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Movie : Shahjehan (1946) Singers: Kundanlal Saigal Music: Naushad Lyrics: Majrooh Sultanpuri Picturised on: Kundanlal Saigal Celebrating 114th Birthday of Indian singer and first superstar of the Hindi film industry, Kundanlal Saigal, often abbreviated as K. L. Saigal. In a career of fifteen years, Saigal acted in 36 feature films – 28 in Hindi, seven in Bengali, and one in Tamil. In all, Saigal rendered 185 songs which includes 142 film songs and 43 non-film songs. Saigal's distinctive singing was revered and idolised by the first generation of post-independence Hindi Film playback singers, including Lata Mangeshkar, Kishore Kumar, Mohammad Rafi, and Mukesh. Lata Mangeshkar and Kishore Kumar have even gone on record in an interview that they consider Kundan Lal Saigal to be their musical guru.