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Gulshan Kumar’s Biography

In the Bollywood industry the Super Cassettes Industries Limited (T-Series) music label was established by Indian businessman film and music producer Gulshan Kumar Dua. He built T-Series into a leading music label in the 1990s after founding it in the 1980s.

His younger brother Krishan Kumar and son Bhushan Kumar have subsequently taken over the management of T-Series following his passing. Playback vocalists Tulsi Kumar and Khushali Kumar are his daughters.

Gulshan Kumar is very dedicated to Vaishno Devi. He led a free food aid program where free meals are supplied as prasad to all the devotees visiting the Vaishno Devi Temple due to their traditional faith love and respect for Vaishno Devi. The Baan Ganga area which is positioned between the Vaishno Devi Temple pilgrimage was first begun in 1983. 

The service continues now and is well regarded all over India even after his passing in 1997. The service is now run by his son Bhushan Kumar. Dua changed careers after his family bought a store selling cheap audio cassettes and records which signaled the beginning of a massive music industry.

Gulshan Kumar’s Age

Gulshan Kumar’s birthdate is May 5 1951. Gulshan Kumar’s zodiac sign is Leo. Gulshan Kumar’s caste is Khatri. Gulshan Kumar's death occurred on August 12 1997. He was shot 16 times.

Gulshan Kumar’s Death

On August 12 1997 assailants shot and killed Gulshan Kumar. Abdul Rauf also known as Daud Merchant was sentenced to life in prison in the 2001 case which he contested.

Abdul Rauf's appeal against his life sentence for the August 1997 murder of T-Series founder Gulshan Kumar was dismissed by the Bombay High Court on Thursday July 1. Abdul Rauf alias Daud Merchant was given a life sentence in jail in April 2002 by Sessions Judge ML Tahilyani (as he was known at the time). Rauf had filed an appeal in opposition to it. He was one of the murderers involved in the case. The court also rejected a challenge to the conviction of accused Ramesh Taurani brought by the state of Maharashtra.

On August 12 1997 in Mumbai Gulshan Kumar the proprietor of T-Series was shot and killed as he exited a temple. Before shooting Kumar the killers—which included Rauf—had been monitoring his movements for more than two months. The Dawood Ibrahim gang allegedly ordered this to be done.

August 12 1997: On his way to a temple in Mumbai's Andheri district Gulshan Kumar was shot and killed. He was instantly killed by 16 bullets fired by three assailants. August 30 1997: Nadeem Akhtar Saifee one-half of the musical duet Nadeem-Shravan was charged with murder in the death of Gulshan Kumar. Nadeem said that Kumar had offended him by failing to promote Hai Ajanabi enough. Later the case resulted in Nadeem's acquittal. Since then he has resided in the UK.

October 1997: Ramesh Taurani the proprietor of Tips was also detained on suspicion of encouraging the crime. Taurani is accused of paying the murderers of Gulshan Kumar Rs 25 lakh. But the cops were unable to prove their case in court. The primary opponent of Gulshan Kumar's T-Series at the time was Taurani's Tips Cassettes.

November 1997: 26 people were charged in a 400-page charge sheet that was filed by the police. 15 people were taken into custody. Mohammed Ali Shaikh one of the defendants later became an approver in the matter. According to the police's chargesheet submitted to the sessions court the murderous scheme against Gulshan Kumar was planned in Dubai at the workplace of Dawood Ibrahim's brother Anees.

April 2002: 18 of the 26 defendants were found not guilty. Abdul Rauf was convicted and given a life sentence.
July 1 2021: Abdul Rauf's conviction was upheld by the Bombay High Court. The lower court's decision to free Rauf Merchant's brother Rashid resulted in both of them receiving life sentences. Ramesh Taurani was found not guilty and the court rejected the state government's appeal.

Gulshan Kumar’s Family

Gulshan Kumar Dua's father's name is Chandrabhan he was a fruit juice vendor who plied his trade on the streets of Delhi's Daryaganj neighborhood. Gulshan Kumar was born into a Punjabi Hindu family. His family fled the anti-Hindu violence that occurred during India's 1947 partition and came to Canada as refugees from the Jhang area of West Punjab. Early on Dua began helping his father with his work. 

Gulshan Kumar was a devout worshipper of Shiva and Vaishno Devi in particular. In support of practically all of Hinduism's principal deities he sang a number of sacred and traditional hymns. Gulshan Kumar’s brother's name is Kishan Kumar.

Gulshan Kumar’s Marriage

Sudesh Kumari is a Mumbai-born homemaker who is Indian. She is the spouse of Gulshan Kumar the creator of the T series and a successful businessman and movie producer. Mr. Kumar established the T Series music label in the early 1990s.

Gulshan and Sudesh were wed at a ceremony held in their village in 1975. Three children were welcomed by the couple. Tulsi Kumar is a singer and Khushali Kumar is a fashion designer. It's Bhushan Kumar his son (a businessman).

Gulshan Kumar’s Career

Music Business

The Super Cassettes Industries business which Gulshan Kumar eventually grew into a successful enterprise was his first venture into the audio cassette industry. Then in Noida close to Delhi he started a music production company. Gulshan Kumar began offering bargain-priced cassettes of music in the 1970s in order to mask the costly low-quality audio recordings that well-known music labels were marketing and selling. 

As his company expanded he started selling high-caliber music cassettes to other countries. He quickly attained millionaire status and excelled in the music industry. He relocated to Bombay with the intention of dominating Bollywood the same way he did with music. He introduced incredibly cheap religious music cassettes with the intention of fostering religion among Hindus. He had even created and produced films and television shows about Hindu mythology.

T Series Music Label

Gulshan Kumar founded Super Cassettes Industries Limited (SCIL) which rose to the top of the Indian music industry. He established the T-Series music label a division of the same music business which later rose to become one of India's leading music companies. The biggest music and video publisher and producer in the nation right now is T-Series. 

It publishes new-age albums remixes vintage devotional songs original soundtracks from movies pop hits from the 1990s and pop music from the 1960s. It not only supplies music to 24 nations on six continents accounting for more than 60% of the Indian music market. The largest distribution network in India belongs to T-Series which has over 2500 dealers.

Film Career

Gulshan Kumar movie Lal Dupatta Malmal Ka (1989)

In 1989 a Hindi made-for-television film called Lal Dupatta Malmal Ka was released. Despite only being available as a television film and not being screened in theaters it was a major hit. Anuradha Paudwal Udit Narayan and Mohd. Aziz performed songs that are among the film's most well-known. 

Anand-Milind provided the music for the tracks. Leading roles in it were played by Sahil Chaddha and Veverly. Later that year Sahil and Veverly returned in a sequel named Phir Lehraya Lal Dupatta Malmal Ka.

Gulshan Kumar movie Dil Hai Ki Maanta Nahin (1991)

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In 1991 Mahesh Bhatt and Gulshan Kumar released the romantic comedy Dil Hai Ke Manta Nahin in the Hindi language. Pooja Bhatt the daughter of Bhatt played the film's first significant lead female role with Aamir Khan playing the lead male part. Deepak Tijori made a surprise appearance and Anupam Kher Sameer Chitre and Tiku Talsania also had supporting roles.

Dil Hai Ke Manta Nahin is an unauthorized replica of the 1956 Hindi film Chori Chori starring Raj Kapoor and Nargis as well as the 1934 Hindi classic Chori Chori with Raj Kapoor and Claudette Colbert. Dil Hai Ke Manta Nahin was then recreated as Kadhal Rojavae in Tamil (2000). Also influenced by the same American film was the 2007 Kannada film Hudugaata.

The movie was a financial success helping to launch Pooja Bhatt's career and establishing Aamir Khan as a major actor. Additionally lauded was Nadeem-soundtrack Shravan's for the movie.

Gulshan Kumar movie Sangeet (1992)

Jackie Shroff and Madhuri Dixit play the main characters in the 1992 Hindi film Sangeet (Music) which was directed by K. Vishwanath. In a subsequent film Aasoo Bane Angarey which was released a year later Madhuri Dixit reprised her dual mother and daughter character. 

Sangeet's compassionate portrayal of Dixit was lauded despite the movie's poor box office result and is regarded as one of her best but most underestimated performances. A young orphan who is blind wants to become a successful singer. She embarks on a mission to leave her mark with the aid of another street performer and learns who her real parents are in the process.

Gulshan Kumar movie Bewafa Sanam (1995)

Gulshan Kumar directed and produced the 1995 musical thriller film Bewafa Sanam in Hindi. It features Kiran Kumar Shilpa Shirodkar Aruna Irani Beena Banerjee Shakti Kapoor and his younger brother Krishan Kumar. The story was written by Gulshan Kumar the dialogue was created by Madan Joshi and Sachin Bhowmick wrote the screenplay.

Nikhil-Vinay Amar Utpal Milind Sagar and Raju Singh wrote the soundtrack. The main male voice was Sonu Nigam and the female voices were Anuradha Paudwal and Poornima. For the album's songs 1-1 Udit Narayan Nitin Mukesh and Kumar Sanu contributed their vocals as well. The album gained a lot of traction. Sonu Nigam's song Achha Sila Diya is still well-liked while Udit Narayan and Kumar Sanu performed the uncommon song O Dil Tod Ke Hasti Ho for this movie.

Gulshan Kumar’s Net Worth

T-Series has a $450 million US dollar net worth (about Rs. 3 590 crore). Bhushan Kumar is T-Series' owner. On July 11 1983 Gulshan Kumar started the Indian music record label and motion picture production firm T-Series. T-Series operates a network of 30 channels on YouTube 30 of which have more than 382.3 million subscribers (including Lahari Music). 

There are 13 members of the T-Series YouTube team at the company's headquarters. Gulshan Kumar who passed away founded T-Series. Each year the T-Series channel makes an estimated $35 million USD (about 200 crore Indian rupees) from its YouTube channel. 

Gulshan Kumar’s Awards

• Filmfare Awards Best Film Dil Hai Ki Manta Nahin in 1992 Nominee

8 Unknown Facts about Gulshan Kumar

• Gulshan came from a lowly Punjabi family because his father sold juice in Daryaganj Delhi. Kumar used to assist his father in running the household business.
• He began his company by producing ceiling fans bottled water agarbattis audio cassettes and agarbattis. After his audio cassette business became successful he established his own audio cassette label Super Cassettes Industries Ltd which was eventually renamed T-Series.
• T-Series was initially established in Delhi but after making money Kumar moved his headquarters to Mumbai.
• In Bollywood films he was the one who gave Sonu Nigam Kumar Sanu Anuradha Paudwal and Nadeem-Shravan their major break.
• T-Series released the soundtrack of the Bollywood movie Lallu Ram in 1985.
• He appeared in numerous videos for devotional songs and was an extremely devout man.
• He was fatally shot on August 12 1997 in front of Mumbai's Jeeteshwar Mahadev Mandir.
• At the age of 19 his son Bhushan Kumar assumed control of T-Series following his passing.