Comments on: Kalyanji Anandji’s association with Mohammad Rafi

By: Raj1961

Raj1961 — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 03:54:26 +0000

PMC thangal the song “main hoon papa khan” is from the 1958 movie “Post Box 999″. You can see it on youtube.

By: B P BANERJEE

B P BANERJEE — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 05:46:09 +0000

i want to lata magneskar house in peddar road beside sajjan jindan JSW OFFICE is kayan anand ji living in front of jsw office pl send ne address opf bombay any contact no

By: pmc thangal

pmc thangal — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 06:56:54 +0000

the music of ka in earlier filims like samrat chandra gupt, post box 999 and be dard zamana kya jane were much more interesting than the rest of their music.there is an old comic song sung by rafi saab and geeta dutt (mai hum pappa khan madame bil bilan..)under the baton of ka .any one who knows the name of that filim please inform it in this forum.

By: Sangeetvishwa

Sangeetvishwa — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 10:27:32 +0000

Any new composer would be inspired by SJ and Kalyanjibhai was no exception.I remember one of his interview where Kalyanjibhai said that when he came to become the music director he had only one dream to becom a household name like SJ. Naturally the initial years of music of KA and LP resembles to SJ because of the influence SJ had on the industry as MD’S.

KA is probably much underrated as compared to other MD’S although they were the only ones to work in this industry for 3 decades after LP (35 years) from Parasmani to Dewana Mastana (Govinda-AnilKapoor starer).They had immense talent and kept on changing with times which was the sole reason for their survival. Other talented MD’S for instance Ravi did not survive as much as KA and LP. Infact LP was assistant to KA for some time and later on decided to start on thier own.

It is true that KA had a liking for Mukesh (may be because of the Guju-Kutchi connection) RD had liking for Kishoreda (may be because of the Bengali connection) but every music director knew that there was no substitute for the god gifted voice of Rafisahab.

SUSHIL

By: Narayan

Narayan — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 14:01:13 +0000

In one aspect I give credit to KA… They specialised in Rafi-Lata duets which were great popular hits in their career…
But as quoted by all they were great supporters of Mukesh and Mk…

By: Souvik Chatterji

Souvik Chatterji — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 07:54:24 +0000

The comments on Rafi and KA. The songs of Rafi in Jab Jab Phool Khilen like “yahan mai janabee hoon” captured the sombre mood of Rafi. Also the song “dilbar dilbar” in Shashi Kapoor’s film Haseena Mann Jayegi showed the rock and roll andaz of Rafi. Most of the songs of the film Haseena Maan Jayegi had tremendous similarity with the tunes of Shankar Jaikishan. May be during the late 60s due to high remuneration charged by Shankar Jakishan producers could not afford to hire them and KA and LP got lot of opportunities and they justified their scope with brilliant songs in combination with Rafi.

Souvik Chatterji

By: myk

myk — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 20:09:22 +0000

K-A definitely had a special liking towards Rafi, their association is excellent from 1958, with Kalyanji scoring solo before Anandji joined him the following year, right until 1980. They definitely gave Rafi a countless number of his and their best songs. Even though they supported Mukesh, they never could do without Rafi, like most composers. In fact, by 1980 Rafi had sung the most number of songs for them, followed by Kishore and then Mukesh. Ofcourse stats are not everything, but they do show another aspect of things.

Even Pancham, known to be a KK votary, also had a special liking towards Rafi-saab, contrary to popular view. Due to pressures from outside influences (Mr. Korti had mentioned something along these lines before), he probably did not get the chance to give Rafi all the songs he would have liked, but still Rafi sang so many songs for RDB, and whatever Rafi sang for RDB was pure “gold”, one just has to examine the compositions to know that no other singer including KK was capable of singing such songs. Had Rafi not passed away in 1980, Rafi would have sang more songs for RD in the 80′s onwards.

Mr. Korti, do you have any more information on what RDB said about Rafi-saab, besides the anecdotes, and Vividh Bharti interview you mentioned a while back ?. Btw, did you get a chance to meet and interview Pancham ?.

By: Harvinder

Harvinder — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 17:35:14 +0000

Ref Raju Korti post # 2.
I recently watched a recorded interview of Kalyanji in which he talked about his association with other MD’s and singers in general. When Rafi Saheb’s name was mentioned, Kalyanji bhai after having praised all other singers remarked “Dekhoji, Rafi jaisa singer koi nahi ho sakta” He went on to say that whenever an aspiring male singer came to them, they almost always tried singing “O Duniya ke rakhwale” and in 60′s and even 70′s “Dosti” songs to impress the MD’s.
Surprisngly, Kalyanji considered “Yahan main Ajnabee hoon” from Jab Jab Phool Khile as their best composition with Rafi Saheb.

By: Souvik Chatterji

Souvik Chatterji — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 04:47:19 +0000

Many composers had liking towards other singers along with Rafi. That never meant that they ignore Rafi to any extent. SJ used Mukesh extensively for Raj Kapoor, and even after honouring Salil Choudhury, KA, and other composers who had used Mukesh, any musical pandit will say that SJ had used his range most successfully. But that was only due to the suitaibility of RK’s voice with Mukesh. SJ had tremendous liking for Rafi and showed in majority of songs including “teri zulfonki” from Jab Pyar Kisi Se Hota Hai, to “janam janam ka saath hai” to “mujhko apne gale lagalo”, etc. KA’s comparison with other composers should lie on the capability of using Rafi’s range if compared with SJ, LP, Naushad, etc., rather than how many songs he had given to Mukesh or KK.
Souvik Chatterji.

By: Raju Korti

Raju Korti — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 06:21:29 +0000

according to me the best song that rafisaab sang for ka was in preet na jaane reet: “mai bewafaa nahi hoon tere pyaar ki kasam..”
but let me set the record right. ka were never known to be big votaries of rafisaab. the two came together only when the heroes insisted on rafisaab’s voice. when it came to shammi kapoor and shashi kapoor who extensively opted for rafisaab, they had to perforce use the maestro’s voice. please recall that even for these two die=hard actors, ka made it a point to use mukesh. it is a known fact that ka massively supported mukesh all along. the trend became even more marked when a poker-faced actor like manoj kumar, who initially survived on rafisaab’s largesse, suddenly went off-key, opting for mukesh. i am stating this only as a piece from history. (i have nothing against mukesh, just in case his fans start getting rauccous like sonuji nigam’s fans).
by the way, it appears to have become a trend on this website to take some lyricist, actor or some personality associated with bollywood, reel out some songs and write a piece. it is my (humble) request to please contribute something substantive about rafisaab’s singing that brings out a particular dimension of his vast range.