Re: Heavenly voices of Rafi and Lata
Alas, I have lost my appetite to write these days, otherwise, I would have written a thesis on rafi saheb and that whole period 1950-1980…All i can say thank you Rafi saheb for not coming back to Pakistan after partition and staying in india. and it is not an emotional statement. i really mean it. rafi would have been wasted in pakistan just like noor jahan who was reduced to singing to cheap Punjabi songs and lost her melodious voice of 1940s…
rafi’s greatness can be measured from the fact that hundreds tried to copy but no one got the same pitch, the same reach, the same melodiousness, the same softness, the same rhythm. in 80s, Mohammed aziz and shabeer kumar tried their best but missed the magic. sonu nagam is simply pathetic but apprecite his passion for rafi.
rafi created stars. what rafi did to shammi kapoor is legendary. there will never be a dancing start like shammi kapoor but rafi had a huge role to play in creating star out of shammi…rajendra kumar benefited a lot as well. dev anand and dilip kumar got the benefit in 1950s…
Well said. Rafi’s voice conveyed the emotion in the song like no one else could. The lilt in his voice for a happy song, the pathos for sad songs - Guru Dutt songs - were unmatched. The softness, the superb pronunciation of both Urdu and khadi boli.
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