Happy Birthday AMIT KUMAR ...

Happy Birthday AMIT KUMAR

Born on 3rd July 1952 He is the son of the Indian singer and actor Kishore Kumar and the Bengali singer and actress Ruma Guha Thakurta. Like his father, Amit loved singing and from childhood used to sing during Durga Pooja functions in Kolkata. Once when he was performing on stage in a Durga Pooja function arranged by Bengali actor Uttam Kumar, people kept requesting more songs and this information reached his mother. She complained to Kishore Kumar that his son was singing "filmy" songs. Hearing that, Kishore Kumar decided to bring him to Bombay.
Kishore Kumar gave his son Amit Kumar a break as child artist in his film Door Gagan Ki Chaon Mein with The song "Aa chalke tujhe, mein leke chaloon" was filmed with Kishore Kumar singing to his eleven-year-old son Amit Kumar
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He has sung many Bollywood and regional film songs since the 1970s and was more actively singing in Indian films from 1970 to 1994 as after death of R. D. Burman in 1994, citing lack of good quality music being composed he withdrew from playback singing.
He came to prominance after the song Bade Ache Lagte Ho from the film Balika Badhu(1976).Later on he sang songs for many movies.1981 film Love Story, won him a Filmfare Award for the duet "Yaad aa rahi hai" with Lata Mangeshkar.