DHAKA: One of the greatest singers of Indian cinema Kishore Kumar features on Monday’s Google Doodle as the search engine celebrate the legend’s 85th birth anniversary. The Google doodle has a smiling face of the legendary singer.

The doodle pays tribute to the versatility of the multi-faceted talent, who was a successful singer, writer, producer and actor.

His son Amit Kumar, who is also a singer, is happy with Google doodle’s gesture. “Fabulous…What a great gesture from Google, surely this proves that ‘He is a man for all seasons’,” he said.

Kishore Kumar donned many hats during his illustrious career as playback singer, lyricist, actor, producer, director, composer and scriptwriter. Though born in a Bengali family, Kishore Kumar dolled out tunes in a number of languages including Bengali, Hindi, Marathi, Assamese, Kannada, Bhojpuri, Gujarati, Malayalam, Urdu and Oriya.

Kishore Kumar began his career by working as a chorus singer at Bombay Talkies. He made his first onscreen appearance in ‘Shikari’, his brother’s film.

He was offered a number of opportunities but he was not very interested in an acting career. He played the lead role in ‘Andolan’. Bimal Roy’s ‘Naukri’, ‘Musafir’, ‘New Delhi,’ ‘Aasha,’ ‘Padosan’ were some of his other films.

Source: indianexpress.com

BDST: 1215 HRS, AUG 04, 2014