Khandwa/Madhya Pradesh: Kishore Kumar would have been 92 years old had he lived. Fans and officials paid tribute to the legendary singer on the occasion on Wednesday (August 4) by offering milk and jalebis, his favourite dish, at his samadhi near his birthplace here. Khandwa collector Anay Dwivedi and superintendent of police Vivek Singh also offered floral tributes.
The fans demanded that the ancestral house of the late singer in Khandwa be converted into national heritage. “Kishoreda was a Bharat Ratna in its own sense. Instead, his dilapidated house should be converted into national heritage,” Kishore Prerna Manch’s spokesman Sunil Jain when asked about the demand to confer India’s highest civilian award on the versatile singer-actor was quoted as saying by Firstpost.
The 200-year-old property lies in a dilapidated condition because of a dispute among the Ganguly (original surname of the famous actor brothers Ashok Kumar, Kishore Kumar and Anoop Kumar) family members, sources associated with the “Ganguly House” in Bombay Bazar area of Khandwa town were quoted as saying.
Among fans, Pune-based actor-director Jagdish Gayakwad, who visits Khandwa every year on the occasion of the birth anniversary of Kumar, told Firstpost, “I have grown up hearing and singing Kishore Da’s songs and I earn my bread and butter by singing his songs.”
