“He believed in Christ and was fond of Biblical films. Though he was a fine comedian he was fascinated by serious subjects.” In fact, Kishore was contemplating making films - Dinoo Ka Dinanath – about a shepherd boy with the healing touch and Drihstiheen about blind survivors in a pilgrim bus mishap. “That’s why he was fascinated with the word ‘door’ and used it in his trilogy films Door Gagan Ki Chaon Mein, Door Ka Rahi and Door Wadiyon Mein Kahin.
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He did a lot of charity and free shows for jawans and cancer patients but he never spoke about it.”Īmit reveals his dad was also philosophic. “If someone from the staff came to him he’d pull out a bunch of notes and give.
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He trimmed his own hair by placing three mirrors.” Amit rubbishes the notion that his dad was a miser. “I never saw my father ever going to a barber. But one of them recognised him and screamed, ‘Yeh to Kishore Kumar hai’,” laughs Amit. His associate Robin Kumar said he was Swami Kishore Anand. Then one day he took off to Badrinath wearing those robes. Looking at each other invokes jealousy’, was his logic.
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He began calling himself Swami Kishore Anand. When asked why he was dressed like that he’d answer ‘meri marzi’. “In 1972, he started growing his hair and sporting sadhu-like orange robes with a mala around his neck. He ruled in hell.”Īmit goes on to share some Kishoresque anecdotes. The media wrote nasty things, but he never cared. Woh uska mazaa lete the (he used to enjoy his act). So, he did the right thing.” He adds, “To the world he was a mystery. It had taken him 25 years to become Kishore Kumar. Amit doesn’t deny these but explains, “He had seen artistes struggle. Like once he put make-up on half his face for a producer who had only paid him half his fee. Like outside his house was written, ‘This is a lunatic asylum’. Tales about Kishore’s endearing eccentricities abounded during his lifetime. Few years later, when Kishore passed away the video-shack owner came to know of it and called Amit to say, “Your dad will remain special not because he was my biggest customer but because he was a great artiste.” So Murphy wrote, ‘Cool it Amit’ and signed below,” he smiles. Dad also told him that I was hot-tempered. Dad, knowing that I was a great Eddie Murphy fan, asked him for an autograph. The shack owner introduced dad to him as the ‘Frank Sinatra of India’. “Just then Eddie Murphy (noted musician and film personality) came along.
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The owner had understood his identity by then,” narrates Amit. In all, he bought VCDs worth 8000 dollars. Finally, the owner took him to the warehouse for some more rare stuff.
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He got so besotted with the huge collection of Hollywood movies there that he kept buying and buying. Dad told us to go and watch a film, while he’d spend his time at a video shack. He narrates an interesting incident, “Once in the early ’80s, dad, Leenaji (stepmother) and Sumeet (step brother), who was just six-months-old and I had been to the USA. He’d hire movies of the ’40s-’70s and see them with the help of his 16 mm projector at home,” shares Amit. On my birthdays, he’d treat me to Hollywood films. “He had a fantastic collection of James Bond, Alfred Hitchcock films and Hollywood classics. But unfortunately we lost the camera,” he laments.Īnother obsession the singer had was for Hollywood movies. Dad also loved shooting his parents in Khandwa (the Gangulys’ hometown in Madhya Pradesh). He even met Sherpa Tensing (first person to set foot on Mount Everest) there. “He shot our entire train journey from Darjeeling to Kolkata. “He shot my growing years and made two volumes – Amit 1 and Amit 2 out of them,” recalls Amit who still cherishes the time they went to Darjeeling where Kishore was shooting for Madhbare Nain with Bina Rai. In fact, he had an 8mm camera with which he kept filming day to day moments. Just two days ago, I was resting in the afternoon, when I felt someone touch my feet, I felt an inexplicable warmth in the touch,” says Amit of the presence that is inextricable in his life and mind.įew would know that the late singer Kishore Kumar’s first love was filmmaking. “According to the scriptures this is the month of Pitra Paksha during which your late ancestors visit you. Amit asks, “Where can you find an artiste who was a producer, director, writer, lyricist, composer, singer and actor all rolled into one? Dad ruled as the number one singer for 19 years.” Amit says he often senses his father’s ‘soul’ in the house.