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regards

mohamed parvez

Wish you both and all my dear fellow Rafi Bhakts a very happy new year!

Today, I wish that all fans of the stalwarts of HFM be it Rafi or Kishore, Mukesh or Talat, Hemant or Mannada, Saigal or Pankaj Mullick, Lata or Asha, Suman or Geeta, Kamal Barot or Sharada, Mubarak or Shamshan Begum, Noor Jehan or Uma Devi..be blessed with the love of music that is liberal, large-hearted and all-encompassing.

I want us all to follow the wonderful example of our Farishta, the gentle Rafi Saab, and look forward to a beautiful, cheerful and peaceful new year, 2010.

Warm regards,
Bina

Greetings and Happy New Year.

I fully appreciate and respect the idea of your choosing to reply to my post on this thread. Your one sentence: “These guys are so serious that they do not even appreciate humour…” appropriately defines some of the KK fans who are behaving as supreme judges of all forms of music present on this planet. Meanwhile let me inform you that name P. Haldar still haunts them. Your years’ old posts are dug out, copy-pasted and discussed in a distorted way to prove how ill-behaved Rafi-fans are. Ha !!!!

But you are right… that sooner or later they might see the light. We can also hope that they develop some ‘sense of humor’ to be in sync with KK’s talents. Good wishes and ‘Happy New year’ to them too.

I am responding to your comments on this thread because the other thread is for a noble cause and I don’t want to say something that may be construed as being frivolous. I make no bones about the fact that I am a Rafi fanatic, as hardcore as one can get. But over the years, I have discovered that a lot of the KK fans are closet Rafians. So I’ve decided to tone down a bit in the hope that many of them will see the light in due course. I’ve seen this happen to many people I know, the latest addition being my doctor friend.

I never actually used to mind the chatter of the KK fans as long as they were limited to background noise. The problem with some of them is that they start showing off their ustadi. Can you imagine what Kishore da would have thought of them if he heard their discussion on various raags and raaginis, this octave and that octave, and low notes and high notes. These guys are so serious that they do not even appreciate humour — how can they call themselves Kishore da’s fans?

Sooner or later, many of them will also see the light. I’ve decided to start the New Year with the hope that they will become less serious, listen less to classical songs of southern greats, and listen more to Kishore and Rafi, which they can understand and appreciate.

A great Rafi fan like you sees goodness in everyone..thank you so much for the kind words.

And about your dream of getting closer to becoming the largest number of fans and followers of Rafi Saab…aapke moohn mein ghee shakkar (may what you say instantly come true!)

Haldar Jee:

Lota aur Rofi ke baare mein aur sunaiye!

Bina

bina ji… ur bbr team’s rafi birthday was excellent. with people like u , i can alreaydy say that – my dreams have come true – earlier than expected.
to use chandigarh friend mehtab’s words, the mission is closer. we will become – pls note this – “we will become the foremost music lovers club, worshipping mohd rafi songs and this illustrious singer on par with elvis priesly – who i am told has the largest number of fans in the world. we may also cross the figure by the sheer number of “uncounted” rafi fans the world over.
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binu nair, rafi foundation, mumbai

Greetings in the name of Rafi Saab.

I request you to send the Adresses of the President of India, of PM and of Mrs. Sonia Gandhi where people could write about their inmost desire that Rafi Sab is awarded Bharat Ratna postumously.

Many people donot know how to reach their desires and prayers for Rafi in fro9nt of the Polititions and Govt. authoritites.

Joy oravan

binu nair
rafi foundation, mumbai….
cell : 9833 250 701

ADAAB RAFI AND RAFI SAAB KI SAALGIRAH MUBARAK HO AAP SABKO..

In Bangalore, the members of Baar Baar Rafi Fan Club wished each other at 4:30 in the morning ..and with 85 songs contributed by many enthusiastic members, a CD wil soon be released to mark this day..

The highlight of our celebrations was the program for the evening where 35 children from a Charitable Trust along with their staff members were invited and all of us at BBR thoroughly enjoyed their time with us…it gave us an opportunity to become children ourselves..hum bhi agar bacche hote… playing “passing the parcel” and “musical chairs” along with them.

The evening started at 4:30 p.m. The stage was decorated with kites (including black kites) and balloons and all those who attended were very generous and the gift corner was overflowing with the love shown by each and every member. The goodies were distributed to these adorable little children aged between 4 and 11. A lovely large cake was cut by the children to the singing of Baar Baar Din Yeh Aaye..Many gifted singers from BBR namely, Asha, Alka, Lalitha, Ananya, Manish and Sahil gave us some peppy numbers too…

We then joined these happy children for dinner after which they were transported back safely to their home…

We have also had very good reports that the 85th birthday of Rafi Saab on 24th Dec, 2009, was celebrated in the two states of AP (despite several hurdles faced by the Bhakts due to the political turmoil there) and in Calicut, Kerala where singers, including Chandan, set a 2000-strong audience in Calicut aflame with joy and reverence for the the great soul with great songs….how wonderful it is for all of us to celebrate the greatness of Rafi Saab…!

Baar Baar Din Yeh Aaye..
Bina