Millions of hearts broke with KK's passing. But his resounding music legacy lives on. Here's a flashback to the singer looking back at some of his most iconic songs.
🎥 Mihir Joshi
🎥 Mihir Joshi
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00:00I've never wanted an award
00:02Maybe after I'm dead, you can give me one
00:08I sung that song, you know, actually
00:10after singing Ding Dong, can you believe it?
00:12I did Ding Dong for Anu Malik
00:14Alright? And I'm like, spritey and all
00:16like, full tapori and all
00:18And Mahesh Bhet looks at me, kya ga ke aayo?
00:20Tapori gaana, chalo bahar
00:22Acha abhi toh gaana kar rahe hain, dub
00:24He started talking about very morose, morbid things
00:26And I'm thinking, what is he doing to me?
00:28Good mood? Mood khaab kar diya
00:30Phir pata chala gaana kya jab
00:32Mood mein kisa, maine kisa hai, ab bahot chalu ho
00:34Toh kirti hai ki, yaar tera mood
00:36Nahin toh aadha ghatar lagta hai tereko extra
00:38Toh he just got me into the mood because
00:40A song like Aawar Apan has to be
00:42You have to feel, you know, very very
00:44Desolate, very very alone
00:46That space has to be there
00:48Correct
00:50Na ho iss baar kahin koi
00:54Khaab jala hai
00:56Khaab jala hai
00:58Seene mein
01:00Remember I was nominated for Filmfare Awards for Aawar Apan and
01:02Tu Aashqi
01:04I've never won one, but that's okay
01:06What's up with that Filmfare people?
01:08It's cool, no, it's not with them
01:10The problem lies here
01:12It's all here, I've never wanted an award
01:14I'll be very dead honest, you know
01:16In life, you have to want something for you to get it
01:18You know what, it's like that
01:20We were just talking, I just saw when I entered here
01:22He's a big Led Zeppelin fan
01:24I don't think they ever won a Grammy while they were performing
01:26And they got like a Grammy award much later
01:28Yes, maybe after I'm dead you can give me one
01:30No, no, they were alive when they got the Grammy
01:38It's one of my favourite songs
01:40I remember we did a song with Vishal Shekhar
01:42Kaafi kahaaniya bhiche jhudi hain, kabaristan ke saath hai studio
01:44Okay
01:46Problem ho rahi thi, main kaafi baar zikr kar chuka hu
01:48Par abhi kaafi zara nahi log hota hai aur waqt
01:50So we couldn't record this song for a bit, you know
01:52So we went out
01:54Kabar mein jaake badge koi baate kar rahe hain
01:56Aapas mein, little prayer
01:58I said, let me just do this song, I love this song
02:00The backup vocals and all are fantastic
02:02Behind, you know
02:04Clinton and Dominique and friends had done a superb job
02:06And I just had to sit on it
02:08And take a ride, you know
02:10That's what I thought, and I just loved it
02:14In 2004, there's a song
02:16Which people
02:18I know you've sung in multiple languages
02:20And this is one of those Tamil songs
02:22Which still works like a boss
02:24I mean, in Mumbai, whenever there are
02:26Parties, the song plays, everybody goes
02:28Ape sh**
02:30This is insane, you know what I'm talking about
02:32In fact, I must have done it
02:34Four times on stage, live, I don't know
02:36But it's a beautiful song
02:40Yeah, I love this song, it's got a great energy
02:42Did you know he sang this one?
02:44I did not, good god
02:46Phenomenal stuff man, phenomenal
02:50Yeah
02:56Oh yeah, there was a big
02:58There was a little sensuous kind of
03:00My
03:02I oomph song
03:08Then Tadap Tadap happened in 99
03:10Which is the best thing that could have happened to me
03:12And it was such a massive song
03:14It was a massive song
03:16This is a big, humongous song
03:18I hadn't done anything earlier like that
03:20That must have been like
03:22A massive song in terms of, you know
03:24Helping you out in terms of getting into live
03:26Spaces, right?
03:28It did, you know, but me being the kind of guy that I am
03:30That I run away from media, as such
03:32I've been a very shy guy
03:34So I didn't really capitalize on it
03:36If I think about it, what was the reason
03:38That I didn't do, I don't know
03:40But I really didn't chase it, in the sense
03:42If I had been
03:44A different personality
03:46A little more outgoing
03:48Then I would have gone there and said
03:50Okay, this is my song and I would have sung it out
03:52Wherever I could, you know, I'd promote it
03:54There's nothing wrong in that
03:56But my mind tells me something else
03:58I have to follow my heart
04:00So I didn't do it
04:02But having said that, without me doing it
04:04It garnered it on its own, you know
04:06That song was so big
04:08So it helped me ride on it by itself
04:10You know, people say, who is it, who is it
04:12People must have found out
04:14It found out
04:16And then after that I did Mujhe Kuch Kahna Hai
04:18I did Aks, Bandai Vindas, Sroli
04:20And I did, over the years I'm saying
04:22I'm just quickly mentioning songs
04:24Because it gave me a whole different identity of myself
04:26You don't have to necessarily
04:28Strike when the thing is hot
04:30You know, because
04:32It's not some kind of industry, I don't believe in it
04:34I'm an artist here
04:36I'm not here just to make money
04:38Or just to ride a success wave
04:40It's not a wave for me
04:42It's a space that I'm in, you know
04:44And I like to be there forever, as long as I'm alive