Celebs attend KK's funeral
B-town bids final goodbye to KK: Bollywood personalities made sure to bid farewell to KK. Mourning the demise of the playback singer, his contemporaries thronged the Versova crematorium to pay their last respects. The singer's last rites were performed today at Mumbai's Versova Hindu crematorium in the presence of family members and close friends from the music fraternity. A slew of Bollywood personalities such as Javed Akhtar, Vishal Bhardwaj, Alka Yagnik among many others were seen in bidding an emotional goodbye to late singer KK, on Thursday.
Others who were seen included singers Shreya Ghoshal, Shankar Mahadevan, Abhijeet Bhattacharya and Rekha Bhardwaj were seen at the cremation ground, where KK's mortal remains were taken for cremation.
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Abhijeet Bhattacharya at KK's funeral
Shreya Ghoshal at KK's funeral
Salim Merchant at KK's funeral
Javed Ali at KK's funeral
Mini Mathur at KK's funeral
Alka Yagnik at KK's funeral
Javed Akhtar at KK's funeral
Shankar Mahadevan at KK's funeral
KK's wife Jyoti and their son Nakul were seen at the cremation ground with their relatives. According to reports, the last rites for singer KK, whose real name was Krishnakumar Kunnath, began at the Versova Hindu Crematorium on Thursday afternoon. They were performed by his son.
KK passed away in Kolkata late on Tuesday night. He was 53. He was in the city of joy to perform at a function in Nazrul Manch organised by the Gurudas College.
It was learnt that KK felt sick while he was performing. After returning to his hotel, the singer complained of uneasiness following which he was rushed to a hospital, where the doctors declared him brought dead.
Born on August 23, 1968, KK recorded songs in multiple languages including Hindi, Bengali, Assamese, Malayalam, Tamil and Telugu, among others.
Several Kolkata-based singers have expressed their grief over the sudden demise of KK, who will be remembered for songs like 'Pyaar Ke Pal', 'Yaaron', 'O Meri Jaan', among many others.
-- with agency inputs
