Dadamoni would have been 100 today. He was a man of many talents — actor, singer, homoeopathy doctor and a man with a great zest for living.

He was known to be a simple man who went out of his way to help people. Elder brother to the eccentric Kishore Kumar, he was the head of the family and obviously took his duties seriously, once even calling up the Inspector General of Police to find out what sort of man his daughter’s boyfriend was!

Seeing humour in every situation was his way of life. He promptly named his brother Kishore ‘Mohabbat Khan’ when he came home with his third bride. He thought nothing of singing all the way from Breach Candy, in South Mumbai, to his grandson Rahul’s home while giving a lift to Rahul’s wife Kiran.