Comments on: O.P.Nayyar’s immortal relationship with Mohammad Rafi

By: vijay bavdekar

vijay bavdekar — Sun, 24 Oct 2010 10:38:58 +0000

AN IMMORTAL GLORIOUS & COLOURFUL FOUNTAIN OF MELODIOUS ROMANTIC SONGS.HATS OFF TO OP, RAFISAHEB & ASHAJI.

By: Souvik Chatterji

Souvik Chatterji — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 12:30:24 +0000

Dear Rajaramji,

Thanks for reminding the readers about the song “humne to dil ko aape ki kadmo pe rakh diya”. It was one of the most romantic tunes of OP Nayyar. Strikingly Rafi had sung his portion in his own way as opposed to the style with which Asha Bhosle had sung the song. The same thing had with other OP Nayyar tunes like “diwana hua badal” in Kashmir Ki Kali, “zulf ki chayon me chehre ka ujala lekar” in Phir Wohi Dil Laya Hoon. Rafi as brilliant as OP Nayyar in all these songs.

Souvik Chatterji

By: rajaram

rajaram — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 23:50:42 +0000

There was a film ‘NASIHAT’ with actors Dara Singh & Rajshree. It had good songs out of which one song ‘Ankhon se Ishara Karke Hame’ sung by Asha which was excellent . The film itself was not mentioned in any of the coumns by any writer. The film scene with song is in youtube. This is another sample of OP’s foot-tapping, yourthful music.

By: rajaram

rajaram — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 23:44:54 +0000

There was a song in Mere sanam sung by Rafi ‘Humne tho dil ko aap ki kadmon pe rakh diya” which is very melodious with the accompaniment of violin. No reader in this column has a word about that excellent song.

By: Souvik Chatterji

Souvik Chatterji — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 08:25:41 +0000

In the film Baharen phir bhi ayegi, in 1966, the title song “baharen phir bhi ayegi” sung by Mahendra Kapoor was a big hit.
OP Nayyar had also composed some bhajans for Rafi, an example is from the film “naya daur”, 1957 titled “ana hai to aa rah me kuch pher nahi hai.”
The film every variety of songs including “saathi haath barana” which was a chorus song having rural flavour sung by Rafi.
Souvik Chatterji.

By: Souvik Chatterji

Souvik Chatterji — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 08:48:30 +0000

OP Nayyar’s songs in Mere Sanam, 1965, sung by Rafi, were all superhits including, pukarta chala hoon mai, humdum mere maan bhi jayo, hue hai tumpe ashiq hum, bhala mano bura mano. Some were beat oriented, others had the flavour of twist, but the santoor, guitar and sarengi were used with elegance by OP Nayyar.
Souvik Chatterji.

By: Souvik Chatterji

Souvik Chatterji — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 04:42:39 +0000

OP Nayyar’s songs sung by Mohammad Rafi became hits even in those films which did not get box office success. Example is dil ki awaaz bhi sun from film Humsaya. Although the film with Joy Mukherjee did not do well, the songs wre successful.
OP Nayyar even asked Rafi to sing all the songs for Raj kapoor’s film Do Ustad, 1959, of which some of the notable songs include nazron ke tir mare kas kas kas and tu larki mai ladka. Rafi’s voice even suited him who generally received playback from Mukesh.
Souvik Chatterji

By: RAMAKRISHNA

RAMAKRISHNA — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 09:11:42 +0000

Shalini jee I appreciate your comments. They are free, frank & fearless. but i would like to say in the past I gave my comments which are of lesser in magnitude than those of yours & i got so many advices that i should not do like this. even I got the designation as ‘ head master’ from one of the readers. of course it matters null for me. for me its Rafi Sahab & its his forum.

‘hagiography’ means ‘ writing & critical study of the lives of the saints’ so you treat Rafi sahab as a saint. thats just superb shalini jee. in my previous articles i too wrote Rafi sahab as Saint and even I tell my friends, ‘ look at the photograph of Rafi sahab. observe the smile. its a saintly smile’. you cant get this sort from normal people like us.
since you have a good vocabulary any thing wrong here you are free to advise madam.

By: shashank chickermane

shashank chickermane — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 03:21:31 +0000

i love his songs & most of his songs sung by rafi & asha. so we lost OPNayyar also.

shashank_72@rediffmail.com

By: Shalini

Shalini — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 13:12:17 +0000

I’m sorry, but this is one of the most poorly written and researched articles I’ve ever come across. The grammatical and factual errors are too numerous to count and the hagiography of Rafi is comical. Rafi and OPN were extraordinary artists and deserve better than this thoughtless, slapdash effort.