Remembering Bappi Lahiri

Alokesh Lahiri a.k.a Bappi Lahiri, Bollywood’s disco legend, died on Tuesday night. He was 69.

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Bappi Lahiri began to play tabla at the age of 3. Kishore Kumar is the maternal uncle of Bappi Lahiri.

He entered the Guinness Book of World Records for recording over 180 songs for 33 films in 1986.

He joined the BJP in 2014 and contested from Srirampur LS constituency but lost to Kalyan Banerjee of AITC.

His last Bollywood song titled Bhankas was for the 2020 film 'Baaghi 3'.