The late legend’s doodle has a picture of him smiling from the Google India home page Google, the most popular search engine in the world never fails to recognize and pay tribute to some of the best icons ever born. Today’s Google Doodle celebrates the 85th birth anniversary of none other than the late singing legend, Kishore Kumar. Kishore Kumar was born on August 4, 1929 and it is a well known fact that not only was he a talented singer but was a multi-talented personality overall. Along with being a sensational singer, he was also an actor, lyricist, producer, music composer, director, screen play writer etc. He was introduced to the industry by his elder brother Ashok Kumar. Kishore Kumar is most popularly known for his roles in Chalti Ka Naam Gaadi and Padosan. His first film wasShikari where he acted opposite his brother Ashok Kumar. Some of his evergreen songs include gems likeHum Hain Rahi Pyaar Ke, Phoolon Ke Rang Se, Yeh Raatein Yeh Mausam etc. Kumar was said to have been married 3-4 times with one of the names in his list being Mughal-e-Azamsensation Madhubala who also acted with him in the film Chali Ka Naam Gaadi. The legendary singer passed away on October 13, 1987. To celebrate Kumar’s 85th birth anniversary BollywoodLife has in store for you, a list of the best songs sung by the sensation. Stay tuned! Kishore Kumar (4 August 1929 – 13 October 1987), was a popular Indian film playback singer, actor, lyricist, composer, producer, director, screenplay writer and scriptwriter. He is considered one of the most successful playback singers of the Hindi film industry. He sang in many Indian languagesincluding Bengali, Hindi, Marathi, Assamese, Gujarati, Kannada, Bhojpuri, Malayalam, Oriya, and Urdu. He won 8 Filmfare Awards for Best Male Playback Singer and holds the record for winning the most Filmfare Awards in that category. He was awarded the "Lata Mangeshkar Award" by the Madhya Pradesh government and from that year onwards, the Madhya Pradesh Government initiated a new award called the "Kishore Kumar Award" for contributions to Hindi cinema. Wikipedia.org, Source: Article
