Kundan Lal Saigal, based at Calcutta's New Theatres studio in the 1930s, was the first great singing star of Indian sound cinema and the template from which Hindi film playback grew. Singing his own songs on screen in an era before playback, he brought a plaintive, classically shaded intimacy to ghazals, bhajans and film songs, and his rendition of the Bhairavi thumri 'Babul Mora' became a touchstone. His voice and phrasing were imitated by nearly every male singer who followed, from Kishore Kumar to Mukesh.

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1946

Jab Dil Hi Toot GayaK. L. Saigal