Legends
A Billion Hearts Beat For Awarding Bharat Ratna to Kishore Kumar
Kishore Kumar is a legend who has entertained billions of music lovers across the world across generations. Can you believe it that he actually started his career in 1946 before we became independent as a country. He passed away in 1987 and still generations born after his death have grown up listening to his songs. Such is the impact of legends like him which transcends across time and space. Although Kishore Kumar has won hearts of millions of music lovers, he has not received any awards of national stature.
Suresh Kumar from Indra Travels started uniting music lovers across the world to support honoring him with Bharat Ratna. So here is your opportunity to participate in the cause by signing this online petition.
http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/bharat-ratna-for-kishore-kumar
Kishore Kumar fans have made a Facebook group MISSION : BHARAT RATNA FOR KISHORE KUMAR to spread the message and this is also supported by the Facebook group of Amit Kumar fans – Celebrating the success of Amit Kumar.
Famous director-choreographer Farah Khan has also signed the petition.
Kishore Kumar’s son, Amit Kumar, who is also a legend, said
I’ll be indeed very happy if my father receives this award
Couple of days back on 31st July, Union Minister and Singer Babul Supriyo tweeted supporting the campaign that he had been trying for this for some time, and hopefully, the mission would be successful this year. His tweet also found support from famous film personalities like Tabassum.
Absolutely•I have been trying that for some time•Hopefully we shall succeed this year•Amen https://t.co/7j3D43pU2g
— Babul Supriyo (@SuPriyoBabul) July 31, 2016
Parallel to the online petition, a mass signature campaign is being started from 4th Aug on the 87th Birthday of the Legend, across the country including one at Kolkata Tollygunge statue, at Khandwa, at Rajasthan, at Punjab – Patiala KK fans club and at Burdwan Town Hall by Burdwan Kishore Kumar Fan Club, and many more other places.
Chandan Ray, a Gangulian Fan from Kolkata thinks that, both in terms of popularity and versatility, Kishore Kumar is the brightest star in the sky of national entertainment industry for almost 70 yrs
Rajdeep Mukherjee, a die hard Amit Kumar fan and founder of the Facebook fans forum “Celebrating the success of Amit Kumar” says, that getting the Bharat Ratna Award for Kishore Kumar would be the best possible tribute to the Ganguly family on behalf of all the Gangulian Fans all over the world
Samrat Bose, a diehard fan of Kishore Kumar believes that millions of Indians are indebted to him, and it is high time to payback him for what Kishore did for India
Indrani Mukherjee Bhasin from Delhi wonders if any versatile artist have ever born in India with so much of multifaceted talents as an Actor, Comedian, Director, Scriptwriter, Composer, Lyricist, Stage Performer and above all the an ever great Singer
Shuman Chatterjee from Assam, who had published his thesis on Kishore Kumar says that, awarding BHARAT RATNA to a multifaceted messiah like KISHOREDA would be an honour in turn for the Award itself
Rahul Trivedi, a follower of the Legend states that, Its a battle to get crown for the uncrowned Emperor of Indian film music, Kishore Kumar
Anirban Dutta, the founder member of Celebrating The Success of Amit Kumar sees it as an opportunity to connect public for this mass movement. He said this inspired the formation of Bharat Ratna for Kishore Kumar group on Facebook.
We fully support this endeavour and would love to see Bharat Ratna for more music legends.
