Din Dhal Jaaye … Haaye .. Raat Na Jaaye
This article is written by Mr. Shrirang Nawathe, Muscat. 00968 92 89 90 89
While viewing the song, DIN DHAL JAAYE HAAYE… RAAT NA JAA.YE. TU TO NA AAYE TERI..YAAD SATAAYE … from the 1965 film GUIDE, one can easily be filled up by number of thoughts. Even after listening the song NON STOP 3 horus, I still have desire for ONCE MORE…. The beauty of the song lies in the fact of “Dedicated Team Work”. Every member of the team had contributed the best and therefore the product has come out with the tag of Excellent Quality. The quality which lasts for the decades and centuries.
What is the beauty of the song? Beautiful things cannot be expressed in words or for that matter the dictionary of the words is not enough to express the simplest forms of beauty of nature. It just has to be experienced. However, I think of some inherent factors which made the song a Quality Product. Beauty of the song is its melody,voice, music, lyrics, besides direction, presentation and performance by the Legendary Artists.
Mohd Rafi and Dev Anand
Coming down to the song, one can observe that, Rafi Sahab had done full justice to the given situation and to create the moods as expressed by Dev Anand in the film. It is clear that, Rafi Sahab got himself involved to such an extent that, we hardly are able to distinguish whether the song is sung by Dev Anand Sb or Rafi Sahab. What an understanding of the situation and matching of the voice by Rafi Sahab..just unparallel.
The extra melodious low voice was maintained by Rafi Sahab. Throughout the song which produces great impact on our minds whenever we listen the song. Even to-day, the voice of Rafi Sahab creates such vibrations in our nerve cells that, after more than 40 years of recording of the song, we get moved by the theme and situation and tears just roll down on our cheeks unknowingly and we get convinced with Dev Anand’s situation.
Here, equal credit goes to two stalwarts namely, Shailendra and SD Burman. The mysteries of the life were revealed in the simplest words by great Shailendra and this was his extraordinary quality.
SD Burman too did not leave any stone unturned. He created such a melodious, meaningful, lovely music to give due justice to the song situation. A typical SDB style reflected and is quite visible to a music lover, when one listens Flute is used so effectively that, it altogether keeps you going with the song in the same moods. Similarly, use of Saxophone was also a masterpiece. SDB denied signing new contracts when he was busy with the music composition of GUIDE just to give full justice to the job in hand. This shows the total dedication of a music director. Therefore, it is quite obvious that, music created with such dedication has to leave an everlasting impact on music lovers’ minds.
In this song, the helplessness of Dev Anand was exactly expressed by Shailendra right from the beginning. It is evident when we listen the first line of the song i.e. DIN DHAL JAAYE HAI RAAAT NA JAAYE. In fact, we can not ignore the classic efforts put by Vijay Anand directing this song. The helplessness is reflected at every moment of the song. Not only that, but also it gets worsened gradually as the song advances towards completion.
For instance, the almost empty bottle and glass are shown in the hands of Dev Anand & he was shown sitting on the floor whereas his colleague is shown sitting on a chair. Similarly, the door of Wahida Rehmaan’s room was shown locked in the beginning to express her helplessness. These are classic indications and reveals the talents of the director.
Rafi Sahab was all time great and this was proved once again when he had sung this beautiful tragedy song. Rafi Sahab had sung many tragedy songs for that matter, but, this song has a speciality that, the justice to the job was done by every member of the team to produce the everlasting effects.
Therefore, listening DIN DHAL JAAYE..HAI RAAT NA JAAYE.. ultimately leaves only and only feeling of ONCE MORE… in our minds…
Hats off to SD Burman, Shailendra, Rafi Sahab, Dev Anand, Waheeda Rehman & last but not the least, VIJAY ANAND who GUIDED the team in such a way that, GUIDE achieved a status of a mile stone in the Hindi Film World, winning 7 film fare awards in the year 1967.
March 13th, 2008 at 5:42 am
i was about to ask questions about aradhana but shakti samanta already cleared matters and i’m sure manohari singh is tired of that topic. here’s the straight story:
1. sdb composed all the tunes for aradhana (source manohari singh & bhupinder).
2. only rafi was to give male playback since the movie didn’t star dev anand. after recording two songs, rafi went out on world tour and asked sdb to record the remaining songs in kishore’s voice (source: shakti samanta, vivid bharati).
3. sdb himself rehearsed the songs with kishore. afterwards, either sdb or rdb (don’t know who but doesn’t matter) recorded the songs with kishore who then finally got the recognition he deserved.
i will also not ask about the story BEHIND tum bin jaoon kahan. manohari singh indicated that nasir hussain wanted only the rafi version whereas pancham wanted both the rafi version AND the kishore version. it was such a big deal to rd that he threatened to leave the project. definitely not a coincidence. two popular singers render almost the same song in two different versions in a big movie. think about it. no one is so naive not to realize that comparisons will arise. that’s what pancham wanted. pancham had only respect & warm regards for rafi but he was just trying to do what any good friend would do: promote his friend kishore’s singing career. it is commendable.
later i will come up with questions i do want to ask manohari singh.
March 12th, 2008 at 8:38 pm
this debate on sj, rafi sahab, raj kapoor, and others is becoming more and more absorbing and interesting. i am amazed to find so many very knowledgeable around who make such valuable contribution. i feel we are too small a fry to eve post a comment when compared to the likes of myk, maruti raoji, raju kortiji, p haldarji and many more. i particularly liked the reference to ‘hotel gaylord’ in mumbai’s churchgate area and the story related to jaikishan and the ‘reserved for jaikishen’. thanks raju kortiji for the fantastic information. keep writing folks and never let these columns go empty. no other website on any personality from bollywood would generate such intense and factful stories as are reported here. thanks to each one of you.
March 12th, 2008 at 1:49 pm
Dear Kortiji,
excellent info on sj. rafisaab has always maintained in his usual humble way that he was not a great singer and that whatever the mds have asked him to do he had done.the very first song which rafisaab sang for sj was from barsat (mein zindagi me hardam rota hi raha hoon.) rafisaab’s voice depicts the pain of the lover and the way he expresses it. it was shailendra’s song . the llyrics itself is pain personified and sj and rafisaab made it more and more expressive. i have tears in my eyes when i hear this song .there will never be a team of sj rafisaab shailendra and hasrat , never
March 12th, 2008 at 11:36 am
you are right mr haldar. shankar was indeed a punjabi, but he prided himself on being an andhrite, the reason i wrote he was a telugu. you are also right that jai was 39 when he passed away in 1971. my apologies. because of a neuropathic finger, i am prone to keying in mistakes. but thanks for the encouragement. it is great we share all this information and enjoy nostalgia.
mr myk, you are also right there. jai was indeeed a good singer. there was something touchy about his voice like nayyar’s and madan mohan’s. they were not professionally trained but understood the sur and, its nuances and the emotion in the words well.
i have no clue about jai wanting to start a music school, but i can endorse this anecdote about the rafi-mubarak begum duet from hamrahi. the unsaid story here is rafi himself went out of the way to persuade jai to retain the mubarak begum part not because he wasn’t against lata as his co-singer but since mubarak begum deserved to be encouraged.
when jai left, most of sj’s assignments did go to rdb who was showing a completely different kind of promise, the trend setter that he was. and to rdb’s credit he started really well. remember, it wasn’t kishore but rafi whose “pallu pakad kar rdb chalne laga tha”. rdb knew only too well that rafi was his only prop, having seen the maestro perform since his childhood.
as for sj, both were tremendously fond of rafi. shankar once told me that rafi’s grasp of the song was amazing and he would give it expression the way only he could. no one else could even dream of doing that. “in fact after he had sung the song, we realised we had composed such a great tune,” shankar said.
both once also confided that they had a tough time making mukesh sing in tune, but did it for friend raj kapoor who gave them their first break in 1948. this is not to belittle mukesh but to share what the duo honestly felt. that’s why you can see that in most raj kapoor movies they would ensure at least one rafi song that went on someone else since raj had decided that mukesh was his voice. for the record, raj himself had unabashed admiration for rafi.
i have frequented the gaylord hotel in mumbai’s churchgate, the place where jai would brainstormed most of the time. dressed in white pant and white shirt, jai would enter the hotel like a prince and leave like one. when anyone asked him for money, he would just put hands in his pockets, take out whatever amount of money his hands laid on and gave. he never counted notes. such was his magnanimity. the owner of the hotel treated him like a demigod. i remember, he was completely crestfallen when jai died. since that day, the table on which jai would always sit, remains vacant, no matter whatever the rush. if you walk into that hotel, you will still find the table “RESERVED FOR JAIKISHEN”.
March 12th, 2008 at 10:44 am
myk :
good stuff indeed with lots of info on the period post jais departure.
the s.j. team would surely have come up with some new tunes
like the ones of andaz, prince,bramachari and others.
but , pls note that s & J were working seperately, their fees were high
and composers of the time were ready to work for half the price
which s & J commanded.
Qualitatively too new sounds and styles were emerging and rdb
had shown his class in h.k.h.ram few years back may be in 69…
sdb had this to say of his prodical son : he is good but he copies a
lot…….from other sources.
by the way i am writing these lines to say that i have an appointment
with our grand old man manohri singh and rafi lovers may send in
queries related to the “golden olden musical days” if any which will
be reflected by yours truly in these spaces…
good day….
binu nair… the rafi foundation…
March 12th, 2008 at 7:54 am
I wish Vishwas Nerurkar would make his book details better known. I didn’t even know he had a Rafi Geet Kosh. I wish he had a web site where he lists all his books and we can order them. When will the second edition come out? Within about a year I will order all of VN’s books, hfgk, and other books. Learn to read Hindi too
March 12th, 2008 at 7:30 am
I mentioned in my previous post about SJ having around 30+ films on hand around the time Jai passed away. This info is from an old Screen article that was published soon after Jai’s demise which mentioned SJ then had a combined 30+ odd productions at various stages of production.
Around 1970, S-J were still the one of the biggest names in the music circles, the other two being L-P and K-A. RD’s breakthrough into the big league that year was through the “The Train” (and Rafi’s ahead of its time and trendy “Gulabi Aankhen”), and then later Kati Patang. He further went up the ladder with Amar Prem, Caravan and HRHK the following year. The trio of LP, RD, KA then went on to dominate film music for the next decade or so. Ofcourse the Grand Old Man SDB was always there giving good competition to the trinity, with his great albums. Then you had Rajesh Roshan zooming in around the mid-seventies to provide a challenge to this trinity as well. Among all of these composers were MM, Usha Khanna, Ravindra Jain and many more who produced excellent and quality music.
Had Jai lived, where would S-J have been among all this ?. I am sure they would have pulled more magic out of their hat and lead the way.
March 12th, 2008 at 7:12 am
Jaikishan, the handsome and genius composer passed away at a very young age. Manohari Singh called him a real ‘raaja’ of a man, it was through Sebastian that he met Jai and Jai made him a permanent member of the S-J camp. I’m sure Manohari must have been really excited palying in that grand and magical S-J orchestra before he moved on to another excellent orchestra, that of Pancham. One day I would like to visit Gaylord’s and see the place Jaikishan used to visit a lot.
S-J had a combined 30+ films on hand around the time Jai passed away and a good number of them went to RDB. It was only fitting that these films be passed on to RD, from one trend-setting duo to another trend-setting composer. I have read that Jaikishan wanted to build a music school, Mr. Korti, can you please confirm if this is true.
I am not sure if anyone here has heard Jaikishan singing (maybe Mr. Korti and Mr. Haldar have). I have a rare clip which I obtained a few years back in which Ameen Sayani presented Jaikishan singing a ghazal. What is interesting is that the tune of this ghazal is similar to L-P’s “Gore Gore Chand Se Mukh Pe” sung by Mukesh from Anita. Maybe the tune is from a common source and both Laxmikant and Jai were inspired from there. What I’m wondering is, maybe Jai was thinking of converting this ghazal into a future film song but never got the opportunity to do so. I can bet that it would have been sung by the Badshah Rafi-saab. I have the clip of Jai’s singing as well as the whole Ameen Sayani tribute to S-J, I will upload it for whoever is interested. There is an interview of Pallavi Jaikishan as well in the program, you should see the way she gushes about Rafi-saab, when remembering the recording she attended for Jai’s “Mujhko apne gale laga lo”, Rafi with Mubarak Begum from Humrahi.
The story behind that song is that Mubarak Begum was told that her voice was to be used only as a “filler”, and Lata would dub over her portions later on. Jai waited till the last minute for Lata to show up but she never did. So the female portion of the song was kept in the voice of Mubarak Begum.
March 11th, 2008 at 9:38 pm
mr rao
thanks. i have met mr vishwas nerurkar, who has written the rafi geetkosh and also a geetkosh on op nayyar. he is a great fan of nayyarsaab. by the way i also know mr vishwas chatterji who have compiled a complete geetkosh (glossary of songs) of hindi songs from 1940s till date. i can be contacted on 9819319157, 9833371357 and 9321939345 between 3 noon and 10pm.
one thing i want to make clear. i am great fan of all the mds of those times, including second and third line composers like c arjun, ramlal, iqbal qureshi, lala asad sattar, sapan jagmohan, sn tripathi, jamal sen, usha khanna, sardar malik and many more.
March 11th, 2008 at 7:56 pm
mr. korti, your posts on sj are excellent. Please keep posting more anecdotes about the duo. We know so little about them compared to rd and his contemporaries. Just a couple of corrections: shankar was a punjabi, but he grew up in andhra pradesh. And, if I remember correctly, Jai was around 39 when he passed away in 1971, the biggest blow to hfm till then and the second biggest blow overall.
March 11th, 2008 at 7:53 pm
Dear Rao-ji,
Thanks for your kind words, I have Mr. Nerurkar’s book as well, Thanks also for the offer.
The book is an excellent tribute to S-J, very detailed, with a complete filmography on their works as well as rare pictures and great articles. It’s an excellent collectors item and a must-have for any S-J fan. Mr. Nerurkar’s books have all been great.
Rao-ji, would you by any chance be able to get me Mr. Nerurkar’s book on RD Burman ?. I am based in Toronto, and I received the S-J book via mail from a friend. If possible, please let me know if the book is available, and what the price is, I heard Mr. Nerurkar was going to come out with a second edition. I would really like to have the second updated edition of this book.
March 11th, 2008 at 5:27 pm
Dear Shri MYK and Shri Raju Korti,
The information written by you both on SJ is excellent. I am also very very die hard fan of SJ and Rafi (of course of Shailendra and Hasrat ).
I have a book on SJ- (Saat Suro ke rang-English and Hindi) by Mr.Vishwas Nerurkar. I do not know whether you have read it or not. This is an bio graphy of SJ . It contains rarest pictures of them . It also has a deep information about their working styles etc.
I am based in Mumbai . Please let me know if any one of you would like to read it .
There is also new book on SJ recently come up. I will let you know shortly.
My cell no is 9987558607
Regards
Maruti Rao
March 10th, 2008 at 2:59 pm
dear myk and all
from 1956 to 1965 when op nayyar arrived like a collossus to steal a commercial and melodious march over all his great contemporaries with his unique blende of rhythm and melody, sj were the most affected. yet, sj continued to do great work. op told that he had the greatest regards for shankar-jaikishen. “koi bhi parakh le aise aise heere moti diye hain”, he said of the duo, though his highest respects were reserved for sajjad hussain and c ramchandra.
actually, the film industry got its first composer duo in husnlal bhagatram and sj admitted at that point of time that hb inspired them. that was all.
sj revolutionalised melody in the sense they made it look so easy that anyone could sing those tunes without having to strain their vocal chords. though jaikishen and shankar were poles apart by nature, they complemented each other to perfection. such was their togetherness that even films where the score was composed by either of the two, the credit went to both of them equally. there was no rancour here. for instance, the songs from amrapali were all classical based and composed by shankar himself. unfortunately jai, a great and magnanimous human being, got into binge drinking for personal reasons. so much that he met an untimely death at just 34. forget his compositions, he was as good looking as any other hero on screen. remember raj kapoor’s shree 420 where jai acts a small part as nadira’s drunkard husband. he even acted a hero in begunah, suprisingly opting for mukesh’s voice in the songs “ae pyaase dil bejubaan” and “kisi nargisi nazar ko dil denge hum.”
after jai’s death, shankar was only a pale shadow of himself. the rhythm was gone and eventually, shankar also died a disillussioned man. as i have said in one of my earlier posts, the film industry is cruel and crassly commercial. it is a testimony to the greatness of the duo that today we have any number of composer duos who all swear by sj but churn out trash.
March 10th, 2008 at 7:58 am
It is frequently quoted that SDB told Kishore that no one could have sang the three solos of Guide better than Rafi. What is the SOURCE of this information? How do I know this isn’t a false anecdote on the Internet? If someone could provide me a primary source (other than the song which makes it very believable) - I would be grateful. Thanks.
This statement has been stated too many times to be uncited as it is.
March 10th, 2008 at 1:06 am
Dear Korti-ji,
S-J were indeed the greatest composers, they were the perfect mix of class and mass. I have read that Jaikishan taught Kalyanji studio balancing and mixing, K-A, L-P and Pancham were all big fans of the duo as were countless others, they were a school of composing. If Rafi revolutionized playback singing, then the same can be said of S-J when it comes to music. Their variety is mindboggling, the amount of genres they have covered is amazing, they were truly the best of the best. Had Jai not passed away so early, I think we would have seen them shine in the 70’s as well.
It would be great to meet with you and other Rafi fans on this forum. Please do take up the idea of writing a book, I think you would do a fantastic job, and it would be a treat for all us Rafi fans.
March 9th, 2008 at 12:28 am
dear myk
thanks a ton. yes, i am indeed lucky to have met rafisaab and to be present at some of his recordings. but please do not feel deprived. i think you are as lucky as all of us fans. we are all privileged to have been born in the same century as the maestro. rafisaab is like a whiff of fresh, perfumed breeze that brings relief and serenity to us. his voice is the best thing to have happened to all of us. isn’t it wonderful that we are all here, don’t know most of us by faces and yet the rafi chord connects us? that’s what rafi magic is all about — to bring diverse people drawn from different ethnicities, cultures, religions and castes under one religion that is as lofty as it can get — the rafi religion.
yes, i have also had the privilege to meet the great duo of shankar jaikishen. they are, according to me, the best composers of all times. of course there were sdb, naushad, c ramchandra, naushad, op, mm, and a host of second and third line composers. but why i would rate sj highly is because of their consistency and their ability to make simple, yet hummable and intense tunes. they were truly the composers of masses, but they never became frivolous. both complemented each other like they were made for each other in heavens. while jai was flamboyant and light, shankar, the south indian was more intense and classically inclined. if shankar had mukesh singing dost dost na raha for him, jai had rafi going on rajendra kumar with the soft romantic yeh mera prem patra padhkar. some day i will list — as much as i can remember — the songs each composed — though they went under the names of both. i have a goold black and white pic of rafisaab snuggled between the duo.
with a lot of fear and apprehension, i concede to write a book, but before i venture into this risky exercise, for which i may not be really cut out, i need to meet you all rafi lovers.
god knows whether that book will happen or not, but i will always revel in the nostalgia that somebody afforded me the honour of writing about a person whose heights few people can reach in the history of mankind.
March 8th, 2008 at 4:05 am
Dear Korti-ji
You are so lucky to have met Rafi-saab as well as witnessed his live recordings. Not many people have had the fortune of doing so, and it must have been the experience of a lifetime. Add to that the number of people you have interviewed in the industry about Rafi-saab, I really hope you continue to share your experiences with us.
The AEIP recording must have been a thrill ride, seeing Rafi record that song. I assume you also had the chance to interact with Shankar and Jaikishan ?. How was it like meeting them, they were genius MD’s, its sad that Jai left this world so early. There is a picture I saw of Rafi-saab along with Jaikishan, Shakti Samantha and Sharmila Tagore from that same recording.
My father is the biggest and greatest Rafi fan that I know, and I am happy that I have come to know an interact with other big and great Rafi fans out there on this forum such as yourself, Haldar-ji, XXX-ji, Manish-ji, Binu-ji, HV Guru Murthy-ji and various other Rafi fans (my apologies if I haven’t taken other names, you all are also big and great Rafi fans). I myself am a huge fan of the legend, and I am thrilled to interact with everyone here on a regular basis. I hope we can all continue to share our thoughts, experiences etc. of ’saatwan sur’.
I also think you should come out with a book on Rafi-saab, as the information that you have cannot be found just anywhere.
March 7th, 2008 at 9:42 pm
raju korti ji, thanks for your post 82. it was by itself very informative and made absorbing reading. i totally agree with you that the persona of rafi sahab can never be encompassed in one book, however large it may be. he was too big to fit into any defined frames. i also agree that most people do not know much about rafi sahab, for the simple reason that rafi sahab was publicity-shy and spoke little to most people. but even then, each new book on rafi sahab is a gift to all of us and you have known him closer than many of us. while we only know of his songs and a few bits of stories here and there about his persona, you have had a much deeper insight into his life. it is with these inputs that we have requested you to take the up this challenging task and we are sure to find newer anecdotes, newer insights and a far more revealing picture than we have had access to all these years. yes you may feel that you may not have done justice after resting your pen on rafi sahab, but that little ‘effort’ on your part will be more than satisfying to us all to know ‘your rafi’ as well. please begin in right earnest and believe me when i say that all of us would love to possess the book.
asmurty2@rediffmail.com rafimurty@gmail.com
March 6th, 2008 at 8:35 pm
to all the rafi admirers out there
i am overwhelmed and touched by the affection and faith you all have expressed in me on the issue of writing rafi’s biography. in one of my threads i have already expressed my feelings on the gigantic magnitude of this task. i doubt if anyone is really equipped to write about him. that’s because it is virtually impossible to encapsulate the legend in words. i know i can write a 10,000 page book on him and yet i may be left with the nagging feeling that i haven’t done justice to the man and his achievements. that is my only fear. i do not want to live with this sickening feeling that i could not be fair to someone who brought such unrequited joy to millions across the world — me being one just small fry. i would rather prefer that this great forum is kept going with an unending stream of anecdotes, stories, song narrations and just about everything that connects with the mighty rafisaab.
i do not claim to be a know-all on rafi. yes, i have first-hand access to a whole of of information and privy to many conversations and incidents concerning rafi. i have had the privilege to meet many music directors, lyricists, instrumentalists, actors and big-time dignitories who spoke so glowingly about him all the time. but i still feel handicapped that i am perhaps yet to know a lot about him.
one reason was rafisaab was a man of very few words, very reticent. shy and self-effacing, his humility was amazing. i cannot ever forget those days when i met him. if i write about all that we exchanged, it wouldn’t even run into 50 pages. but his gentleman demeanour, impeccable, polished manners brought to fore an unfathomable spectrum of dimensions to his personality. he wasn’t educated, but he is easily the most dignified and cultured person i have met in life. and believe me, in my profession, i have met thousands of national and international legends.
my most endearing memory of him was when he personally walked down the steps to greet me, hands folded in a warm namaste and face that sported an innocent and cherubic smile. not much was exchanged in that meeting, but i can never forget that throughout the meeting his head was always bowed in complete humility. later, i came to know from the more veterans that he was always like that, no matter whom he met. while his singing prowess is non pareil, what most people always marvelled at was his humility. it was mind boggling. to call him a farishta is an understatement. there was nothing put on about him. with him everything was so simple. even singing, which was child’s play for him.
i have had the good fortune of witnessing (and hearing) some of his recordings. believe me, i haven’t got out of that stupor yet. i will tell a detailed story of these experiences some time, but i will tell you all for a fact that he was so expressive during his recordings that even established heroes took cue. sunil dutt once acknowleged to me that there could never be any dispute as to who was the real hero of the film. rafisaab was both the crowned and uncrowned king. it was quite ironic. here was a man who was simplicity personified to the point that he never looked people in the eye. and there were any number of big shots who were in complete awe of him. afterall, one becomes a legend by virtue of his persona and abilities, isn’t it?
rafisaab’s legendary exploits are stuff folklores are made of. i still remember one recording from an evening in paris where rafi walked into the recording room with silent steps, just smiling at people. he hardly spoke. once in front of the mike, he was a different man altogether. he directly went into an octave with o janeman kinaro (aasman se aaya farishta). he made quite a picture with his serene smile, hands held up to match the octave. recording done, he simply wished everyone and went off, leaving the air wafting with the perfume of his ‘attar’ and the melody of his notes. memories are many, and all so close to my heart. seeing your idol in flesh and blood is an experinece one can only feel from within.
i will try to share my rafi with your’s. let’s get drenched in the downpour called rafi.
ps: please apologise for any keying in errors, if any.
March 5th, 2008 at 5:32 pm
ref post 77:
anmol ji, thanks for your kind words. I second your suggestion that mr. korti should write a book on the farishta. He has so much to share. As for me, I am a passionate rafi lover who loves to share his views. But I don’t have the inside knowledge that’s important for writing a book. If mr. korti writes a book, I’d like to be the first person to buy it.
March 4th, 2008 at 10:39 pm
further to posts 78 and 79, let me also add that other good rafi-lovers who have the best of ‘articles on rafi sahab’, ‘photographs of rafi sahab and his family’ etc. can also contribute for the book. others who have good anecdotes (veriafiable ones) can also chip in. there are quite a few books in the market already, but another one will only add to the glory and perhaps such a book can be translated later into urdu and hindi too, since these two languages command the highest readership among lovers of rafi sahab’s music and songs.
March 4th, 2008 at 8:36 am
Mr. Murtyji,
Refer Post No. 78. I am ready to do any thing for Rafiji who has done so much for us with his wonderful songs.
March 3rd, 2008 at 10:47 pm
ref post 77 by anmolsinghji, i second his proposal for a book in english by the likes of raju kortiji, p haldarji and would also request other knowledgeable persons like h v gurumurthyji, s venkatadriji and some more of the better informed rafi-lovers to create such a unique biography on rafi sahab. perhaps there can be a sort of a “writers’ guild” within the die-hard fans of rafi sahab. such a book would sell like hot cakes i am sure. it would go a long way in showing our dedication to the memory of rafi sahab and will be a big feather in our caps. asmurty2@rediffmail.com
March 3rd, 2008 at 9:48 am
Dear Raju Korti & P Haldar,
Seeing your Knowledge and understanding of the Farishta through your writings, I am of the option that both of you should jointly pen down Rafi Sahab’s biography in English.
Possibly it would be a great feat for all the Rafi Fans, once we see the biography of this great personality all the leading stores world wide. His great qualities as a person need to be highlighted.
March 2nd, 2008 at 5:09 am
correction - not aradhana duets but aradhana *solos*! sorry i mistyped.