There is something about Kishor Da

Knowing the unknown about Kishor Da:

1. Kishore Kumar and started his cinema career as a chorus singer at Bombay Talkies, where Ashok Kumar was a star. His first film as an actor was Shikari (1946), in which Ashok Kumar played the lead role.
2. Music director Khemchand Prakash gave him a chance to sing the song Marne ki duayen kyon mangu for the film Ziddi (1948).
3. Kishore Kumar's last song a day before he died was Guru O Guru, a duet with Asha Bhosle, for the film Waqt ki Aawaz composed by Bappi Lahiri.
4. Kishore Kumar produced and directed a movie named "Badhti Ka Naam Daadhi" in 1978.
5. During the Indian Emergency, Sanjay Gandhi asked Kishore Kumar to sing for a Congress rally in Mumbai, but Kishore Kumar refused. As a result, the Government put a ban on playing Kishore Kumar songs on the All India Radio or television. But Kishore Kumar refused to apologize. Finally, the ban was lifted after some prominent producers and directors lobbied against it.
6. Kishore Kumar stopped singing for Amitabh Bachchan in the mid-1980s, after Amitabh didn't do a guest appearance in a film produced by him. He also stopped singing for the actor Mithun Chakraborty, after Yogeeta Bali divorced him and married Mithun.
7. His interview with Pritish Nandy can be found at http://www.geocities.com/~sm0e/R-kishoreInterview.txt