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  • Re: Why was Kishore Kumar denied the National Award?

    From prashant kadam@21:1/5 to All on Fri Jul 8 11:04:16 2022
    On Friday, November 9, 2001 at 3:18:17 AM UTC+5:30, JK wrote:
    Why was Kishore Kumar denied the National Award? All the other old
    school singers, Rafi, Mukesh, Manna Dey, Mahendra Kapoor,Hemant Kumar
    all won, but one of the greatest of them all never won! Was Kishore
    ever nominated? Is there some kind of list available with these
    details?
    Jai
    No Doubt , the Best Male Singer India ever produced was Kishore Kumar ( the only singer to sing in the straight Actor's Note ). Well he had problems with the Income tax department from 1960, then he was barred from All India Radio association coz he
    denied singing for free for Sanjay Gandhi. It had to do with the government in power which was Congress ( Anti hindu, corrupt , dynasty focused, no proper leader to take care of the house India , Pakistan infiltrating from the north , China from the east,
    Nehru busy with his girlfriend, couldn't manage to take care of the house.) Sooner or later Justice will prevail.

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  • From Santhanakrishnan Srinivasan@21:1/5 to Abhay Jain on Tue Jul 19 08:11:24 2022
    On Friday, November 9, 2001 at 8:58:29 AM UTC+5:30, Abhay Jain wrote:
    "JK" <JaiKu...@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:c00b55b8.01110...@posting.google.com...
    Why was Kishore Kumar denied the National Award? All the other old
    school singers, Rafi, Mukesh, Manna Dey, Mahendra Kapoor,Hemant Kumar
    all won, but one of the greatest of them all never won! Was Kishore
    ever nominated? Is there some kind of list available with these
    details?

    Jai
    It may have something to do with him being in trouble
    with the income tax department in 60s. In fact he owed
    the most amount. Other personality in trouble was
    Mala Sinha on which Kaka Hathrasi even had a
    parody line:
    'Mala Ke Male Mile Saat Lakh Ke Note"
    Abhay Jain


    Kishore Kumar during the Emergency refused part take in a program organized by Sanjay Gandhi and Youth Congress), and as an action against him AIR banned playing Kishore Kumar songs - till the Janata government was formed. (https://www.youtube.com/
    watch?v=pe14p_UwSjo) Probably this was a reason why subsequent Congress governments did not consider giving him an award. Other governments were around for a short time, during Kishore Kumar's life time.
    S Santhanakrishnan

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