This article is edited reproduction from Sunday Magazine; August 17 1980. It is sent to us by Mohan Flora. It was published by the Telegraph, Kolkatta. When the great Rafi Sahib left this world all of a sudden, he was enjoying a great surgence and was reigning the music charts as this article will illustrate. Furthermore, songs sung by Rafi which did not enjoy much popularity initially (due to the movies faring poorly) are more remembered than songs sung by other singers, especially in the 1977 and 1983 phase, even though Rafi Sahib left us in 1980. – Mohan Flora
This Sunday will be 25 years since we lost the voice of Mohd Rafi. But lost, says who? By Anil Grover. Since 1966, the world of Indian film music has been losing its stalwarts one by one though music has its own way of evading the sound of silence. (more…)
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