Bengali-Hindi composer Jeet Ganguly remembers the great Kishore Kumar with mammoth fondness. “If I talk about Kishore Kumar, then actually I will say this first. We make songs, sing songs, look at the notes, the rhythm, what kind of ornamentation is being used in the song, how many movements are there, we say… aha aha, we listen to classical music, how much classical music is learnt. But the most important thing in a song is the soul.”
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This quality of the soulful sonority is what made Kishore unique for Jeet Ganguly. “There is a soul in every song, only a singer can do that magic. No one else can do that. If a singer cannot do it in a song, then the song becomes useless. The feeling that a singer brings to the song is very important. This is the thing that Kishore Da used to bring in the song, that is amazing.”
Raved the composer, “There is no need for me to say anything about Kishore da’s genius. I was not fortunate enough to work with him, but my father (Sri Kali Ganguli) worked with him. The way he has pronounced the words, you should listen to that and hold your breath. So, if we say that all these things are there, then it is not a sadhana of one life. It can be done from many lives; this is the sadhana of Kishore da.”
Jeet also admired Kishore Kumar as an actor. “He was such a great actor. That’s why he performed in the songs also. The way he gave a feeling in any song, be it a sad song, a romantic song, which has comedy in it, call it comedy. So all these things in a singer, Kishore Kumar is the one and only. In ten lifetimes, one Kishore Kumar comes in the entertainment industry. After working for 10 generations, one Kishore Kumar comes. So a complete musician, piano, composer… As a composer also, he composed so many Bengali songs, also composed in Hindi, also wrote lyrics. The soul that he used to give in his songs, that was phenomenal. This is it sir, thank you.”
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