Comments on: Mohammed Rafi sings for C. Ramchandra – Humko Tumhara Hee Aasra

By: Belgaumi

Belgaumi — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 14:53:58 +0000

All 3 artists – C.Ramchandra, Mohd.Rafi and Talat Mehmood are legeds
in the field of Hindi film music.

However, in one of his articles, Raju Bhartan has written that CR did not regard Rafi as a great singer, but OK kind of singer. CR liked Talat more and gave him some of his best compositions. Even, Salil Choudhary, Bhartan mentions, did not find Rafi great whereas Rafi excellently sang some of best compositions like Toote hui khwabon mein, Bhool Jayen saare gam etc.

Be as it may, Rafi was darling of other legandary composers like Naushad, Madan Mohan, SD Burman, Raushan. Wi th OP Nayyar, Rafi’s rapport was
so perfece that both of them gave us innumerable melodies.

By: parag

parag — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 04:11:55 +0000

answer of post 13 the female singer is lata mangeshker who is the reason of rift between the rafi and c.ramchandra.

By: Anmol Singh

Anmol Singh — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 18:47:47 +0000

Gaurav Bijoor Ji,

Thanks for writing such an information article on the Rafi-C Ramchander association. I was not aware of many facts till date.

By: nitish sinha

nitish sinha — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 14:46:16 +0000

@Binu Bhai,
Gul Baloch is not first released!!!
Recently I was going through an interview of Shamshad Beghum Sahiba and she clearly mentioned in that interview that she and Mohammed Rafi made their debut in the same film and the film was not Gul Baloch but a film released much before that.
I think this is most un-believable news for each one of us.
kyon Binu bhai?
But I think this news is true and this song is available!!
But before saying anything more , I would love to wait for comments from music lovers.

By: nitish sinha

nitish sinha — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 14:17:20 +0000

refer post#28 &# 29:
please go through the last interview of rafisaab:
http://www.mohdrafi.com/newspapers/rafis-last-interview.html
here rafisaab clearly states that his first hindi song is from the film Laila Majnu.
this song was recorded in 1942 and released in 1945.
In the same interview rafisaab refers the song from Gaon Ki Gori(recorded in 1944).The duet he is mentioning is “main kheton ka panchhi”.
RafiSaab sung two songs in Gaon KI gori and three songs in Pehle Aap(all are available easily).songs from GKG recorded before the songs of Pehle Aap.
However song from gul baloch(released on 28 feb 1944) is really missing.

By: MR D P BIJOOR

MR D P BIJOOR — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 06:50:16 +0000

Post 24, 25, 26 & 28
The first hindi song of Rafi Saab was from the film “Pahele Aap” which was released in the year 1944 with music scored by Naushad Saab & written by D N Madhok. The words of the song was “Hindusthan ke hum hindusthan hamara hindu muslim dono kee aankh ka tara”. This song was in fact a samhugeet and hence in this song one will observe that the other voices or singers with Rafi Saab are the voices of Shyamkumar & Allauddinjee.

By: binu nair

binu nair — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 19:14:57 +0000

POST 25…..Nitin bhai : I have cd video of film gaon ki gori – in hindi – which states that mohd rafis first song is from this movie . the song being : “Ye dil kaabu me ho to.” ….tuned by sham sunder.

the first play back song of mohd rafi is from – punjabi film “gul baloch” tuned by shyam sunder … I am searching for this song in audio form.Please help…

Binu Nair

By: Mr Nitin D Dhareshwar

Mr Nitin D Dhareshwar — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 05:22:21 +0000

Gauravjee please accept my hearty compliments for a superb article on the great music director C Ramchandra.

Chitalkar as very few are aware was in fact a great admirer & and a fan of the greatest Rafi Saab and he never ever missed an opportunity in taking the right decision of allowing Mohammed Rafi to sing under his music composition but for the sake of the great lady singer the overall situation today sounds different.

Gaurav Bijoor as all are aware is the rising son of Mr D P Bijoor, born in the year March 1981 and is just the age of 28 years today and it is for all of us to just observe the circumstances he has dared to touch in his article which ranges right between the golden period of 1944-1945.
Prior to writing this article he has personally shown the draft of this lovely article to me his dad and also to those many who were associated with C Ramchandra either closely or otherwise and only then he has finalized this article after knowing & collecting the correct information. In fact he has been working on this beautiful chapter almost since the past 6 to 8 months.
This sheer hard work and dedication and most importantly the love & respect for the master musician Chitalkar Ramchandra and our own dearest Rafi Saab is seen very clear in this article.

Please keep up this good work continued Gauravjee and also try to emulate this love & dedication continued.

By: binu nair

binu nair — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:33:42 +0000

Post 24 : A CORRECTION & REQUEST…..

THE FIRST SOLO SONG OF RAFI SAAHEB IS FROM “hamara sansar”, tuned by pt.govindram. Rafi record keepers may pls. confirm this .

binu nair, mumbai

By: nitish sinha

nitish sinha — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 04:04:04 +0000

Binu bhai,
I think RafiSaab recorded his first hindi song for the film Laila Majnu(MD:Pt Govindram, Lyric:Tanveer Naqvi) and the song was ‘tera jalwa jisne dekha deewana ho gaya(co sung by SD Batish, chorus).Some part of the song was picturised on rafisaab himself. The main cast of the film was Swarnalata and Nazir.This song was recorded as early as in 1944 but released in 1945.In the same year, Hamara Sansar(1945, MD:Govindram, Lyric:Ramesh Gupta) was released, with two songs by rafisaab:
1.ai dile naaqam tamanna(solo)
2.chhoti si ek banayenge nayya(with zohrabai,shamshad)
For Pt Govindram, Rafi Saab sung three more songs in 1946 and one in `947 .
Pt Govindram was a very talented MD and was elder brother of the celebrated MD duo(first duo of HFI!) husnalal bhagatram.
Second recorded hindi song was for the film Gaon ki Gori(or village girl as is called, ) was released in 1945 but recorded in 1944.the song was ye dil kaboo me ho to dildar ki aisi ki taisi(with durrani); what an effortless singing by rafisaab in this song at such an early stage, clearly scoring over his counterpart durrani, who was a name those days for such type of fun songs!This song was composed by Shyamsunder who gave rafisaab the real break in Gul Baloch.
RafiSaab recorded three more songs, for the film Pehle Aap in the same year.
Amazingly, name of rafisaab was not mentioned in the credis of the film!
His name appears first time in the credits of ARAB KA SITARA(1946) in which rafisaab sung a very nice duet ‘roshan sa ek sitara(MD:S Qureshi, Lyric:Shevan Rizvi)
Correct me if I am wrong.