KK’s kids credit Kapil Sharma Show for reigniting his popularity, daughter Taamara reveals how she coped with his death

She said, “The first two weeks after dad passed away, mom and I couldn’t listen to his songs because it was too hard for us. We would keep crying. The lyrics of his songs felt like he was talking to us. But Nakul started singing so much that we got used to it. Now when I sing, I feel like I’m singing to dad.”

Nakul added, “Initially the vibe in our house was sombre as people would and talk about the same things. When I started singing, everyone started feeling happy. I began singing as a way to uplift everyone’s mood…” He also expressed regret that he never took his father’s advice and sang with him. He said, “I was working on an arrangement of Pal with dad over the last year and a half. Three weeks before he passed away, he heard me singing a bit of it. He was excited! He told me that we would record it after coming back from Kolkata. He used to ask me to sing more but I would tell him that I would do that after learning composition, production and theory on instruments. After dad went, I started singing because I felt that was the only way to connect with him. Slowly, my voice started opening up and my tears gave way into songs.”

Nakul and Taamara also spoke about whether KK was concerned that he wasn’t the go-to playback singer for films anymore, but Nakul said that KK knew that this was a ‘right of passage’, and was fairly open about his career trajectory. In fact, Taamara said, he would often express surprise that he was still as relevant as he was.

Nakul said that after two years of the pandemic, he was excited to get back on stage, and noted that an appearance on The Kapil Sharma Show reignited his popularity. “After that, the craze went even higher,” he said. Taamara added, “Dad didn’t do TV much, but after that, people were so happy to see him.” KK appeared on the episode alongside Shaan and Palash Sen.