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“Tadap tadap ke is dil see aah nikalti rahi…”
With the music world grappling with another loss, the sudden demise of popular singer KK can be heard across the country. Singer of many languages including Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Oriya, Bengali, Assamese and Gujarati and singer of many genres with raga on all of them Krishnakumar Kunath popular as KK, low key as great singer was a singer. public life.
His long list of super-hit numbers (it’s hard to miss the flop) is inversely proportional to his social media presence and networking skills. The Delhi-born singer to Malayali parents, believed in doing what he did, speaking for them, not in his melodious voice. Originally a family man, in fact, it was on the suggestion of his wife that he decided to relocate to Mumbai in 1994. Although his singing talent was discovered when he was barely in class two and he won several interschool singing competitions, it became a real passion and business as he recorded around 3,500 jingles much later.
The move to Mumbai paved the way for a stellar innings that might not have started off with a bang as he sang a small part of ‘Chhod Aaye Hum’ from Gulzar’s ‘Maachis’. He emerged as a full-fledged playback singer with AR Rahman’s hit songs ‘Kalluri Saale’ and ‘Hello Dr’. From Qadir’s Kadal Desam. Strawberry Kanne from Tamil film Minasara Kanavu was a chartbuster. ‘Tadap Tadap’ from Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s film ‘Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam’ firmly established him as a singer in Bollywood. He never gets tired of narrating the story of how he recorded the song early in the morning, when Mumbai sleeps for a while and the atmosphere is perfect for soulful singing. If this line resonates like ‘Agar mile khuda toh, poochounga khuda, jism mujhe de ke mitti ka, she sa dil kyun banaya’, some people can escape the ruckus of the goose.
But then Keke never sang the song without realizing it, lending it a melodious high with an equally wide range internally and in his God-given voice. Peppy, bright, nostalgic and of course, myriad romantic songs, as singer Shreya Ghoshal tweeted, “The voice of love is gone.” Plus, there was a voice that suited every star, be it Salman Khan, Shah Rukh Khan, Akshay Kumar or Ranveer Singh. His song ‘Tu Hi Meri Shab Hai’ picturized on Emraan Hashmi became a love song.
Actually, the name of a romantic raga and the voice of more than 500 Hindi songs is his. ‘Kya Mujhe Pyar Hai’, ‘Dil Ibadat’, ‘Tu Jo Mila’, ‘Zara Sa’, ‘Dola Re’ and Ek made her sing a lot with the inspiration of ‘Yeh Hausle’ from ’83’. Srijit Mukherji’s ‘Sherdil’, in which he reunited with Gulzar, will go down as his last recorded song, while we get to hear him in another thriller, Lost this year.
This realization, ‘you have to do what you believe in’ came early in life while doing a strange job as a ‘marketing man’ and made many dreams come true. Alas, when she breathed her last after a concert in Kolkata, Sapna turned young. ‘Zindagi Do Pal Ki’ definitely deserved many more moments to enrich our lives even more. Still, ‘we, whether we live tomorrow or not. Tomorrow will remember these moments… Who can forget this evergreen voice that, as Arjun Rampal rightly said, “Filled our hearts with love.”