death_date death_place years_active birth_place children relatives name native_name birth_date spouse image article_title birth_name occupation
13 october 1987 bombay , maharashtra , india 1946 -- 1987 khandwa , central provinces and berar , british india amit kumar sumit kumar ashok -rrb- sati devi -lrb- sister -rrb- see ganguly family see kumar mukherjee-samarth family -lrb- brother -rrb- anoop kumar -lrb- brother kishore kumar কিশোর কুমার 4 august 1929 ruma -lrb- 1960 -- 1969 -rrb- yogeeta bali -lrb- 1975 -- guha 1978 -rrb- leena chandavarkar -lrb- 1980 -- 1987 ; his thakurta death -rrb- -lrb- 1950 -- 1958 -rrb- madhubala kishore-kumar 0.jpg kishore kumar
 abhas kumar ganguly singer producer , director , screenwriter , lyricist , composer , actor , film
kishore kumar

kishore kumar -lrb- 4 august 1929 -- 13 october 1987 -rrb- was an indian film playback singer , actor , lyricist , composer , producer , director , screenplay writer and scriptwriter .
he is considered as one of the most successful playback singers of the hindi film industry .
apart from hindi , he sang in many indian languages including bengali , marathi , assamese , gujarati , kannada , bhojpuri , malayalam , odia , and urdu .
he has also sung in private albums in several languages especially in bengali which are noted as all time classics .
he won 8 filmfare awards for best male playback singer and holds the record for winning the most filmfare awards in that category .
he was awarded the `` lata mangeshkar award '' by the madhya pradesh government and from that year onwards , the madhya pradesh government initiated a new award called the `` kishore kumar award '' for contributions to hindi cinema .
