Comments on: MOHAMMAD RAFI – The Enigma !

By: SANJIV ARORA

SANJIV ARORA — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 07:33:33 +0000

Dear Vinod Saheb

You are very lucky. I have also heard that rafi saheb had gifted a piece of land to one upcoming singer who had sung his song in a function.

Such was the greatness of this farishta

rgds

Sanjiv

By: s nawathe

s nawathe — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 10:43:59 +0000

dear Vinod ji,

How much lucky you are..to meet Rafi Sahab and Shankar ji.
We are eager to know much more from you..It will be a great favour if you can kindly unfold mysteries..and stories for us..

Regards;

s. nawathe

By: pmc thangal

pmc thangal — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 10:14:31 +0000

dear vinodji,really you are a lucky person.i read the last scene of ur article with much exitment.to sing a rafi song before sanker and at it ends rafi sab himself appear and patronoze you to continue..what a lucky situation ur aricle is as that of the songs rafi.saheedo thum ko mera salaam is favourate song .it was in the filim bazar composed by shyam sunder.

By: Imran Rustam

Imran Rustam — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 07:54:08 +0000

Mr. Vinod Kapoor,

Really I enjoyed the way you met Rafi Sb and he Praised you. It is a great honor to meet the legend. His smiling face attracts others to meet him. He always had enchanting smile on his face. His voice in talks in real life sweet like honey. I love to see him while giving interviews on tv. Infact his personality is so attractive.

Rafi sb is in our hearts not only as a great singer but also a enchanting personality.

Love You Rafi Sb.

Regards,

-Imran-

By: Manish Kumar

Manish Kumar — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 15:36:00 +0000

Thank you so much for this write up! I really enjoyed. I envy you guys having these kind of amazing experiences that many of us can only dream of! I perfectly understand if for the sake of privacy some stories from Shankar are not shared. But some day I hope you do share a few for the many of us who weren’t around when Shankar Jaikishan were churning out music. This kind of information will not be available in books and encyclopedias and people a hundred years from now will be extremely curious about these magicians.

It’s nice to know that in the 70s Shankar & Rafi kept in touch and remained the good friends that they always were. That was very re-assuring to me. My favorite combination is in fact SJ – Rafi! I look forward to any other write ups or experiences you share in the future!

By: binu nair

binu nair — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 19:07:53 +0000

Haldar saaheb, Please submit a few lines about enoch daniels works from you; which would be read out to the audience in enoch saahebs presence. he is the vip of the function and its a fitting way to honour him.

please do it, thanks, many thank s – for your views, interest and comments.

binu nair

By: binu nair

binu nair — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 19:03:52 +0000

Haldar Saaheb: yes. shankar jaikishan, op nayyar , naushad saaheb, hansraj behl, ravi sharma (malayalam and hindi songs, chaudvin ka chaand ho) , iqbal quereshi, firoz nizami, chitragupta, n.datta – and many more are our demi – gods.

shankar – jaikishan team has been outstanding . we did a three hour, 32 songs programme in mumbai on nov.16 AND a music lovers numbering 1500 enjoyed it. they were asking for more. the singers shrikant narayan, supriya, kakaji naushad and sagar enthralled. sandeep pancvhwatkar the compere from pune gave deep insights of s.j. to the audience. s.js songs were on par with the info given by sandeep panchwatkar. truly great it was. very soon i would ask shirish kulkarni to put some songs, live on this great website.

binu nair.

By: binu nair

binu nair — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 08:26:55 +0000

Post 15 : Mohd Rafi – is also called Mohd Barfi, for he was an extraordinary “sweet” person, Very sweet, extra sweet – in all his songs and speech. rafi saaheb loved sweets and pure deshi ghee, brought all the way from punjab, from ludhiana.
atlast, the sweetness only consumed him. the sweetness of his songs and the purity of his soul – travel everywhere engulfing peoples musicals minds and souls.
this is the greatness of mohd rafi – the worlds foremost singer.

By: P. Haldar

P. Haldar — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 03:09:57 +0000

binu ji, great news! I am especially happy to know that enoch daniels would be the chief guest at the pune musical extravaganza. I used to buy a lot of instrumental lp’s in my childhood and most of them were by enoch daniels and van shipley. Both of them were part of sj’s famous orchestra.

I am too small a person to provide advice to anyone, but I’d request all the rafi groups in the country to coordinate with the shankar-jaikishan group. No other md has been treated as shabbily as sj. It’s a real shame given that they were truly the superstars among md’s. Mr. Vinod Kapoor has written that Shankar shared a lot of private stories with him. I’m not sure if he’s going to share them with us but I can kind of guess some of the things that shankar told him.

By: binu nair

binu nair — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 18:13:50 +0000

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