His name however became most closely associated with patriotic songs including Mere Desh Ki Dharti in Manoj Kumar’s film Upkaar, the song won National Award for him. His voice was the most highest vocal in Bollywood.In a career spanning five decades, his repertoire extended to songs in Hindi as well as various regional languages.
Till to date, there is many clones of Mohd Rafi, Kishore Kumar and Mukesh but there is none close clone to his voice. For Punjabi movies he has given his voice to Varendra, Mehar Mittal, Prem Nath and many more. He remained as one of the most popular singer in the Bollywood who has given his voice to almost all of the popular heroes like Dilip Kumar, Shammi Kapoor, Raj Kapoor, Dev Anand, Shahsi Kapoor, Biswajeet, Raj Kumar, Dharmendra, Amitabh Bahchcan, Manoj Kumar, Vinod Khanna, Shatrughina Sinha and many more. Mahendra Kapoor is one of the golden era singers when Mohd Rafi, Kishore Kumar, Mukesh and Manney Dey was ruling the main platform of playback singers of the bollywood. He was survived by his wife, children, children-in-law and grandchildren. On 27 September 2008, Kapoor died following a cardiac failure. His son Rohan Kapoor is an actor and singer, who acted in a few films in the 1980s such as Yash Chopra's Faasle (1985) and Love 86 (1986), and Prakash Mehra's Imandaar, and later did stage shows together with his father. Kapoor was married and had three daughters and also one son. 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. In Marathi he was very popular for being the voice of Dada Kondke in all his movies.
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He also performed the title song for the TV series Mahabharat. Kapoor sung in a large number of Indian languages, and is the playback singer who has performed in the largest number of in Gujarati, Punjabi, Bhojpuri and Marathi movies. Mahendra Kapoor also sang the Doha's, mantras, chopaiyan and also Title track of Mahabharat 1988 TV series. Manoj Kumar, one of the lead stars refused to use Talat's voice for him and the song was re-recorded with Kapoor replacing Talat. The song was "Kaisi Haseen Aaj Baharon Ki Raat" from the 1967 film "Aadmi", which was originally recorded as a duet with Rafi and Talat Mehmood. Mahendra Kapoor also sang a duet with Mohammed Rafi. 'Doli', 'Ek Nazar', 'Admi Aur Insaan', 'Sangam', 'Tawaif' are also quite popular. Most of the songs sung by Mahendra Kapoor are famous, whether they are from B R Chopra movies or Manoj Kumar's movies. Some of the songs on the album are "Chori Chori Chalo!!"(Original, Hoorray! Hoorray! by Boney M), "O Meri Champe Ki Daali". He was asked by the group Boney M to sing their songs in Hindi with Musarat from Pakistan, which resulted in the Pop Album M-3. He was the first Indian playback singer to record music in English. Kapoor had a very large vocal range, and he is sometimes known as The Vibrant Voice of India. Chopra's films (Dhool Ka Phool, Gumrah, Waqt, Hamraaz, Dhund and Nikaah) and for Manoj Kumar (Upkaar, Purab Aur Paschim).
Some of Kapoor's most notable songs were the ones he performed in B.R. Shantaram's Navrang in 1958, singing Aadha Hai Chandrama Raat Aadhi, under the musical direction of C. Kapoor created a style of his own and won the Metro Murphy All-India singing competition, which led to his debut as a playback singer in V. Jagannath Bua, Ustad Niaz Ahmed Khan, Ustad Abdul Rehman Khan and Pt.Tulsidaas Sharma. At an early age he was inspired by singer Mohammed Rafi but he started learning classical music under classical singers like Pt.
Mahendra Kapoor was born in Amritsar, but soon moved to Mumbai. Mahendra Kapoor (9 January 1934 - 27 September 2008), one of Hindi cinema's most prominent singers, on his 9th death anniversary.