Remembering Kishore Kumar: Twitter pays tribute to the legendary singer on his 86th birthday

If you’ve spent sultry, summer evenings sitting around a battery-operated radio listening to Kishore Kumar songs with your entire family because of constant power cuts, Kumar’s golden, evergreen voice will bring you oodles of nostalgia. [caption id=“attachment_1648783” align=“alignleft” width=“380”] Courtesy: Wikipedia[/caption] That being said, Kishore Kumar’s voice and his entire music repertoire can make anyone nostalgic. Born as Abhas Kumar Ganguly, Kumar started his career as an actor in Shikari (1946) and the first ever song he sung was “Marne ki duayen kyon mangu” for the film Ziddi (1948). He went on to star and sing in highly famous films like Musafir, Chalti Ka Naam Gaadi, and Padosan. The rest, as they say, is history. On the occasion of Kishor Kumar’s 86th birthday (August 4), he was the top trend on Twitter on Tuesday. Here are some of the tweets celebrating the legendary singer’s birthday: