This has relevance to the Talat article by Imran.

http://www.hamaraforums.com/index.php?showtopic=71

I've seen many articles where famous, legendary and not so famous, not so legendary artists have come out and said something good about any artist. Has Rafi said anything on any artist .... i mean has it appeared on any books or sites?

Pradeep ji,

I found this from a Yahoo group named "telugulovers". See the text in boldface.

Chitralekha

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Message 534 of 943

From: NaChaKi
Date: Fri Mar 2, 2001 7:27 am
Subject: Re: [telugulovers] Ee paata yekkadidhi?


Kalyan,

The song is actually #haayi haayigaa aamani saage...". I
can give the lyric for the song if you want, I guess I
remember the whole song. The song is from #suvarNa suMdari#
starring ANR and Anjali in the lead. Music scored by
Adinarayana Rao (the movie is produced by him, Anjali
pictures banner, he's Anjali's husband, I guess you know).

The song was sung by Ghantasala and Jikki in Telugu, and
the song #kuhu kuhu ... kOyal ....# in Hindi (you know I am
not good at this ) was sung by Rafi and Lata. Both Rafi
and Lata praised Ghantasala and Jikki for the ease in their
voice in the Telugu song. Lata said she could not sing it
with that ease, and Rafi said that the #gamakaalu# in
Ghantasala's voice were unmimicable. :-)

The song actually is composed in a few raagaas, not just
one. They're, hmmm, not really completely Hindustani
raagaas, but they have their respective counterparts there.
The Carnatic raagaas that come through the song are
#vasaMta, kaanaDa, dES^...# (I don't remember others, I can
get them if someone can give me a link to the song, which I
unfortunately did not find). Actually, believe it or not, I
heard the song just today when one friend was trying to
play (the Hindi version) on the keyboard! And I told him
I'd get a link for the song, and wanted to post a query
here!!! 100 years for this song :-D

NaChaKi

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