Kundan Lal Saigal (1904-1947)

The great Indian singing film star of the 1930s and 1940s

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Saigal

Clubs Men & Orgns.

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Organisations and individuals

involved with promoting and celebrating the golden voice :

The Environment Society of India (ESI), Chandigarh

(SK Sharma, head)

ESI has been engaged in promoting art, heritage and environment in the region for the past several years. It is single-handedly trying to keep alive the memory of the man with the golden voice, who was a household name in the subcontinent and Indian cinema’s first cult figure. Says S.K. Sharma, group president, "Melody is a part of nature. So we are trying to preserve great music."

The ESI has been organising musical functions annually for the past 27 years. The Society organised a grand musical celebration at Tagore Theatre on his Centenary Day. Regular singers of Saigal songs such as R.S. Chopra, Radha Chopra, Bhupinder Singh, Ranjit Singh, J.S. Grewal, R.K. Bali and newcomer Damneet Kaur participated.

The Society, which has brought out silver coins for the occasion, held a similar musical extravaganza in Lahore, home to a legion of his fans.

At the society’s initiative, Punjab University has set up the K.L. Saigal Chair in the Department of Music. Saigal is the first singer and actor to be honoured thus. In 1995, on Saigal’s 91st birthday, it put up an exhibition, "K.L. Saigal: Tansen of 20th Century," at the Government Museum and Art Gallery, Chandigarh. Saigal’s harmonium, the awards he had received and his film contracts were the highlights of the show. The Union Government had released a commemorative Saigal stamp on the occasion.

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