Comments on: My visit to RAFI MANSION on 5th and 6th june 2010

By: farrukh

farrukh — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 05:05:40 +0000

Hi, farrukh from lahore.

I can only see that time will never see such a great singer ever again. Please keep this site running and thank you very much for sharing this much valuable information.

Love and prayers for Rafi Shb

From Lahore

By: sppareek

sppareek — Sat, 06 Aug 2011 18:34:28 +0000

kindly let me know the address of Rafi Shaab’s house, so that i can visit my dream. I’ll ever remain thankfull for whole of my life ,if i could get his address and can make a visit to his house.

By: sanjay tamta

sanjay tamta — Sun, 10 Jul 2011 09:28:39 +0000

dear sir,

aap ka jitna bhi sukriya kiya jaye kam he.Rafi shaab ki
jindegi se jude andekhe pehluo ko samne lane ke liye.

thank you

By: hameed_dawar

hameed_dawar — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 15:06:39 +0000

Rafi jesa gayak naa to kabhi aaya hai aur naa hi kabhi aayega kyon ki allah paak ne jo aawaz unhe di hai aur kisi gayak ke paas nahi hai ……….allah unhe jannat naseeb kare …….aamin

By: sanjeev joshi

sanjeev joshi — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 10:27:36 +0000

dearest dixit ji.
I am very ha am happy that you visited mumbai and fulfill your dream.i am very pleased to see the rare pictures of rafi sahib.so keep on doing the good work

By: girish kelekar

girish kelekar — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 11:02:38 +0000

I was working in an Architect’s office on linking road bandra in 1976. At 2.30 p.m. on vividbharati ,rafisahab’s “tute hue khabone” no. was played, I was listning the no, by the time it got over, a person entered the Office, in white cloths, He looked at the Chair of my Boss and made a gusture, I said , The Architect shall come at 3o’clock. He turned back and was leaving the Office, I went behind and Asked him His Name ” mohammed Rafi”. I was totally overwelmed. …… Next time when he came I stared talking to him but to my surprise, rafi sahab never replied, Najeer sahab told me that he dosent talk, one has to listen to his records…..I said Rafisahab …you have sung song in my language “Kokani”…………after that I saw one of his recording with SJ ,film Yakeen……..To me he is the greatest singer..and a humble humanbeing ……..If my voice was like him …I would have never practise Architecture profession…..girish kelekar.16\11\2010

By: bharati.k

bharati.k — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 06:22:41 +0000

I VISITED Rafi mansion on 10th November 2010. Unfotunately there was nobody at home. I think we all Rafi fans must see to it that he gets Bharat Ratna . Shocking that he did not get Dada saheb Phalke . I think Her Majesty LAta has some role in it.

Bharati

By: Steve Annison

Steve Annison — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 14:47:38 +0000

I would just like to add a note about one of his sons – Hamid. I went to school with him in the early 1970s and we were good friends. I was upset to see that he passed away in 1995. He was quite a character with a great sense of humour.
The school was not a boarding school or private school but an ordinary state school in West London.
I had the privelage of meeting Mohammed on a couple of occasions when he visited, though unfortunately I did not hear him sing.

By: Mohd.Rehan

Mohd.Rehan — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 15:28:40 +0000

Rafi Sahab was a great singer,no one can take his place.

By: P. Haldar

P. Haldar — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 02:59:05 +0000

post 127:

Dear Mr. D. P. Bijoor Saab,

Thanks for the correction. Being a resident of Bandra, you would know the exact details. You are so lucky that you stayed so close to Rafi saab’s house; I would have done anything to trade places with you. Staying hundreds of miles away from Bombay, I could only imagine things in my mind’s eyes.

I knew that Rafi saab used to stay in a different house in Bandra before he moved to Rafi Villa. From your account, it seems that the old house was Sea Bird. If I’m not mistaken, Manna da used to be his next-door neigbour there.

The confusion arose because the picture on the cover of the “An Evening with Mohd Rafi” LP has Rafi saab standing with his right palm on a multi-coloured tiled wall with his Audi in the background (not the foreground, as I had mistakenly written earlier). I’m recalling this from memory as I don’t have the LP with me anymore — I made the mistake of lending the LP to one of my friends. This LP was released sometime in the late 60s, if I’m not mistaken. In the inset of “Around the World” LP, which was released around 1977, the musicians in Rafi saab’s orchestra appear with the same patterned tiles in the background, which made me believe that the older picture was inside Rafi villa.

Thanks for providing the correct details.

Regards,
P. Haldar