Dilip Kumar Mohammed Rafi Rabindranath Tagore Munshi Premchand Kishore Kumar Vivekananda
Actor, singer, director, music composer and producer, Kishore Kumar made his film debut as a playback singer by imitating his hers K.L. Saigal in Rimjhm (1949). He stormed the box office as an actor who sang his own songs, mostly in slapstick comedies like Musafir and Naukari. After Chalti Ka Naam Gadi, he gained recognition for offbeat humour and for providing a new musical sound to popular film music. His career as India's most versatile playback singer was effictively launched when he became Dev Anand's singing voice with Ziddi and Munimji. Along with composer Kalyanji, he pioneered the use of electronic music in Hindi films and modernised the melody.An effort which blossomed under the partnership with composer R.D.Burman during the 1970s when Hindi film music boasted of some of the most popular charbusters like Yeh shaam mastani, Roop tera mastana, Pyaar deewana hota hai, Woh shaam kuch ajeeb thi and many more. If Rajesh Khanna was able to scale rere heights as a superstar, it was primarily due to the voice of Kishore Kumar that had the nation swooning in rhythem. He also sang for the next superstar, Amitabh Bachchan, too and has some memorable numbers to his credit in films like Sharaabi, Don and Muqaddar Ka Sikandar.
Dilip Kumar Mohammed Rafi Rabindranath Tagore Munshi Premchand Kishore Kumar Vivekananda
Born Narendranath Datta into an upper-middle-class family in Bengal, Vivekananda was educated at a Western-style university where he has exposed to Western philosophy, Christianity, and science. Social reform was given a prominent place in Vivekananda's thought, and he joined the Brahmo Samaj, dedicated to eliminated child marriage and illiteracy and determined to spread education among women and the lower castes.
He later became the most otable disciple of Ramakrishna, who demonstrated the essential unity of all religions. Always stressing the universal and humanistic side of the Vedas as well as belief in service rather than doma, Vivekananda attempted to infuse vigour into Hindu thought, placing less emphasis on the prevailing pacifism and presenting Hindu spirituality to the West.
He was an activating force behind the Vedanta movement in the US and England. In 1893 he appeared in Chicago as a spokesman for Hinduism at the World's Parliament of Religions and so captivated the assembly that a newspaper account described him as "an orator by diving right and undoubtedly the greatest figure at the Paliament".
He founded the Ramakrishna Mission which now has a worldwide organisation. His collected works were published between 1919 and 1922.
