 His duets such as "Palkon Ke Tale" and "Mujhko Yeh Zindagi Lagti Hai" in "Sailaab" were hits too.Kumar gained the reputation of being a singer who belted out hit songs irrespective of the film being a commercial success or critically panned.Kumar also worked with Ram Laxman and songs such as the Lata-Amit Kumar duets "Main Jis Din Bhoola Doon" from "Police Public" in 1990 and "Le Le Dil" from "100 days" in 1991 became popular.