To say that there were duplicate Rafi’s is itself a grave error in judgment. There are no duplicate Rafi’s or clones. They appear as clones for those who do not have the understanding and clarity of listening.

It makes one wonder whether Anil biswas was truly a great MD or is he simply overrated. The fact that the male playback singer AB has used most is no one else but himself shows the reason for his shocking bias. The same applies to Chitlakar who came to be a playback singer but ended being a music director as he failed to make any impact as a singer just like AB. A vast majority of AB songs are composed for the female voice anyway.

No one tries to copy Talat simply because he had a very restricted set of vocals that suited to songs composed in 40’s and 50’s. The key word is versatility, it is where Talat and others lack where Rafisaab excels.

Further Rafisaab is a benchmark in singing and obviously aspiring singers would like to follow someone Rafi, besides Talat like others has admitted the unmatched greatness of Rafi.

It is indeed very sad that AB had to resort to such gimmicks to bring down Rafisaab, he not only failed in his mischievous efforts but in the process lost his own credibility. People claim AB retired voluntarily, well he had to with his biased and short minded approach no producer or actor would see him compose songs for their films in an era when Rafisaab was unstoppable. There was no way and MD could succeed unless they used the voice of Rafisaab for their songs.

All music directors at some stage of their career depended heavily on Rafisaab for their success. Even RD Burman who is well known with his songs with KK, only got the recognition as a good music director when he used Rafi’s voice in the 60’s. It was because of Rafisaab that he entered in the big league, a fact that people seem to overlook.

Rafisaab made music directors and not the other way around unlike other singers who depended heavily of music directors for their success.

Thanx for the cheers

sagar

Thanks for this wonderful article…….

Listing to “THE GREATEST” Rafi, is like sailing in a boat on a starry night along the nile.

WOW!! THANKS GOD FOR LENDING US THIS APOSTLE OF MUSIC.

Rafi Sahab we MISS U.

Sagar, i agree the fire has gone but the smoke remains.

Cheers!!

Pravin.

Thank you for the update about our MAESTRO RAFI SAHAB….

PAISE KA DAAMAN KABHI MEINE NAHI PAKDA …. PAISE NE MUJHE PAKADNA CHAHA … MAGAR MAIN KYA KARU … MERE PAAS LOGONKA PYAAR ITNA THA KI … PAISON KE LIYE JAGAH HI NAHI THI……

FYI : LATA MANGESHKAR IS STILL BEING PAID RS.2/- BY ALL INDIA RADIO WHENEVER HER SONG IS PLAYED ON AIR… THIS IS JUST BECAUSE IN 1967 SHE HAD A DISPUTE ON THE SAME ISSUE WITH RAFI SAHAB SAYING THAT HER VOICE IS PRECIOUS AND INSPITE OF BEING PAID BY PRODUCER … SHE SHOULD BE PAID BY THOSE WHO LISTEN TO HER VOICE… MOHD.RAFI SAHAB NEVER AGREED SO LATER HE SOME HOW REDUCED SONGS WITH HER … EFFECT WE CAN LISTEN SUMAN TAI KALYANPUR IN FIL BRAMHACHARI 1968…

SO IMAGINE 1967-2006… LATA - NIGHT TINGLING IS GETTING PAID RS.2/- PER SONG …….

” AYE KHUDA YEH TU NE KYA KIYA …. KUTTON KO CHOD KE .. SHER KO UTHA LIYA …… ” (

RAFI SAHAB WE MISS YOU.