Gulshan Kumar Success Story: Gulshan Kumar, a famous singer, had earned a big and special name in Bollywood and the world of music. Gulshan Kumar, who once became popular by singing bhajans of God, later founded the ‘T Series’ company. His company is the biggest music company in India. However, Gulshan used to sell juice once.
Used to sell juice with father
Gulshan Kumar was born on 5 May 1951 in New Delhi. His father used to run a juice shop in Delhi. Gulshan also used to help his father in this work. However, he was also fond of singing. Later, he fulfilled this hobby of his and also became famous in the world of music.
This is how Gulshan became the ‘Cassette King’
The era of cassettes had begun in India in the 70s. Then Gulshan Kumar started his work by buying a shop selling cassette audio. There he also started singing devotional bhajans. After this, he also started recording songs and started selling songs to people by filling them in blank cassettes. He used to get 25 rupees for one cassette.
The journey from ‘Super Cassettes Industries’ to ‘T-Series’
Soon Gulshan had established himself in the world of music. After this he started ‘Super Cassettes Industries’. Which is today known as T-Series. Let us tell you that T-Series is India’s largest music company. Its value is about Rs 3 thousand crores. Today it is being run by Gulshan’s son Bhushan Kumar.
T-series became famous with devotional songs, also produced films
Gulshan Kumar was a great devotee of Lord Shiva and Mata Vaishno Devi. He gave voice to many famous bhajans. His company T-Series got special and big recognition from devotional songs. After this, a film named ‘Lal Dupatta Malmal Ka’ was produced under T-Series. Which was released in the year 1989. Till now T-Series has produced many films.
T-Series is the second largest YouTube channel in the world
T-Series is also the king of the YouTube world. It is worth mentioning that T-Series is the second largest YouTube channel not only in India but in the whole world. T-Series has more than 270 million (27 crore) subscribers on YouTube.
Gulshan Kumar had a painful death
Gulshan Kumar is no more in this world today. He died a painful death in 1997. He was shot dead by underworld goons with 16 bullets outside Jiteshvar Mahadev temple in Mumbai. His death shook the entire country. The underworld had demanded ransom from Gulshan. But Gulshan refused to pay the ransom.