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Shoojit Sircar, who’s working relentlessly on his ambitious Kishore Kumar’s bio-pic has chanced upon some startling facts on the legendary eccentric genius. Do any of Kishore Kumar’s fans know he had partly financed Satyajit Ray’s career-making directorial debut Pather Panchali? A fact that Kishore never tired of reminding Ray about whenever they bumped into one another in Kolkata. Says Sircar, “Kishore Kumar never stopped preening about this fact to close friends, ‘Do you know India’s greatest film Pather Panchali could’ve never been made if it wasn’t for me”. He loved to see himself as a patron of the fine arts. In fact, some of the films that Kishore Kumar directed like Door Gagan Ki Chaon Mein reflected the sensitivities of Ray.” Thanks to the active and unconditional support of the Ganguly family Sircar’s bio-pic, which he starts shooting in the middle of next year, will reflect the unknown side of Kishore Kumar. “We’ve seen enough of the eccentric side. Now we’ll see the sensitive side of the man who sang numbers as deeply moving as Chingari koi bhadke and Mere naina sawan bhaado and who patronized Satyajit Ray’s cinema.” In fact it’s not just the singing-maverick’s family which has opened its doors to Shoojit’s ambitious project. Apparently, even the Ray family is all for it.
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