Comments on: Hamare Rafi

by: Manish Bajaj

Fri, 28 Mar 2008 09:37:28 +0000

As far as Music is concerned and my knowledge of alaphabets is concerned right from A TO Z its just Rafisaab. The versitality and control of rafisaab is unmatched and the greatness of his singing and nature is uncomparable..

by: vikas sharma

Wed, 26 Mar 2008 15:26:01 +0000

as an great fan of rafi sahib i m bewildered that why these ordinary people have posted thier own photographs rather than the great legend.PLEASE EXPLAIN TO ME THAT WHY ARE YOU DOING THESE SORT OF STUPID THINGS

by: M.Saleem

Sun, 23 Mar 2008 15:24:28 +0000

I agree with Manish Kumar’s view that Kishore Brought a fizz in his songs. Specially with SD and RD they created magic. Kishore and his elder brother Ashok were genius in any thing they did, whether acting singing etc. Rafi on the other hand was a pure singing maestro. I recently discovered that to hum Rafi’s songs we need to close our eyes and stress it out, where as for Kishore you can just hum it out without any effort.

It is possible that the Music directors always decided the tune keeping in mind the capacity of a particular singer.

by: Harvinder

Sun, 23 Mar 2008 14:48:50 +0000

I sometimes watch K for Kishore with interest. Most performers are able to sing close to Kishore da with riaz. Such programmes need to be encouraged as this is in indication of the fact that the quality of singers today is so poor that one has to resort to past greats.

I have no doubt that some promoters are already toying with the idea of R for Rafi or some other catchy name. I hope that they do not start such a programme side by side, but only after K for Kishore is over. Kishore da has an advantage that he has his wife and son to promote and cash in on Kishore da’s popularity amongst younger fans. Amit Kumar was not able to realy establish himself and till date does programmes singning his father’s songs alongwith his half brother from Leena. I do not think that once duplicate Rafi’s like Sonu Nigam will go that extra mile as this would only tarnish his own image.

Bottom line is that I support a programme on Rafi saheb type of singning.

by: Bernard N. Singh

Wed, 19 Mar 2008 23:59:18 +0000

If i am not wrong kk only sang one song for raj kapoor in the movie pyar

by: rafian1

Wed, 19 Mar 2008 05:38:48 +0000

Post#23

Mr ANil Cherian has valid points.I do agree with you.At the beginning I too was a big fan of KK.But as I heared more and more Rafi then I realised.As you told KK’s voice is little heavy but when ever he sang with a mediom/low voice it was superb.Eg Ek ladki beegi bagi si.

by: santosh

Wed, 19 Mar 2008 04:07:03 +0000

Dear Rafi saab fans,

Pl do not compare rafi saab with any other singer.Other singers may be techinically better than rafi saab such as mannadey,yesudas etc ., but what seperates rafi saab from others is his voice.The range ,the bass, the sweetness and ofcourse as his voice increased in pitch it became more broad.It was god’s own voice.One can feel the spiritual nature , the freshness, the clarity and the piousness in rafi saab voice.It was truly reflective of his own carachter .It reflected his god fearing nature , and good consience.

So the truth is Rafi saab was is and will be the no 1 singer if not best singer interms of techinque , knowledge.

He is great as I said because of his voice.the feelings which he lent in his singing, the ease with which he reaached the high notes, the sweetness like honey in voice and the godly scent to his voice.

Long live our rafi saab

by: unknow

Tue, 18 Mar 2008 06:31:04 +0000

Dear suraj
Aadmi Musafir Hai was only song in the film singed by mohd Rafi and music by LP if am not wrong,I don’t know abount music but the way singed by Amit Kummar that was so bad I think it should be easy for a singer like Amit Kummar but that is gift of God to Mohd Rafi when they made program on KK and forgot others great names in music world like Mohd rafi,Lata,manny dey,SJ,Nuashand ali,Madan Mohan and many more but they are not able to sing mohd rafi songs it mean that God show them that Mohd Rafi is Mohd Rafi
No need to make programms on Mohd rafi because good singer should sing Mohd rafi songs to show that they are good singer

by: Hussein Sheikh

Mon, 17 Mar 2008 18:54:39 +0000

Re. post # 21: Amit Kumar totally failed in singing. It’s not the matter that he didn’t bother! You mean to say he ruined his career? Not at all. Amit kumar was given chance to sing just because of his father, and this is a fact. when KK died, no one bothered to make sing Amit Kumar in their films, maybe he sang few songs but he was washed out.

by: xxx

Mon, 17 Mar 2008 18:30:55 +0000

ref to post 22::
mr.unknow,
im agree wd u that kishore was far more great actor than singer, his comic timing was superb…but rafi ji was singing phenomenon like none other, no one was close to him..