Kishore Kumar's all nominated songs were from a single movie, Sharaabi.

Kishore Kumar suffered his first heart attack on 24 January 1981 in Kolkata in the noon hours and within a gap of another four hours, suffered his second heart attack.

Kishore Kumar debut singing in Marathi films in 1987 with the song "Ashwini Ye Na" from the movie Gammat Jammat.

Kishore Kumar was married to Leena Chandavarkar from 1980 until his death.

Kishore Kumar's eyes were wide open and he was breathing out.

Kishore Kumar was included among the top ten most searched Indian singers on Google Search in 2016.

In 2013, Kishore Kumar was voted "The Most Popular Male Playback Singer" in a poll conducted by the Filmfare magazine.

The poll saw neck-to-neck competition between Rafi and Kishore Kumar, followed by Lata Mangeshkar, Mukesh and Asha Bhosle respectively.