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Mahendra Kapoor
Born	January 9, 1934(1934-01-09)
Origin	Amritsar, India
Died	September 27, 2008
Occupation(s)	Singer
Instrument(s)	Vocalist
Years active	1956–1999

Mahendra Kapoor (January 9, 1934, Amritsar, Punjab, India - September 27, 2008, Mumbai, India) was an Indian playback singer.

In a career spanning five decades, his repertoire extended to 25,000 songs in various regional languages ^[1], including memorable hits like ‘Chalo ek baar phir se Ajnabi ban jayen hum dono’ (Gumrah), ‘Neele gagan ke taale’ (Hamraaz), and in various language, but he became synonymous with patriotic songs, with Mere Desh Ki Dharthi', in Manoj Kumar’s film Upkaar ^[2]

1 Biography
2 Notable songs
3 References
4 External links

Biography

Mahendra Kapoor was born in Amritsar, but soon moved to Mumbai. He was trained by Mohammed Rafi in singing and won the All-India singing competition, which lead to his debut as a playback singer in V. Shantaram’s Navrang in 1958, singing Aadha Hai Chandrama Raat Aadhi, under the music direction of C. Ramchandra ^[1].

He sang many hit songs of yesteryears most notable being those for B.R. Chopra's Films (Dhool Ka Phool, Gumrah, Waqt, Hamraaz, Dhund etc.) and for actor/producer Manoj Kumar (Upkaar, Purab Aur Paschim etc.)

Mahendra Kapoor is well known in the Marathi movies for being the playback singer for Dada Kondke in all his movies. In spite of being associated with Dada Kondke's colloquial style his singing for Marathi movies was not limited to Dada Kondke's movies only. His son Rohan Kapoor was an actor in a few films in the 1980s such as Yash Chopra's Faasle (1985) and Love 86 (1986), and later his stage shows alongwith his father.

On September 27, 2008, he died following a cardiac failure, and had not keeping well and suffering from heart ailment for long, he is survived by his wife, three daughters and a son ^[3].