Comments on: Mahendra Kapoor: The Real “Shagird” of Mohammed Rafi

By: Professor

Professor — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 11:52:54 +0000

Mahendra Kapoor or Rafi Saheb 2 whatever we may call hi. but aaahhhhhh……. what a singer he was…. how can one forget “Na Muh Chuppa ke jiyo” from HUMRAZ. This is the song only Rafi Saheb could have sung beside Kapoor Saheb. Yes Mahendra Kapoor was underrated by our film industry but his songs prove what his class was. He was the only one who could match Rafi Saheb when it comes to singing…

“WHEREVER YOU ARE YOU WILL REMAIN IN OUR HEARTS & YOUR SONGS WILL ALWAYS REMAIN WITH US.”

By: gokuldas kumar.m

gokuldas kumar.m — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 15:17:54 +0000

I have great respect for the range of this great singer’s voice. But, Rafi always excelled because Mahendra Kapoor could not retain the sweetness and melody of Rafi’s voice in high pitches. Even in high pitches, Rafi’s voice remained melodious. That made all the difference!!

By: ananthsagar

ananthsagar — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 07:23:30 +0000

The headline should be ” Rafi the real chela of Mahendra Kapoor”. Mahendra Kapoor voice is distict and meladous. But only few sad songs and high pitched songs of Rafi are popular.

By the way Kishore Da is the God of Indian playback singing.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 00:18:43 +0000

Hey man what can i do? Actually i don’t like both of their voice. I love high cord vocal like kisor da mukesh’s.

By: Bhupinder

Bhupinder — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 18:23:05 +0000

By the way, may I request for this song by Mohd.Rafi
‘ Gulon ke rang Sitaron ki roshni de doon’

If any one has this as mp3 etc, please email it to me, I shall be very greatful to you.

Many thanks,
Bhupinder

By: Bhupinder

Bhupinder — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 18:05:04 +0000

With great respect to Mohd Rafi and Mahendra Kapoor, they both have been on their top at their best. I am very fond of these both singers. They were both born in Amritsar, and so was I, may be a coincident ! It is very sad that we have lost these talented artists from our music industry. May their souls rest in peace.

They will be greatly missed. And this goes for all others, Kishore, Mukesh,Hemant, Talat ………

By: Ravi

Ravi — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 10:15:35 +0000

Can somebody confirm or reject this. There’s a guy from Lahore claiming on YT (YouTube) that Mahendra Kapoor stated in an interview on Zee TV that Rafi suffered descrimination because he was a muslim. He has particularly singled out SD Burman and Lata and is saying that Rafi had to wait for couple of hours to be picked up after concerts in favour of others or something to that effect.
I have never heard this crap. What to Rafi experts think? Plz let me know.
Many thanks.

By: shashank

shashank — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 13:55:42 +0000

I feel lot of music composers were not serious that Mahendrakapoor and Mohdrafi should had a duet songs in their time. they missed it completely, also music composer Ravi was the instrumental for both the singers. But there is some unique episodes like Talat mohd & Mukesh didnt sang, Kishorekumar & Hemant kumar didnt sang duets. So, it is Rafisahab who sang with every and each new singers like Shailendra Singh and others. He is the sweetest singer all the time

By: A.T.M. SALIM

A.T.M. SALIM — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 04:42:26 +0000

CORRECTION FOR MY POST-21:

DEAR BIMANJI

I HAVE MISTAKENLY MENTIONED THE SINGERS FOR THE SONG ” CHOD KAR TERA PYAR KA DAMAN ….” FROM THE FILM ‘ WOH KAUN THI ‘ AS RAFI SAHAB & ASHAJI BUT IT SHOULD BE : RAFI SAHAB & LATA MANGESHKARJI .

REGARDS/ A.T.M. SALIM.

By: A.T.M. SALIM

A.T.M. SALIM — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 14:09:11 +0000

DEAR BIMANJI

YOU HAVE WRITTEN A VERY GOOD ARTICLE ( AS A TRIBUTE ) ON MAHENDRA KAPOORJI !

BESIDE SOLO SONGS , MAHENDRA KAPOORJI HAS RENDERED MANY BEAUTIFUL & SWEET DUETS WITH LATAJI & ASHAJI :

1) ” CHOD KAR TERA PYAR KA DAMAN…” ( WITH ASHAJI ;FILM : WOH KAUN
THI ) ;

2) ” AAJA RE … ” ( WITH LATAJI ; FILM : OONCHE LOG ) ;

3) ” AAJ KI MULAQAT BAS ITNI…” ( WITH LATAJI ;FILM : BHAROSA ) ;

4) ” HUMNE JO DEKHE SAPNE….” ( WITH LATAJI ;FILM: PARIVAR ) ;

5) “TUJHKO MERA PYAR PUKARE…” ( WITH ASHAJI ; FILM : GUMRAH ) ;

6) ” O NEELE PARBATON KI DHARA…” ( WITH ASHAJI ; FILM: ADMI AUR
INSAAN ) .

BUT ONE DUET I MUST MENTION HERE IS ABOUT A MALE DUET , THAT IS ,
MAHENDRA KAPOORJI HAS RENDERED A DUET WITH RAFI SAHAB TOO !

THE DUET IS FROM THE FILM : ” ADMI ” AND THE SONG IS ” KAISE HASEEN RAAT ….”
THIS SONG IS NOT RELEASED BY ‘ SAREGAMA’ COMPANY IN RECORD/CASSETTE/CD TILL DATE. THIS SONG IS RETAINED IN THE FILM “ADMI” ITSELF . AT FIRST , THIS DUET GOT RECORDED IN THE VOICES OF RAFI SAHAB AND TALAT MEHMOOD SAHAB AND THUS GOT RELEASED IN RECORDS. THEN THIS SONG WAS RE-RECORDED BY NAUSHAD SAHAB IN THE VOICE OF RAFI SAHAB & MAHENDRAJI TO SUIT THE ACTORS -DILIP KUMAR AND MANOJ KUMAR RESPECTIVELY AND HENCE RETAINED IN THE FILM ONLY .

BEST REGARDS/ A.T.M. SALIM.