Did you become a Rafisaab fan before

4 Creation and distribution of fullcolour video's of
his live shows.





I hope the videos are released very soon, can’t wait to see a full concert.









Dear friends

A FORUM NAMED RAFI SMRITI HAS BEEN FORMED IN THE
MEMMORY OF GREAT SINGER MOHAMMAD RAFI SAHEB.

A MEMMORIAL MEETING WAS HELD ON 31 st JULY 2004 -
DEATH ANNIVERSARY OF RAFI SAHEB, IN WHICH A PROPOSAL
WAS PASSED UNNANIMOUSLY IN WHICH A DEMAND WAS MADE TO
GOVERNMENT THAT BHARAT RATAN AWARD/DADA SAHEB FALKE
AWARD SHOULD BE GIVEN TO RAFI SAHEB.

REPORTS REGARDING THIS GROUP, HAVE BEEN PUBLISHED IN
MANY NEWSPAPERS LIKE PUNJAN KESRI AND RAJSTHAN PATRIKA
ON AUGUST 01, 2004.


OFFICE OF THIS FORUM IS IN DELHI.This group is soon
going to be registered as a national social
organisation.Action programmes of this group will be
decieded in next meetting of the group going to be
held in next month. We will meet with Dr. A P J Abdul
Kalam, Mrs Sonia Gandhi, central ministers including
Mr.Sunil Dutt and member of parliament including Mr
Dharmendra.

LIST OF OFFICE BEARERS OF THIS GROUP ARE FOLLOWING

H .B. MATHUR, VICE PRESIDENT (LAW), ESCORTS GROUP,
FARIDABAD

VINOD VIPLAV, JOURNALIST AND WRITER, ASSOCIATED WITH A
NATIONAL NEWS AGENCY, DELHI

DR.R.P.SINGH,MEDICAL PRACTIONER, DELHI

L.K.ANAND, CONTRACTOR, MDMC, DELHI

ASHOK PRIYADARSHI, JOURNALIST, BHASHKAR

ASHISH KUMAR, MANAGER OF A EVENT MANAGEMENT COMPANY
PH. 9871303193

ARUN KUMAR, NEW DELHI

MRS MAMTA YADAV, COMPUTER PROFESSIONAL

SHREE PRAKAS, SOCIAL WORKER

SANTOSH SHINHA, GOVT SERVENT IN BIHAR GOVT.

IRFAN, FAMOUS RADIO PRESENT FOR FM GOLD OF ALL INDIA
RADIO


ANYBODY WANTS TO JOIN THIS FORUM OR WANT TO KNOW MORE
ABOUT THIS GROUP MAY CONTACT

VINOD VIPLAV
PH.9868103624
vivijournalist@yahoo.com


AIMS AND OBJECTIVES OF THIS GROUP ARE AS FOLLOWS

This group is formed with the following objectives
1 Promoting discussions on Mohamed Rafi and old and
gold music of india
2 Publication of his biographies and publication of
collections of his interviews in different newspapers.
3 Creation and publication of a list of all his songs
and details about these songs.
4 Creation and distribution of fullcolour video's of
his live shows.
5 Producing a film of his works and life
6 To collect information about his children, wife,
relatives, etc. and publish these information.
7 Publication booklets on interesting topics about
Mohamed Rafi Sahib
8 Publish the memories of the (closed) friends of
Mohamed Rafi Sahib
9 Realisation of the "Mohamed Rafi" street name in
different town and metros of India and other parts of
the world.
10.To start a national award in the memmory of Rafi
Saheb.
11.to build a memorial and a music archives at Kotla
Sultansingh.
12.To organise musical programmes on music.

YOUR SUGGETIONS ARE HIGHLY APPRECIATED.YOU ARE INVITED
TO JOIN THIS GROUP.

VINOD VIPLAV

Hi Iqbal-bhai,

During my visit to Mumbai last week, I was very pleased to hear that even now, almost 25 years after his demise, he is still the most played artist on the radio. I was pleasantly surprised. The whole day his songs were playing on the radio. Sometimes even more then the new releases.

Rgds,
HArold

i was born on 17th feb 1982

but my whole family is a fan of RAFI SAHAB

whn i was kid i used to called him MOHAMMED RAFIQUE

dammm.... so many kids

This shows the quality that Rafi saab had and that his void has not been filled, and will never be filled by anyone.

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.