 Did you become a Rafisaab fan before, or after the legend passed away? |
Did you become a Rafisaab fan before
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| princeali |
 Feb 9 2005, 05:47 PM
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QUOTE(Harold @ Feb 8 2005, 01:17 AM) Here is a nice one for you all: On last Wednesday evening, I tuned in to 93.5 FM (RED FM) in Mumbai. The first voice I heard was Rafi-sahabs. A lot of beatiful Rafi-songs were played, and then I heard Ameen Sayani speaking. He was playing a Interview with Laxmikant, and in between he would play some songs and say something. After a while he played a part of the Laxmkant-interview, were Laxmikant said something on Rafi-sahab. It was like this: Laxmikant: Rafi-sahab was a man who always helped someone if he could. I remember when Lyricist Anand Bakshi moved to his new house in Mumbai, he wanted to have his children admitted in a neighbourhood school. But, he didn't get them admitted. Then someone told him, that if Rafi-sahab would do a word for him, he would get the admittance. So AB called Rafi-sahab. Rafi-sahab fortunately had some space in his busy agenda that day, and said: Ok, I'll go with you myself personally. When they arrived at the school, "school me hulchul machgaya ke Rafi sahab aye hai, Rafi sahab aye hai", Laxmikant said. The Principle welcomed Rafi-sahab and said, that he would arrange the admittance on 1 condition, and that is that Rafi-sahab has to sing a song on the school-microphone. Rafi-sahab agreed and sang the song. The whole school was thrilled with this big event, and AB was helped with his children. (Laxmikant said it all in Hindi off course) I thought, I have to share this one with you.  Thanks for the story Harold ji  Prince Ali |
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| RAFIK1 |
Feb 9 2005, 09:13 PM
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My nephew is four years old. His favourite song is Dard-e dil Dar-d Jigar of film Karz by Rafi Saab and many others of Rafi Saab. Each time we go travel by car, he will insist me to play Dard-e dil Dar-e Jigar in the car over and over again. Asked him, why do you like this song and his answer is, i like the singer voice! He is only four and he's already a fan of Rafi Saab. |
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| Harold |
Feb 10 2005, 07:52 PM
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QUOTE(RAFIK1 @ Feb 9 2005, 09:13 PM) My nephew is four years old. His favourite song is Dard-e dil Dar-d Jigar of film Karz by Rafi Saab and many others of Rafi Saab. Each time we go travel by car, he will insist me to play Dard-e dil Dar-e Jigar in the car over and over again. Asked him, why do you like this song and his answer is, i like the singer voice! He is only four and he's already a fan of Rafi Saab. Kya baat hai! Bahut khoob!!!!  |
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| iqbal |
Jun 13 2005, 07:19 PM
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Let’s get this back into play now that we have so many newbies How it currently stands… When the legend was amongst us [ 18 ] [34.62%] After the legend passed away  [ 34 ] [65.38%]Total Votes: 52 |
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| sksiddiqui |
Jun 14 2005, 02:30 PM
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QUOTE(iqbal @ Aug 16 2004, 08:13 PM) All Rafians, please vote - this should be interesting! I was born on 31st July 1975 therefore although, during my childhood, I have listen Rafi Sahab's songs before his death, but I am become his fan after his death when i was enable to understand music. Since than I am a true fan of Rafi Sahab. |
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| khokher1976 |
Jun 14 2005, 04:11 PM
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I was born in 1976, when Rafi Sahib passed away I was too young to listen to his songs. But still one of my earliest childhood memories have two of Rafi Sahibs songs, although at that time they did not make any sense to me. The first cassette I bought was of Rafi Sahib and with passage of time my thirst for his voice has only increased.
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| mrsongs |
Jun 28 2005, 02:00 AM
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yes i am a big fan of Rafi saab.
excellent singer, full control, great voice, total classical command skillfull singer. voice expression ... i love his voice |
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| maheshwari |
Jul 16 2005, 04:04 PM
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QUOTE(anmol @ Aug 18 2004, 10:22 PM) One thing about Old songs that I have noticed that I can not get enough of them. I can listen to them again and again for ever without getting tired or bored. They will grow more and more. With New songs specially starting with 1980's I dont listen to them after some time. I mean there have been really hit songs/good songs which I listen for some time but then after that they loose their charm!!! I searh for old songs but new songs..which are available in the gr8east quality of sound and with much enhanced musical env...I dont like them after some time. Whlile Old songs, though have bad sound quality and screechs in them...appeal more to me! Can anyone tell me is it only me or others think that too. Regards Anmol |
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| maheshwari |
Jul 16 2005, 04:09 PM
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Hello,
I am a new entrant. I have always been a Rafi fan since my childhood. My Mum used to tell me that I would wakeup and go to bed only when a song was played. I was not actually a Mohammed Rafi fan but as a kid would love listening to Hindi Songs and without knowing much about Mohammed Rafi I would always sing and enjoy his songs too! It was only after his passing away that I realized how much I loved his songs. Anyway most of the time I keep listening to his songs and this continues even today. maheshwari |
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| bchatterjee |
Jul 16 2005, 08:43 PM
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QUOTE(iqbal @ Aug 16 2004, 09:13 PM) All Rafians, please vote - this should be interesting! But when rafi passed away (it was I remember the last in the series of famous people passing away starting with Sanjay Gandhi ending with Rafi), I was only 7 years old. So how can one expect to appreciate Rafi Saab at that age!!! Hence I guess more people from my generation are on this forum and one cannot draw any conclusion like after a celebrity dies he becomes famous or something like that!!! I am sure if I would have loved Rafi, Talat and Hemant Kumar if I was alive then....Same goes for Geeta Dutt, Meena Kapoor, Guru Dutt, Meena Kumari Bappa |
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| sri |
Jul 16 2005, 10:16 PM
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I was quite surprised to find in the poll results that over 2/3rd of the people who voted were born after the legend passed away.
It does speak of Rafi sahab's eternal magic that so many of the younger generation ave taken to him. I was indeed extremely fortunate to have lived through the golden period having been born in 1954. To me, the songs of Rafi and Lata, Mukesh and Talat, Hemant Kumar and Geeta Dutt, Manna Dey and Asha Bhosle, Kishore Kumar - release 1 ( as they say in the software world nowadays - meaning the Kishore of pre 1969 days before he became a rage ).... and many others were 'LIVE' songs - since we were witnessing these songs being born on the radio waves and rising to their popularity heights on the Binaca geetmala .. before giving way to newer songs. How i remember the excitement of listening to a new song released on radio and how we would all look forward to hearing our favourite songs in the Binaca Geetmala on Radio Ceylon and other listener's choice programmes like Jaymala etc. ! Kishore Kumar was a rare appearance ( compared to Rafi and Lata ) and I distinctly remember how I would wait anxiously to hear his lovely voice and always wonder why this great singer was not able to get more songs to sing !! Didn't know about 1969 and Aradhana then. Those were the days of Rafi and Lata. So many songs came and went .... some I have never heard since ..... and whenever I come across any rare song of that era, my mind goes back to those childhood days! My fanatical interest in hindi film music did not go unrewarded. In 1978 I had occasion to visit a recording studio where Rafi sahab was recording a new song and was introduced to him. He shook hands with me and spoke a few lines enquiring about me. Probaly the MOST MEMORABLE DAY of my life ! More about that some other time ....but I am truly surprised and happy to see a larger percentage of fans in the next generation ! Rafi sahab deseves all this adulation and more. As Lata Mangeshkar, herself, once said about this famous man - "Aise kalakaar baar baar janam nahin lete' sri "Jis din is duniya se nafrat aur khudgarzi mit jaayegi, us roz yeh insaan naachega, us roz yeh dharti gaayegi" - Rajinder Krishan (Maa baap 1959)
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| bchatterjee |
Jul 17 2005, 12:55 AM
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QUOTE(sri @ Jul 16 2005, 11:16 PM) I was quite surprised to find in the poll results that over 2/3rd of the people who voted were born after the legend passed away. It does speak of Rafi sahab's eternal magic that so many of the younger generation ave taken to him. I was indeed extremely fortunate to have lived through the golden period having been born in 1954. To me, the songs of Rafi and Lata, Mukesh and Talat, Hemant Kumar and Geeta Dutt, Manna Dey and Asha Bhosle, Kishore Kumar - release 1 ( as they say in the software world nowadays - meaning the Kishore of pre 1969 days before he became a rage ).... and many others were 'LIVE' songs - since we were witnessing these songs being born on the radio waves and rising to their popularity heights on the Binaca geetmala .. before giving way to newer songs. How i remember the excitement of listening to a new song released on radio and how we would all look forward to hearing our favourite songs in the Binaca Geetmala on Radio Ceylon and other listener's choice programmes like Jaymala etc. ! Kishore Kumar was a rare appearance ( compared to Rafi and Lata ) and I distinctly remember how I would wait anxiously to hear his lovely voice and always wonder why this great singer was not able to get more songs to sing !! Didn't know about 1969 and Aradhana then. Those were the days of Rafi and Lata. So many songs came and went .... some I have never heard since ..... and whenever I come across any rare song of that era, my mind goes back to those childhood days! My fanatical interest in hindi film music did not go unrewarded. In 1978 I had occasion to visit a recording studio where Rafi sahab was recording a new song and was introduced to him. He shook hands with me and spoke a few lines enquiring about me. Probaly the MOST MEMORABLE DAY of my life ! More about that some other time ....but I am truly surprised and happy to see a larger percentage of fans in the next generation ! Rafi sahab deseves all this adulation and more. As Lata Mangeshkar, herself, once said about this famous man - "Aise kalakaar baar baar janam nahin lete' sri THAT IS WHAT i AM TALKING ABOUT....i WAS JUST BORN 50 YEARS LATER THAN i SHOULD HAVE!!!! |
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| iqbal |
Jul 18 2005, 03:11 PM
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QUOTE(sri @ Jul 16 2005, 04:46 PM) My fanatical interest in hindi film music did not go unrewarded. In 1978 I had occasion to visit a recording studio where Rafi sahab was recording a new song and was introduced to him. He shook hands with me and spoke a few lines enquiring about me. Probaly the MOST MEMORABLE DAY of my life ! sri Hi Srikantji and welcome to HF, Thank you very much for that lovely post, can you please provide more details of that song being recorded and the others present in the studio, eg MD, lyricist, venue etc. Thanks Iqbal |
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| visuja |
Jul 18 2005, 03:46 PM
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Dear all,
I was just over a year old when Rafi saab passed away .... But my earliest memories of humming any song was with my cousin ... "Ek Rasta Aha Aha'" from Ram Balram. I used to play Chor Police with my cousin and take turns singing the song. Dont remember if I was Amit or Dharam though ! (as in Rafi or Kishore). So well u cud say I started off with both Legends equally. Then for a loong time preferred KK with all his RDB numbers, and I identified Rafi only with his 'crazy' Shammi Kapoor numbers. Also loved all songs that had either Rafi or Kishore singing for Amitabh. With worsening film music towards late 80s, I suppose I wandered towards older films and picked up several old KK gems. It was only late in school that I started really appreciating Rafi. And of course, once the "aashiq" in me was awakened, it was Rafi all the way !!   Still collecting gems from the vast ocean called "Rafi" ...... Vivek jinhein ataa kii hai tu ne taaqat, unhein hidaayat kii roshnii de |
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| jam_27 |
Jul 19 2005, 03:12 PM
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QUOTE(visuja @ Jul 18 2005, 03:46 PM) Dear all, I was just over a year old when Rafi saab passed away .... But my earliest memories of humming any song was with my cousin ... "Ek Rasta Aha Aha'" from Ram Balram. I used to play Chor Police with my cousin and take turns singing the song. Dont remember if I was Amit or Dharam though ! (as in Rafi or Kishore). So well u cud say I started off with both Legends equally. Then for a loong time preferred KK with all his RDB numbers, and I identified Rafi only with his 'crazy' Shammi Kapoor numbers. Also loved all songs that had either Rafi or Kishore singing for Amitabh. With worsening film music towards late 80s, I suppose I wandered towards older films and picked up several old KK gems. It was only late in school that I started really appreciating Rafi. And of course, once the "aashiq" in me was awakened, it was Rafi all the way !! Still collecting gems from the vast ocean called "Rafi" ...... Vivek Wow, your story is so similar to that of mine, from the beginning till the time u have described, with the only difference that I used to hum "darde dil darde jigar" as a kid. I was 2 and half years old when Rafi Saab left us. The "aashiq" thing goes with me as well. I can listen to Rafi Saab endlessly, that is this mans magic, he has cast his spell, and we all are still spellbound. Regards,  JAM The sweetest songs are those which tell the saddest of tales
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