Jap Eye celebrates the singer with a heaven-sent voice on his forty third demise anniversary by amassing tributes which have been paid to him throughout the many years from legends
By:
Asjad Nazir
THIS week marks the demise anniversary of one in all Bollywood’s best male-playback singers Mohammed Rafi, who sadly handed away on July 31, 1980, after struggling a coronary heart assault.
Regardless of being solely 55 when he died, the magically voiced icon left behind a powerful physique of labor that continues to entertain audiences and encourage music artists.
The 1000’s of songs, together with alltime classics, stay a everlasting a part of widespread tradition and why he’ll at all times be remembered globally.
Jap Eye determined to have fun the singer with a heaven-sent voice by amassing tributes which have been paid to him throughout the many years from legends, together with those that have handed away.
Manna Dey: He was such a gentleman. He was a greater singer than me, and I’ll say this, that nobody got here even near him. He deserved every little thing he obtained. We had an incredible understanding, and it was by no means about one-upmanship.
Asha Bhosle: The fantastic thing about Rafi saab is that proper from the door of the studios, he would begin wishing everybody, ‘aadab’. He would by no means combat with anybody. If anybody stated one thing to him, he would keep quiet and wouldn’t reply. I’d get irritated. I’d ask him why he wouldn’t reply again. He would then inform me to let it go, there was no level in replying. Woh Allah ke aadmi the (he was a person of god). He would by no means reward himself – the pleasure of his reputation wouldn’t even present on his face.
Sonu Nigam: Rafi saab is god to me. I’ve grown up listening to him and imitating him in my early years.
Kishore Kumar: I had nice regard for Rafi – a singer of a uncommon calibre.
Jagjit Singh: Rafi saab had immense versatility and a capability to tackle the character of the hero on whom the music was filmed. Each time you hear a Rafi music, you see the hero, you possibly can vividly put in place the state of affairs and appropriately entry the temper.
Nitin Mukesh: Amongst his contemporaries, my father’s (Mukesh) favorite singer was Mohammed Rafi. He beloved Rafi saab’s voice and believed that no person might change him.
Khayyam: Rafi saab was the pleasure of India. His voice and recollections are nonetheless with us although his physique has left us.
Amitabh Bachchan: What can one probably say on one which possessed perfection.
OP Nayyar: I beloved Mohammed Rafi. His demise was a giant loss to me. Once I composed for Shammi Kapoor or Johnny Walker, he managed to sound like them. He sang so many fantastic songs for me. Rafi miyan was a beautiful individual. No person can ever be in comparison with him.
Raj Kapoor: On this planet of music, the uncrowned king of singing has left us.
Manmohan Desai: Mohammed Rafi – I worship this man. I’ve been his best fan – I ought to name it ‘devotee’. Ever since I used to be a child, I keep in mind I used to go to his recordings, hear him, and I used to go and contact his ft. After which, when my movies began, he sang all my songs. And I personally really feel he died at a really younger. I really feel it was the voice of a god. And the gods needed to listen to him personally, that’s the reason they took him up so younger.
Naushad: He earned respect, and his reputation touched the sky. The magic of his voice enthralled the entire world. His reputation, respect and wealth all elevated tremendously, but he at all times remained modest. Like a fruit-bearing tree, the extra he fructified, the extra he bent in entrance of the world. His coronary heart was crammed with worry of god and the love for fact. Generosity and altruism had been a part of his system. god and fact had been the one sources of inspiration for him.
Lata Mangeshkar: What a voice. It might transfer mountains. Once I sang with Rafi saab I needed to be on my toes. His data of the ragas and Hindustani classical sangeet made him formidable within the recording room. We took up very difficult compositions collectively and I’m proud to say we got here out with flying colors.
Anand Bakshi: Even at present after I write one thing I think about how it could sound if Rafi saab had sung it. His place can by no means be stuffed once more.
Laxmikant: He was an incredible human being. He would by no means ask what he was going to be paid for a music. Other than waving off funds, he even helped producers financially. He’d assist out the needy. He at all times gave with out considering of the returns. As soon as Rafi recorded six songs in a day for us. Think about, he might memorise six songs in a day! And he might do that at stay recordings and never by way of the simple dubbing methodology that’s on at present.
The demand for Mohammed Rafi’s songs is phenomenal. No different singer, not even Lata Mangeshkar, has been capable of appeal to such an amazing following. It’s virtually as if he had been nonetheless alive.
Shammi Kapoor: Once I was instructed Rafi saab had handed away, I wept. I felt like my voice had been taken away. However he was immortal, and his stunning voice might be there without end, with the melodious songs he left us. He sang them in a manner solely he might. I miss him dearly.
Pankaj Udhas: I keep in mind there was heavy rain after I heard in regards to the passing of Rafi it was as if the sky was weeping. No matter you say about him won’t ever be sufficient. All I can say is that it was a blessing to have met Rafi saab, heard him sing many occasions and seen him document. I really feel lucky to have made these moments with him. I listened to him since childhood and discovered quite a bit listening to him.
Dilip Kumar: Mohammed Rafi had the god-given means to mould and adapt his rendering of a quantity in accordance with the given state of affairs within the movie, the characters, temper of the time, the general nature and disposition of the character within the movie and the milieu of the movie.
Dev Anand: Rafi saab is certainly immortal and can at all times be round and in our hearts and soul. I like his voice and vary immensely.
