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Gulshan Kumar Dua (5 May 1951 – 12 August 1997), [2] was an Indian film and music producer and businessman who was the founder of the Super Cassettes Industries Limited (T-Series) music label [3] in the Bollywood industry.
• On 12 August 1997, when Gulshan Kumar gave a regular visit to a Shiva Temple in Andheri, Mumbai, two men hiding in the hutment colony near the temple fired 3 bullets at Kumar who fell to the ground and tried to crawl into one of the huts and asked a woman to shut the door to keep the killers out.
Jul 1, 2021 · Gulshan Kumar, the owner of T-Series, was shot dead while coming out of a temple in Mumbai on August 12, 1997. The killers, including Rauf, had been keeping a tab on Kumar’s movement for over two months before they fired bullets at him.
Jul 1, 2021 · Former music moghul Gulshan Kumar was shot dead in Juhu, Mumbai on August 12 in 1997. At the time, a few people were arrested and the Sessions Judge at the time, ML Tahilyani, had given a sentence of life imprisonment to Abdul Rauf aka Daud Merchant in 2002 of April.
Merchant was convicted in the 1997 murder of singer Gulshan Kumar — and was sentenced for life in 2002. Here are five things to know about the Gulshan Kumar murder.
However, Gulshan Kumar was murdered by the Mumbai mafia syndicate D-Company on 12 August 1997. Since then, T-Series has been led by his son Bhushan Kumar and younger brother Krishan Kumar.
Jul 1, 2021 · The Bombay High Court on Thursday upheld the conviction of Abdul Rauf Merchant in the murder case of Gulshan Kumar, founder of T-Series. Abdul Rauf, an aide of gangster Dawood Ibrahim, was sentenced to life imprisonment in 2002 for Kumar’s murder in 1997.
May 5, 2023 · It was T-Series under Gulshan Kumar that first brought the format of audio cassettes to India, effectively ending the rule of India’s ‘grand old music label’ HMV. Kumar sold the cassettes at low price and ‘turned music into business’.
May 5, 2022 · With a sincere looking photo of its owner Gulshan Kumar on every cover, T-Series changed the music business in a way that no one could foresee. Gulshan Kumar, who came from humble beginnings started the company in 1983. Kumar was the son of a fruit vendor, who eventually expanded his business to a juice shop in Daryaganj, Delhi.
May 30, 2022 · Before he was brutally assassinated in August 1997, Gulshan Kumar Rai was the uncrowned king of music production in India. In 1980 he started Super Cassettes Industries whose music label T-Series became the leading record label for Bollywood music through the 1990s.
