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24) THE VIDEO: BAHARON PHOOL BARSAO MERA MEHBOOB AYA HAI
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25) EHSAAN TERA HOGA MUJH PAR
http://www.mastimag.com/download.php?song_id=28647
Ehasaan teraa hogaa mujh par, dil chaahataa hai vo kahane do
You will make me grateful, let me say what the heart wants
Mujhe tum se muhabbat ho gai hai
I have fallen in love with you
Mujhe palakon ki chhaano mein rahane do
Let me stay in the shadows of your eye lids (close to you)
Ehasaan teraa hogaa mujh par, dil chaahataa hai vo kahane do
You will make me grateful, let me say what the heart wants
Mujhe tum se muhabbat ho gai hai
I have fallen in love with you
Mujhe palakon ki chhaano mein rahane do
Let me stay in the shadows of your eye lids (close to you)
Tumne mujhko hasna sikhaaya ho
You have taught me to laugh
Tumne mujhko hasna sikhaaya
You have taught me to laugh
Rone kahoge ro lenge ab
If you tell me to cry, I will cry
Rone kahoge ro lenge ab
If you tell me to cry, I will cry
Aansoo ka hamaare gham na karo
Do not feel sad about my tears
Woh behte hai to behne do
Let it flow if it wants to
mujhe tumse mohabbat ho gayi hai
I have fallen in love with you
Mujhe palko ki chaav mein rehne do
(Let me stay in the shadows of your eyelids
Ehsaan tera hoga mujh par
You will make me grateful
Chaahe banaa do chaahe mitaa do aaaa
It is up to you to make or break me
Chaahe banaa do chaahe mitaa do
It is up to you to make or break me
Mar bhi gaye to denge duvaayen
Even if I die, I will give you by blessings
Mar bhi gaye to denge duvaayen
Even if I die, I will give you my blessings
Udd udd ke kahegi khaak sanam
Even the ashes will blow in the wind and say
Yeh dard-e-mohabbat sehne do
My lover let me suffer the sorrows of love)
Mujhe tumse mohabbat ho gayi hai
(I have fallen in love with you)
Mujhe palko ki chaav mein rehne do
(Let me stay in your eyes forever)
Ehasaan teraa hogaa mujh par, dil chaahataa hai vo kahane do
You will make me grateful, let me say what the heart wants
Mujhe tum se muhabbat ho gai hai
I have fallen in love with you
Mujhe palakon ki chhaano mein rahane do
Let me stay in the shadows of your eye lids (close to you)
BEAUTIFUL SONG, GREAT POETRY:
Trans: Madhu
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25) EHSAAN TERA HOGA MUJH PAR
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26) IS RANG BADALTI DUNIYA MEIN
http://www.mastimag.com/download.php?song_id=28325
(Is Rang Badalatii Duniyaa Mein
In this ever-changing world,
Inasaan Kii Niiyat Thiik Nahiin
Manâs intentions are not so good
Nikalaa Na Karo Tum Saj Dhajakar
Donât come out all dressed up
Emaan Kii Niiyat Thiik Nahiin,)2
Honor does not have the old value any more
Is Rang Badalatii Duniyaa Mein
In this ever-changing world
(Ye Dil Hai Badaa Hii Diivaanaa
This heart is very crazy
Chhedaa Na Karo Is Paagal Ko)2
Donât incite this mad thing
Tum Se Na Sharaarat Kar Baithe
Least it make mischief with you
Naadaan Kii Niiyat Thiik Nahiin,
It is naÃŊve, it does not think straight
Is Rang Badalatii Duniyaa Mein
In this ever-changing world
(Kaandhe Se Hataa Lo Sar Apanaa
Remove your head from my shoulders
Ye Pyaar Muhabbat Rahane Do)2
This love and romance, let it be
Kashtii Ko Sambhaalo Maujon Say
Protect your boat from the waves,
Tuufaan Kii Niiyat Thiik Nahiin,
The storm has no good intentions
Is Rang Badalatii Duniyaa Mein
In this ever-changing world
(Main Kaise Khudaa Haafiz Kah Duun
How can I entrust you to God
Mujhako To Kisii Kaa Yakeen Nahiin)
I do not trust any one at all
Chhup Jaao Hamaarii Aankhon Mein
Come and hide in my eyes
Bhagavaan Kii Niiyat Thiik Nahiin
Godâ intentions may not be good
(Is Rang Badalatii Duniyaa Mein
In this ever-changing world,
Inasaan Kii Niiyat Thiik Nahiin
Manâs intentions are not so good
Nikalaa Na Karo Tum Saj Dhajakar
Donât come out all dressed up
Emaan Kii Niiyat Thiik Nahiin,)2
Honor does not have the old value any more
Trans: Venkat
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27) AAJ PURANI RAHON SE KOI MUJHE AWAAZ NA DE
http://www.mastimag.com/download.php?song_id=11530
Oo ho hoo oo hoo hoo
(Aaj Purani Rahon Se Koi Mujhe Aawaz Na De)2
Today from that worn out paths no one should call me
Dard Mein Dubey Geet Na De Gham Ka Sisakta Saz Na De
Or remind me of songs and verses full of grief and sorrows
Oo ho hoo oo hoo hoo
(Beete Dinon Ki Yaad Thi Jinmein Maein Woh Tarane Bhool Chuka)2
I have forgotten the old memories and those old melodies
Aaj Nai Manzil Hai Meri Kal Ke Thikaane Bhool Chuka
Today I have a new purpose and have forgotten the old destinations
Na Woh Dil Na Sanam Na Woh Deen Dharam
Neither that heart nor love or faith nor religion
Ab Door Hoon Sare Gunahon Se
Now I am far away from all my sins
(Aaj Purani Rahon Se Koi Mujhe Aawaz Na De)2
Today from that worn out paths no one should call me
Toot Chuke Sab Pyar Ke Bandhan Aaj Koi Zanjeer Nahin
All that bondages of love and binding chains are no more
Sheesha-E-Dil Mein Armaano Ki Aaj Koi Tasveer Nahin
There is no desires in this frail heart and there is no portrait
Ab Shaad Hoon Maein Aazad Hoon Maein
Now I am happy and I am independent
Kuch Kaam Nahin Hai Aahon Se
There is now use in sighs
(Aaj Purani Rahon Se Koi Mujhe Aawaz Na De)2
Today from that worn out paths no one should call me
Dard Mein Dubey Geet Na De Gham Ka Sisakta Saz Na De
Or remind me of songs and verses full of grief and sorrows
Oo ho hoo oo hoo hoo
Jeewan Badalaa, Duniyaan Badalee Man Ko Anokhaa Gyaan Milaa
It is a new life, a new world and my mind has received knowledge
Aaj Mujhe Apane Hee Dil Me, Ek Nayaa Insaan Milaa
Today I have found myself anew and I have peace of mind
Pahuchaa Hoo Wahaa, Naheen Door Jahaa
I have reached here finally
Bhagawaan Bhee Meree Nigaahon Se
I can even see the almighty
(Aaj Purani Rahon Se Koi Mujhe Aawaz Na De)2
Today from that worn out paths no one should call me
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27) THE VIDEO: AAJ PURANI RAHON SE KOI MUJHE AWAAZ NA DE
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28) TU IS TARAH SE MEREE ZINDAGEE
http://www.songs.pk/artists.php?songid=1020
(Tu is tarah se meree zindagee mein shaamil hain)2
You are attached in my life in such a harmonious way,
jahaan bhee jaaoo ye lagataa hain teree mahafil hain
Wherever I go, it seems that only your presence is everywhere,
Tu is tarah se meree zindagee mein shaamil hain
You are attached in my life in such a harmonious way,
(ye aasamaan ye baadal ye raasate ye hawaa)2
This wide sky, this dark cloud, these paths, this breeze,
har yek cheez hain apanee jagah thhikaane se
Everything is at their respective states, well coordinated
kaee dinon se shikaayat naheen zamaane se
There is no lamentations towards the world nowadays,
ye zindagee hain safar, too safar kee manjil hain
Life is a journey, and you're the destination of this journey,
jahaan bhee jaaoo ye lagataa hain teree mahafil hain
Wherever I go, it seems that only your presence is everywhere,
Tu is tarah se meree zindagee mein shaamil hain
You are attached in my life in such a harmonious way,
(tere baghair jahaan mein koyee kamee see thee)2
Without you, there was a certain hollow absence in this world,
bhatak rahee thee jawaanee andheree raahon mein
My youth was wandering in the benighted dark paths,
sukoon dil ko milaa, aake teree baahon mein
After coming to your embrace, I've procured restness for my heart,
main ik khoyee huyee mauj hoo, too saahil hain
I'm nothing but a lost tide, and you're the ocean,
jahaan bhee jaaoo ye lagataa hain teree mahafil hain
Wherever I go, it seems that only your presence is everywhere,
Tu is tarah se meree zindagee mein shaamil hain
You are attached in my life in such a harmonious way,
(tere jamaal se roshan hain ka ay naat meree)2
My whole world is shining with your beauty,
meree talaash teree dilakashee rahe baakee
May my search, your enticement , be there forever,
khudaa kare ke ye diwaanagee rahe baakee
may it be God's will, that my madness be there forever,
teree wafaa hee meree har khushee kaa hasil hain
Your fidelity is the source of my each and every happiness,
jahaan bhee jaaoo ye lagataa hain teree mahafil hain
Wherever I go, it seems that only your presence is everywhere,
Tu is tarah se meree zindagee mein shaamil hain
you are mingled in my life in such a harmonious way,
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28) THE VIDEO: TU IS TARAH SE MEREE ZINDAGEE
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MOVIE : PATTHAR KE SANAM 1967
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LYRICS: MAJROOH SULTANPURI
MUSIC : LAXMIKANT PYARELAL
29) PATTHAR KE SANAM TUJHE HUMNE
http://www.mastimag.com/download.php?song_id=42652
(Patthar ke sanam, tujhe hamane, muhabbat kaa Khudaa jaanaa)2
Oh heartless lover you are so mercilessI I worshipped you
bari bhuul hui, are hamane, ye kyaa samajhaa ye kyaa jaanaa
I have made a mistake in understanding you, what did I know.
patthar ke sanam,
O heartless lover,
cheharaa teraa dil mein liye, chalate chale angaaron pe
I kept walking on fire by keeping you in my heart
(tuu ho kahin,)2 sajade kiye hamane tere rukasaron pe
No matter where you were, I worshipped your beauty
ham saa na ho, koi diwaanaa,
There can be no one, as crazy as me,
patthar ke sanam,
O heartless lover,
(socha tha ke badh jaayengi tanhaaiyaan jab raaton mein)
I thought that there might be loneilness that dark night
(rasta hamein)2 dikhlaayengi shama-e-wafa in ankhon ki
the light of faith/fidelity in your eyes would show me the way
Thokar lagii, jab pahachaanaa,
I realised when I was hurt
patthar ke sanam,
O heartless lover,
(ai kaash ke hoti Kabar tuune kise Thukaraayaa hai)
I wish you would have realised your mistake
(shiishaa nahin,)2 saagar nahin, maandir-saa ik dil Dhaayaa hai
Not glass, nor ocean, my heart is like a temple
(saaraa aasamaan, hai viiraanaa,
The whole sky is barren,
patthar ke sanam,
O heartless lover,
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29) THE VIDEO: PATTHAR KE SANAM TUJHE HUMNE
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30) BHARI DUNIYA MEIN AAKHIR DIL
http://www.mastimag.com/download.php?song_id=31202
(Bhari duniya mein aakhir dil ko samjhane kahan jayein)2
Where is this world should I go to understand my heart
mohubat ho gayi jin ko wo diwaane kahan jayein
Who should those crazy ones who has fallen in love turn to
Bhari duniya mein aakhir dil ko samjhane kahan jayein
Where is this world should I go to understand my heart
Bhari duniya....
(Laghein hein shama per pehre zamanay ki nigahoon kay)2
Our love has been the focus of the peoples eyes
zamaney ki nigahoon kay
Of the people's eyes
jinhein jalney ki hasrat hay
One who has the intense unfulfilled desire to burn
jinhein jalne ki hasrat hay wo parwaney kahan jayein
One who has the intense desire to love, where should he go
muhaabat ho gayi jin ko wo diwaane kahan jayein
To whom should one turn to, after falling crazily in love
Bhari duniya mein aakhir dil ko samjhane kahan jayein
Where is this world should I go to understand my heart
Bhari duniya....
(sunana bhi jinhein mushkil chuppana bhi jinhein mushkil)2
What is so difficult to listen to and which are so hard to hide
chuppana bhi jinhein mushkil
Which are so hard to hide
(zara to hi bata aye dil)2 wo afsaane kahan jayein
Oh my heart tell me where should those stories go?
muhaabat ho gayi jin ko wo diwaane kahan jayein
To whom should one turn to, after falling crazily in love
Bhari duniya mein aakhir dil ko samjhane kahan jayein
Where is this world should I go to understand my heart
Bhari duniya....
(nazar mein uljhanein dil mein hay aalam beqaarari ka)2
My eyes and my heart are restless of this entanglement
hay aalam beqaarari ka
The Master of heart is restless
(samajh mein kuch nahi aata)2 sukoon paney kahan jayein
This is beyond perception, now where should one go to to have peace and quiet
muhaabat ho gayi jin ko wo diwaane kahan jayein
To whom should one turn to, after falling crazily in love
Bhari duniya mein aakhir dil ko samjhane kahan jayein
Where is this world should I go to understand my heart
Bhari duniya....
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30) THE VIDEO: BHARI DUNIYA MEIN AAKHIR DIL
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16) CHALE THE SAATH: HASEENA MAAN JAYENGE 1968
http://www.mastimag.com/download.php?song_id=39122
We have walked together and again we shall walk together
17) YEH DUNIYA YEH MEHFIL: HEER RANJHA 1970
http://www.mastimag.com/download.php?song_id=31749
This world and its congregation is not any use to me
18) APNI AANKHON MEIN BASAKAR: THOKAR 1970
http://www.mastimag.com/download.php?song_id=23632
Let me give you a place in my eyes and profess my love for you
19) PARADESIYON SE NA: JAB JAB PHOOL KHILE 1965
http://www.mastimag.com/download.php?song_id=28731
Do not ever fall for a stranger
20) WADIYAN MERA DAAMAN: ABHILASHA 1968
http://www.mastimag.com/download.php?song_id=38444
The valleys and paths are like my lap and outstretched arms
21) CHO LENE DO NAZUK HOONTON KO: KAAJAL 1965
http://www.mastimag.com/download.php?song_id=34728
Let it touch your soft lips
22) YE RESHME ZULFE YEH SHAR: DO RAASTE 1969
http://www.mastimag.com/download.php?song_id=23401
These silky hair, these intoxicating eyes
23) TU HI WOH HASEEN HAI TU HI: KWAAB 1980
http://newmp3mad.com/128-25568...h%20Haseen%20Hai.mp3
It is you that very beauty, ah! yes it is you that very beauty
24) BAHARON PHOOL BARSAO MERA HAI: SURAJ 1966
http://www.mastimag.com/download.php?song_id=23629
Blush of spring! Rain flowers down on her! My love is here!
25) EHSAAN TERA HOGA MUJH PAR: JUNGLEE 1961
http://www.mastimag.com/download.php?song_id=28647
You will make me grateful, let me say what the heart wants
26) IS RANG BADALTI DUNIYA MEIN: RAJ KUMAR: 1964
http://www.mastimag.com/download.php?song_id=28325
In this ever-changing world
27) AAJ PURANI RAHON SE KOI MUJHE: AADMI 1968
http://www.mastimag.com/download.php?song_id=11530
Today from that worn out paths no one should call me
28) TU IS TARAH SE MERE: AAP TO AISA NATHE: 1980
http://www.songs.pk/artists.php?songid=1020
You are attached in my life in such a harmonious way
29) PATTHAR KE SANAM : PATTHAR KE SANAM 1967
http://www.mastimag.com/download.php?song_id=42652
Oh heartless lover you are so mercilessI I worshipped you
30) BHARI DUNIYA MEIN AAKHIR DIL: DO BADAN 1966
http://www.mastimag.com/download.php?song_id=31202
Where is this world should I go to understand my heart
NEXT WE MOVE ON TO MOHD RAFI VOLUME 3: BEFORE DOING SO, WE WILL PRESENT SOME INTERESTING WRITE UPS AND PICTURES:
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WE ARE WITH THE MANY FANS AROUND THE WORLD IN JOINING OUR VOICES TOGETHER IN CALLING ON THE AUTHORITIES IN INDIA TO PRESENT POSTHUMOUSLY THE AWARD OF THE BHARAT RATNA TO RAFISAAB:
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Did Mohammad Rafi get his due?
Sometime ago, a Bangladeshi musician claimed that Mohammad Rafi was not given his rightful due in India. In a week-long series rediff.com finds out if the great Rafisaab was indeed ignored by the Hindi film industry and the government.
Today: Rediff India Abroad Managing Editor Arthur J Pais argues that Rafi was the most worshipped singer of his time, unwittingly at the expense of singers like Talat Mahmood and Manna Dey's careers.
It is wonderful to hear 85-year-old Manna Dey, himself a singing legend, talk about how honoured India is to have had a singer like Mohammad Rafi. It is nice to hear the much younger Sonu Nigam [ Images ] talk about Rafi -- who died in July 1980 -- and his heritage. "Not only did I dream of becoming a singer because of Rafisaab," he told me the other day, "I also feel he was and will always be the giant of the musical scene in India."
But it is certainly not a nice thing to hear that Rafi did not get his due in his own country, and that he had to be content with a Padma Shri while his contemporary Lata Mangeshkar [ Images ] was honoured with the Bharat Ratna, India's highest civilian accolade.
Even as one factors in the absurdity inherent in giving out awards including the Oscars [ Images ] -- Alfred Hitchcock never got one and Martin Scorsese [ Images ] is still waiting for his -- one ought to note that Rafi had received his Padma Shri in 1965. Lata received a higher award, the Padma Bhushan, but after four years. She received the Bharat Ratna in 2001. Rafi had long passed into the ages by then.
Lata is among very few musicians including M S Subbulakshmi who have received the Bharat Ratna. Does that mean other eminent musicians like Ravi Shankar, Balamurali Krishna, Bhimsen Joshi or Bade Ali Ghulam Khan did not win sufficient recognition in India?
Rafi was a singing meteor of his time. Just a dozen songs from films like Baiju Bawra, Kohinoor and Guide assures him immortality.
And yet, with virtually every composer and singer worshipping him, especially between 1950 and 1970, he got an undue number of songs to sing and unwittingly hurt the careers of contemporaries like Manna Dey, Talat Mahmood, and to a lesser degree, Hemant Kumar.
He was overexposed to such an extent that some of his songs, especially in films like Aman (composed by Shankar-Jaikishen) and Palki (composer: Naushad Ali) sounded overstretched and over dramatic. And yet some of the most eminent composers including S D Burman were afraid to tell the producers and the stars, especially Rajendra Kumar, Shammi Kapoor and Dharmendra [ Images ], that there were other good singers.
One can count the number of songs Manna Dey sang for Burman; it is another story that those few songs -- Poocho Na Kaise in Teri Surat [ Images ] Meri Aanken turned out to be milestones.
Even when Kishore Kumar [ Images ] became a phenomenon with his songs in Aradhana (1970) and monopolised the musical scene for two decades, Rafi was not sidelined. He sang lovely numbers like Kya Hua Tera Wada and Chura Liya for R D Burman even as Kishore hogged the scene. Producers like Nasir Hussain and Manmohan Desai preferred Rafi to Kishore, and older actors like Dharmendra were in Rafi's camp.
I don't remember ever reading or hearing that Rafi, who was known for his impeccable courtesy and great humanity, felt the least discomfort when Kishore Kumar monopolised the Hindi film music scene.
As one listens to some of the great singers of that era including Manna Dey, Talat Mahmood and Mukesh, one wonders why they did not get more songs.
"There were many occasions I thought of using Manna Dey for my songs," composer Ravi told me two years ago, quickly adding that he was in awe of Rafi's voice. "But the actors often demanded Rafi." The few songs Manna Dey sang for Ravi in films like Waqt and Ek Phool Do Maali have become classics.
One producer to resist the We-must-have-Rafi syndrome was B R Chopra. He gave Mahendra Kapoor a good break in Gumrah and repeated him in many films including Dastaan, which featured Dilip Kumar [ Images ] who was beholden to Rafi.
Indian film music would perhaps have been richer had composers ranging from Madan Mohan to O P Nayyar to Salil Choudhury to S D Burman shown a stronger independent streak and nourished the singing career of other singers.
Arthur J Pais
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How fair were they to Mohammed Rafi?
August 23, 2006
Last week, a Bangladeshi musician claimed that Mohammad Rafi was not given his rightful due in India. In a week-long series rediff.com finds out if the great Rafisaab was indeed ignored by the Hindi film industry and the government.
Today: Raju Bharatan, doyen of India's film journalists, salutes a legend.
It happened at the height of the Rajesh Khanna wave --- in the after-1970 Aradhana glow when Mohammed Rafi's confidence was at its lowest ebb. The Mohammed Rafi who had sung, for Naushad, a total of 149 songs (81 of them solo) through 35 years. That ace composer had heard about how sheer nonentities, in the recording room, had begun dictating to Mohammad Rafi.
During a small-time composer's Rafi recording, therefore, Naushad quietly slipped into the sound recordist's booth at Mehboob Studios in the Bandra suburb of Bombay. As he sat through the recording, Naushad felt aghast to find striplings, in the recording room, telling a stalwart like Rafi how to sing.
Whereupon Naushad discreetly moved out, leaving word that his pet performer should call on him, without fail, at his Ashiana Bandra home -- on the singer's way back to Rafi Villa after the recording.
As Rafi entered his mentor-composer's home, Naushad first took him severely to task. The burden of the Naushad song -- "Who are these people to tell Mohammed Rafi what to do? Isn't Rafi too trained a performer to submit to anyone but the song composer?"
Having heard out his benefactor, Rafi explained to Naushad in detail how, through three years, they had sapped his will to perform -- as his own man. Naushad's counter to that -- "Never ever forget that you are Mohammed Rafi, a performer whose seasoning, by now, far exceeds that of any male singer in the industry. Always remember, Rafi that the singer you identify as your rival, now, has no classical background at all. So how possibly could he be competition to you, Rafi? Go back, confident like before, to the recording room. Just sing like my Rafi always did."
Having said that, having identified Kishore Kumar as no classical competition to Rafi, Naushad instinctively realised that something more tangible had to be done to restore to Rafi his known niche in our song lexicon.
To this end, Naushad hurried with a recording due for My Friend (1974) and summoned Rafi, for a song-rehearsal, for that film. For a solo cast in the Naushadian Bhairavi mould. As Naushad thus put Rafi through his performing paces afresh, for the My Friend Bhairavi classic going as Naiyaa Meree Chaltee Jaaye Sahare Tere Badhte Jaaye, Rafi instinctively regained performing poise.
Almost concurrent with that happening came the Film World magazine awards and Rafi, here, was very much in the running for the Best Singer citation. Bombay's Shanmukhananda Hall was jampacked that serene evening as it came to be announced that Mohammed Rafi had been voted Best Singer for his empathetic rendition of Teree Galiyon Mein Na Rakhenge Qadam Aaj Ke Baad -- as written by Saawan Kumar and tuned by Usha Khanna to go on Anil Dhawan in Hawas. The moment -- to the backdrop of the Teree Galiyon Mein number playing -- Mohammed Rafi was pronounced the winner, this singer, in walking up to the stage, was a man metamorphosed.
All of Rafi's shaken singing confidence thus returned in one stroke --- it was his first award in years. The same Mohammed Rafi who had made it a habit of bagging the prestigious Filmfare Best Male Singer award every other year.
Rafi had won it for Ravi's Pahadi beauty on Guru Dutt, Chaudhvin Ka Chand Ho (Chaudhvin Ka Chand), in 1960. For Jaikishan's Teri Pyaari Pyaari Soorat Ko on Rajendra Kumar (wooing Byrappa Saroja Devi) in Sasural (1961). For Laxmikant-Pyarelal's 1964 DostiChahunga Main Tujhe Saanjh Savere. For Jaikishan's Bahaaron Phool Barsaao on Rajendra Kumar in Suraj (1966). For Shanker's Main Gaaon Tum So Jaao on Shammi Kapoor playing Brahmachari (1968).
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Rafi was aware of the fickleness of the industry and when he was eclipsed by the Kishore Kumar euphoria following the Aradhana days in the early 1970s, he did not show his hurt. That was the time when every musical director and star ran after Kishore Kumar. But Rafi was unperturbed and his dedication remained the same. Once while running a high temperature he recorded five songs in a day for Laxmikant-Pyarelal! Recalls Pyarelal, "He would bring thermos jugs filled with special tea spiced with almond, pista and elaichi, and pour out cups for us during recording. I never saw him in a bad mood."
The gentleman that he was, he conveniently `forgot' to remind producers for dues when a film did not do well. Rafi did not want his sons in the show business because he knew that singing talent cannot be inherited. He must have witnessed the struggles of Nitin Mukesh or Khalid Mahmood, sons of his colleagues Mukesh and Talat Mahmood. He gave his sons a sound education and set them up in business enterprises.
Thirty one years after his death, some of his best songs continue to haunt music rasikas.
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Nostalgic: Talat Mahmood, Mohd Rafi, Mukesh, Geeta Dutt, GM Durrani, Meena Kapoor, Kamal Barot and Mubarak Begum â at the beginning of their careers.
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No. of Songs : 50
Title : Mohd Rafi - Ultimate Unremix- 2 Dvd Pack - Dvd
Genre : Songs Compilation
Cast : Mohd Rafi,
Studio/Banner : Shemaroo
Songs List:
Tere Mere Sapne - Guide
Pardesiyon Se Na Ankhiyan (Happy/Rafi) - Jab Jab Phool Khile
Yeh Mera Prem Patra - Sangam
Ae Gulbadan Phoolon Ki - Professor
Yeh Reshmi Zulfein - Do Raaste
Badan Pe Sitare Lapete - Prince
Chhoo Lene Do Nazuk - Kaajal
Aap Ke Pehloo Mein - Mera Saaya
Tujhko Pukare Mera - Neelkamal
Din Dhal Jaye Haye - Guide
Mere Dushman Tu Meri - Aaye Din Bahar Ke
Mere Pairon Mein Ghungru - Sunghursh
Koi Nazrana Lekar Aaya - Aan Milo Sajna
Tum Kamsin Ho - Aayee Milan Ki Bela
Teri Aankhon Ke Siwa - Chirag
Gar Tum Bhula Na Doge - Yakeen
Yeh Raat Hai Pyasi Pyasi - Chhoti Bahu
Unke Khayal Aaye To - Lal Patthar
Na Tu Zameen Ke Liye - Dastaan
Jeena To Hai Usika - Adhikaar
Yeh Shama To Jali - Aaya Sawan Jhoom Ke
Meri Dushman Hai Yeh - Main Tulsi Tere Aangan Ki
Parda Hai Parda Hai - Amar Akbar Anthony
O Meri Mehbooba - Dharam Veer
Dard-e-dil Dard-e-jigar - Karz
Khoya Khoya Chand - Kala Bazaar
Dil Ka Bhanwar Kare - Tere Ghar Ke Samne
Aise To Na Dekho - Teen Devian
Dil Deke Dekho - Dil Deke Dekho
Hum Bekhudi Mein - Kala Paani
Toote Huye Khwabon Ne - Madhumati
Kabhi Khud Pe Kabhi - Hum Dono
Sau Baar Janam Lenge - Ustadon Ke Ustad
Mile Na Phool To - Anokhi Raat
Tu Kahan Ye Bata - Tere Ghar Ke Samne
Main Zindagi Ka Saath - Hum Dono
Main Bambai Ka Babu - Naya Daur
Govinda Aala Re - Bluff Master
Ye Wadiyan Ye Fizayein - Aaj Aur Kal
Saathi Na Koi Manzil - Bambai Ka Babu
Kabhi Naa Kabhi Kahin - Sharabi
Yahan Main Ajnabi Hoon - Jab Jab Phool Khile
Kya Se Kya Ho Gaya - Guide
Babul Ki Duwayein (Part 1 & 2) - Neelkamal
Khuli Palak Mein Jhootha - Professor
Yeh Zulf Agar Khul Ke - Kaajal
Nazar Mein Bijlee Ada - Prince
Humko To Jaan Se Pyari - Naina
Main Galiyon Ka Raja - Dharam Veer
Shirdiwale Sai Baba - Amar Akbar Anthony
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