Did you become a Rafisaab fan before, or after the legend passed away? Options

[iqbal]

All Rafians, please vote - this should be interesting!

[bchatterjee]

All Rafians, please vote - this should be interesting!

But when rafi passed away (it was I remember the last in the series of famous people passing away starting with Sanjay Gandhi ending with Rafi), I was only 7 years old. So how can one expect to appreciate Rafi Saab at that age!!! Hence I guess more people from my generation are on this forum and one cannot draw any conclusion like after a celebrity dies he becomes famous or something like that!!! I am sure if I would have loved Rafi, Talat and Hemant Kumar if I was alive then....Same goes for Geeta Dutt, Meena Kapoor, Guru Dutt, Meena Kumari

Bappa

[sri]

I was quite surprised to find in the poll results that over 2/3rd of the people who voted were born after the legend passed away.

It does speak of Rafi sahab's eternal magic that so many of the younger generation ave taken to him.

I was indeed extremely fortunate to have lived through the golden period having been born in 1954. To me, the songs of Rafi and Lata, Mukesh and Talat, Hemant Kumar and Geeta Dutt, Manna Dey and Asha Bhosle, Kishore Kumar - release 1 ( as they say in the software world nowadays - meaning the Kishore of pre 1969 days before he became a rage ).... and many others were 'LIVE' songs - since we were witnessing these songs being born on the radio waves and rising to their popularity heights on the Binaca geetmala .. before giving way to newer songs.

How i remember the excitement of listening to a new song released on radio and how we would all look forward to hearing our favourite songs in the Binaca Geetmala on Radio Ceylon and other listener's choice programmes like Jaymala etc. ! Kishore Kumar was a rare appearance ( compared to Rafi and Lata ) and I distinctly remember how I would wait anxiously to hear his lovely voice and always wonder why this great singer was not able to get more songs to sing !! Didn't know about 1969 and Aradhana then.

Those were the days of Rafi and Lata. So many songs came and went .... some I have never heard since ..... and whenever I come across any rare song of that era, my mind goes back to those childhood days!

My fanatical interest in hindi film music did not go unrewarded. In 1978 I had occasion to visit a recording studio where Rafi sahab was recording a new song and was introduced to him. He shook hands with me and spoke a few lines enquiring about me. Probaly the MOST MEMORABLE DAY of my life !

More about that some other time ....but I am truly surprised and happy to see a larger percentage of fans in the next generation ! Rafi sahab deseves all this adulation and more. As Lata Mangeshkar, herself, once said about this famous man - "Aise kalakaar baar baar janam nahin lete'

sri

[bchatterjee]

I was quite surprised to find in the poll results that over 2/3rd of the people who voted were born after the legend passed away.

It does speak of Rafi sahab's eternal magic that so many of the younger generation ave taken to him.

I was indeed extremely fortunate to have lived through the golden period having been born in 1954. To me, the songs of Rafi and Lata, Mukesh and Talat, Hemant Kumar and Geeta Dutt, Manna Dey and Asha Bhosle, Kishore Kumar - release 1 ( as they say in the software world nowadays - meaning the Kishore of pre 1969 days before he became a rage ).... and many others were 'LIVE' songs - since we were witnessing these songs being born on the radio waves and rising to their popularity heights on the Binaca geetmala .. before giving way to newer songs.

How i remember the excitement of listening to a new song released on radio and how we would all look forward to hearing our favourite songs in the Binaca Geetmala on Radio Ceylon and other listener's choice programmes like Jaymala etc. ! Kishore Kumar was a rare appearance ( compared to Rafi and Lata ) and I distinctly remember how I would wait anxiously to hear his lovely voice and always wonder why this great singer was not able to get more songs to sing !! Didn't know about 1969 and Aradhana then.

Those were the days of Rafi and Lata. So many songs came and went .... some I have never heard since ..... and whenever I come across any rare song of that era, my mind goes back to those childhood days!

My fanatical interest in hindi film music did not go unrewarded. In 1978 I had occasion to visit a recording studio where Rafi sahab was recording a new song and was introduced to him. He shook hands with me and spoke a few lines enquiring about me. Probaly the MOST MEMORABLE DAY of my life !

More about that some other time ....but I am truly surprised and happy to see a larger percentage of fans in the next generation ! Rafi sahab deseves all this adulation and more. As Lata Mangeshkar, herself, once said about this famous man - "Aise kalakaar baar baar janam nahin lete'

sri

THAT IS WHAT i AM TALKING ABOUT....i WAS JUST BORN 50 YEARS LATER THAN i SHOULD HAVE!!!!