iTIHAAS k panno se...

 Ek shakhs jinki zindagi k baare mein padhna aur jaanna mujhe humesha achcha lagta hai wo hain kishore kumar..unki personality k itne pehlu hain ki unhe samajhke liye "lena hoga janam hume kai kai baar.."..

Tales about Kishore’s endearing eccentricities abounded during his lifetime. Like outside his house was written, ‘This is a lunatic asylum’. Like once he put make-up on half his face for a producer who had only paid him half his fee. Amit doesn’t deny these but explains, “He had seen artistes struggle. It had taken him 25 years to become Kishore Kumar. Here, no one pays you on time. So, he did the right thing.” He adds, “To the world he was a mystery. But he had a naqab on. He was not mad. Woh uska mazaa lete the (he used to enjoy his act). He’d say, ‘Duniya mujhe kehti pagal, main kehta duniya ko pagal’. The media wrote nasty things, but he never cared.”

Amit goes on to share some Kishoresque anecdotes. “In 1972, he started growing his hair and sporting sadhu-like orange robes with a mala around his neck. He even went for recordings like that. He began calling himself Swami Kishore Anand. Later, he blindfolded himself. ‘Mujhe kisiko nahin dekhna. Looking at each other invokes jealousy’, was his logic. For days, he went around like this. Then one day he took off to Badrinath wearing those robes. After the darshan, he sat on a peak. Some women asked who the sadhu was. His associate Robin Kumar said he was Swami Kishore Anand. They went up to touch his feet. But one of them recognised him and screamed, ‘Yeh to Kishore Kumar hai’,” laughs Amit. “I never saw my father ever going to a barber. He trimmed his own hair by placing three mirrors around him.” Amit rubbishes the allegation that his dad was a miser. “If someone from the staff came to him he’d pull out a bunch of notes and hand them over. He did a lot of charity and also free shows for jawans and cancer patients but he never spoke about it.”