Kishore Da advised me seriously...Never tell any woman.... Where your money is...Both will disappear at the same time!...read this..!! Pritish Nandy rewinds the memories of his meeting with the Legendary Singer Kishore Kumar...!!! Kishore Kumar knew fully well what he wanted from life...recollects Pritish Nandy...the editor and journalist of the magazine..The Illustrated Weekly ...as he rewinds the memories of his meeting...with the Legendary Singer Kishore Kumar...There were only ten things in his cravings list..1 to 8 was clearly money....9 was fame and recognition....10 was the love of beautiful women..But his problem was that..He hated having to buy them expensive gifts...In fact...He hated having to spend money over them..in any manner whatsoever..He would never buy them dinner..or so he claimed..He would never buy them any gifts...And...most important...he would never tell them where he stacked away his cash..Haha..as the talks between us got more and more open and frank...He opened up more...in his conversations with me...I remember clearly...Kishore Da advised me seriously..Never tell any woman..Where your money is..Both will disappear at the same time!..poof! I never asked him..if that wisdom came from his own personal experience. In fact..I never probed into his life at all..That strengthened the bond more between us.We simply enjoyed each others company..There were just no strings attached at all..In fact..our friendship was largely based on the fact that we really had nothing much to ask of each other..I was not in making movies at that time..I was an editor and a journalist...He was a singer and an actor..director..story writer who loved his profession...but did not enjoy the people he had to work with all the time..In fact...that was his perennial complaint..He hated the movie industry..He thought they were all peculiar, matlabi people who he had to constantly war with to get his rightful dues. He kept complaining to me how his producers never paid him and how his music company never paid him..but all said and done...all together he was a genius...whom if I would not have met in my lifetime...then that would be the biggest regret of my life...He was the most sanest person...that I came across ever in this Industry!..Yes..The sanest indeed!...as this genius was quite well versed in masking his real self..beneath the mask of eccentricity and his whimsical attitude forever...But those who knew him well...they just knew what substance he was made of...The reverse expressions...and the gigantic laughter..all could not be sufficient to judge this genius merely on the basis of its appearance as the world saw it...Kishore Kumar was much much more than all this...One who enters his shoes and psyche...Only he knows what he was made of...for the rest of the world...he always will stay as an unsolved puzzle...An enigma named Kishore Kumar....!!!
Posted on: Sat, 17 Jan 2015 04:34:26 +0000
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