Google on Wednesday marked the 114th birth anniversary of singer-actor K.L. Saigal with a beatiful doodle. Saigalis much acclaimed as the “Shehansha-e-mausiqi’ or Sangeet Samrat (King of music).

Kundan Lal Saigal composed 185 songs, apart from acting in 36 films which released in 3 languages, in a whole period of his career about 15 years. He died in January, 1947.

Saigal joined music industry in the early 1930s when B.N. Sircar, the founder of New Theatres Calcutta, presented him to the Indian audience.

Saigal is considered as the first superstar of Indian cinema. His talent for both acting and singing was fully renowned after the success of Yahudi ki Ladki, a costume epic-based on Aga Hashr Kashmiri’s legendary play Misar Kumari with 19 songs together with Saigal’s ever popular Ghalib number “Nuktachin Hai Gham-e-Dil”.

It was around this time that Hindustan Records Company of Calcutta brought out Saigal’s well-known recording “Jhulna Jhulao” which set a new trail in Indian music.

Saigal met prominence and touched stardom with the release of New Theatres’ Chandidas in 1934. His dazzling and over-the-top performance in P.C. Barua’s magnum opus Devdas also accorded him wide appreciation.

His most outstanding films along with their melodious songs are 'Bhukt Surdas'(1942) and 'Tansen' (1943).