He attempted once again to enter the world of cinema, landing in Bombay armed with 60 ready songs. He married in the meantime, and his wife’s illness compelled him to leave the army.Īnand Bakshi remained unemployed for some time after, utilizing his time writing poetry and song lyrics. He served for another four years as an automobile electrician in the EME (The Corps of Electrical and Mechanical Engineers). When his efforts did not prove to be fruitful, he decided to return to the army. He subsequently came to Bombay, where he started looking for work in tinsel town. In his spare time, he also wrote poems for publication in small community journals.Īfter three or four years in the army, Bakshi was forced by family circumstances to seek a discharge. Placed in the Signal Corps, he worked at the telephone exchange service. He was eventually enlisted as a sepoy in an army recruitment office in Lucknow. He wandered between Delhi, Poona and Lucknow in search of employment. Bakshi finished his schooling in Rawalpindi, but he dropped out before completing his matriculation.įollowing the Partition, Bakshi came over to the newly formed nation of India with his family in October 1947. He grew up with his grandfather, a jailor by profession. His mother, Sumitra Bali, died when he was hardly six years old. Entertainment Ahead of Abhishek Bachchan film, revisiting Bob Biswas' chilling presence in Kahaani.Anand Prakash Bakshi was born on 21 July 1930 in Rawalpindi.Cities Petrol price in Delhi slashed by Rs 8 as VAT reduced to 19.4%.Cities Elgaar case: Bombay HC allows Sudha Bharadwaj's default bail plea, refuses for eight co-accused.Calling the legendary singer his “friend” with whom he had worked on several occasions, the 87-year-old writer admitted that Kishore Kumar was the kind of person with whom you couldn’t be “angry or upset for too long”. The whole charade was done for the “producer to spend money and get tea for all the musicians and the staff”. Gulzar clarified that the tea was not important for the singer. Paying us no heed, he went to get the recording done,” he writes. Finally, when Abdul returned, Kishoreda immediately declared, ‘Okay, let’s record.’ ‘Why, don’t you want tea?’ we asked.
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“Every time we tried coaxing Kishoreda, ‘Let’s go, Dada, let’s get the recording done, Abdul - his driver who had gone out to fetch the tea - will be here soon’, he would counter with, ‘Let Abdul come. And after an endless wait, when the tea finally arrived, he went ahead with the recording without even having a sip of it.
In another instance, Kishore Kumar halted the recording of songs for a film called Bharosa to demand tea. If nothing else, this underscores the immense effort and planning required to live a life of absurdities,” writes the veteran lyricist. Kishoreda simply opened the cupboard, stepped in and disappeared! Leaving the producer waiting for him outside the open doors of the contraption. “He used to have this astounding cupboard that hid a secret staircase within. Once a producer went to the singer-actor’s house to seek a meeting but as Kishore Kumar was not in a mood to talk to him, he “simply opened his cupboard, stepped in and disappeared!” In fact, one of Kishore Kumar’s favourite things to do was “to land his producers in trouble”, Gulzar writes in the memoir, published by Penguin Random House India. Not only directors, many producers were also at the receiving end of Kishore Kumar’s mischief. Also Read | 50 years of Anand: When Dharmendra was upset with Hrishikesh Mukherjee for casting Rajesh Khanna, drunk dialled him all night
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