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Asha Bhosle recalls her enslaved with Kishore Kumar. (Photo: Asha Bhosle/Instagram)
Asha Bhosle and Kishore Kumar person collaborated connected galore evergreen tracks, including “Ek Main Aur Ek Tu,” “Pyar Ka Dard Hai,” and “Suniye Kahiye,” among others. Their travel began with playful teasing and shared struggles earlier they roseate to fame arsenic legendary playback singers. In a caller interview, Bhosle reminisced astir her cherished moments with Kumar, who ever treated her similar a younger sister.
Asha Bhosle precocious sat down for a peculiar interrogation with Amrita Rao and her hubby RJ Anmol astatine the iconic Mahalakshmi Studio. This was the aforesaid workplace wherever she was rejected astatine the opening of her career. Sharing her story, the vocalist said, “Kishore Da and I were excessively caller erstwhile we sang songs for a movie called Muqqadar. He was precise quirky. Once we were singing a opus which went like, ‘Ek, do, teen, chaar, baago mein aayi bahaar.’ In Marathi for Do, they accidental Don, truthful I sang it similar that. Ever since that, helium named maine Don and would ever marque amusive of maine by recalling that. I was precise acrophobic of him due to the fact that helium would ever tease me. He would pack up against maine with the chorus singers. After a point, I started to springiness it back. He said, ‘Tu bhi pakki hai’ and we became friends.”
Bhosle besides recalled the clip erstwhile she on with Kumar was rejected by a recordist. She said, “Back past the mic utilized to beryllium immense and they started the signaling rather late. There was a recordist called Robin Chatterjee, and the euphony manager loved us, helium was Khemchand Prakash. When we started to sing, Chatterjee said, ‘This won’t work. They don’t person bully voice, telephone different artiste.’ We heard it and we left, and went to Mahalakshmi station. It was rather precocious and we were starving. We were not feeling good. We got immoderate nutrient and chai.”
She added, “Kishore da was upset, but I was positive. I did archer him that time that helium volition go a large artiste. A mates of years later, we went to grounds again. We had go known faces. Coincidently, the aforesaid recordist was contiguous determination too. When we went there, Kishore da looked astatine him and told me, ‘Asha, villain is here.’ I didn’t care, but Kishore da said I volition spell talk to him. He said, ‘I won’t sing if helium is the recordist.’ I stopped him. I said, ‘Dada, this is not right, we should ne'er snatch someone’s job.’ Kishore da reminded maine of what helium had done to us. I said, ‘The clip was not right.’ But yet, Kishore da went and yelled astatine him. It is each destiny.”
Asha Bhosle past shared Kishore Kumar’s temper could beryllium judged by his clothes. He said, “He was precise naughty. He was all-in-one man. He was a filmmaker, euphony director, singer, writer, actor, everything. Its precise hard to lucifer his skills. Whenever helium would come, I would justice his temper by his attire. If helium wore a cap, with a achromatic kurta and dhoti, it meant helium was successful a bully mood. But if helium came successful a lungi and messy hair, I would debar talking to him. Then helium would travel and archer me, ‘Asha maine jaani tere mann ki bhasha,’ and I would ignore. He treated maine similar his younger sister.”
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