As far as I remember, it's been around 5 years...since I last cried. By cried, I mean I cried literally, in an emotional state, with tears coming out of my small eyes.
2 days back, I was sitting on youtube, searching for Kishore Kumar's live performance and studio recording videos, and got hold of quite a few of them, but could not see all of them that day. Then yesterday night, I was narrating my father about the few videos which I was able to see. My father, in reply, told me that he had actually seen Kishore Kumar recording a song, right in front of him. The movie for which the song was being recorded was "Begunah" and was made by Mr. Ram Maheshwary, a distant relative of mine, but the movie never released. So my father had the opportunity to see the legend Kishore da recording a song in front of him. That day, Kishoreda showed one more of his genius avatar - the studio was booked only till 5pm. Kishoreda arrived at 4:45pm, listened the tune of the song just once from Rajesh Roshan, and recorded the song in his first take, in 3 minutes flat, while the female singer Sadhana Sargam had been practising that song for 2 and a half weeks! So I always feel that other singers like Rafi, Manna Dey and all may be good in their own way, but they came nowhere near the legend Kishoreda.
So this morning, I again searched the youtube for all his videos, his live performances, studio recordings, filmfare performances and everything else. My father, brother, and I started viewing the videos, and soon after, they both went for some work. I started watching them one by one....and then in one of the videos, suddenly, a person commented - "Kishoreda ab hamare beech nahi rahe. Unka dehant 13 October 1987 ko hua..." and in an instant tears filled my eyes... Why did Kishoreda have to die? Why could I not meet him? Why could I not get the opportunity of meeting the legend...the best singer the world has ever seen? I remembered that the last I had cried was around maybe 5 years back, when I must have been in class 7 or class 8....and after that, today. But then, I composed myself again, and recollected the fact that Kishoreda is actually God sent messenger, and perhaps, very few chosen people actually have the opportunity to meet such people.
JAI KISHOREDA!
