All Great Mds' Preference For Rafi Saab!, Some Widely-reported Stories On This Options

[venkat]

Friends,

That all great MDs during the Platinum-era of HFM from 1947 to 1972 had a distinct preference for Rafi Saab is crystal-clear, well-known and needs no debate, as the historical facts and statistics speak for themselves.

But, there were some instances of extreme display of this tendency by some of the great MDs of olden days.

In this thread, let us narrate and discuss some of such instances.

To start with, I recall one radio interview that I heard very long back, which gave me the following information.

In early, mid and late fifties, it was fashionable to listen to Talat Mehmood songs and somewhat over-rate him. Many Industry bigwigs, such as Anil Biswas, Bimal Roy, etc., too were not immune to this tendency.

So, when Bimal Roy was making Sujata (1959), he had advised S.D.Burman to use Talat Mehmood for the great SDB composition, "Jalte Hain Jis Ke Liye".

But, S.D.Burman was far from enamoured by Talat Mehmood's style of singing. He wanted to utilise only Rafi Saab for this sublime composition and tried to reason out with Bimal Roy. But, as Bimal Roy wouldn't listen, he had to finally use Talat Mehmood.

But, what is really amusing was that during the rehearsals and recording, S.D.Burman made no secret of his displeasure to poor Talat Ji. He even used to say, "Yeh Boda Achha Composition Hoy. Is Ko Khorab Mot Koro".

Such was SDB's bullishness on Rafi Saab.

More later.

Venkat

PS. It is a different matter that the song, "Jalte Hain Jis Ke liye", from Sujata happened to have been sung by Talat Mehmood extremely well and it is a great favorite of mine. But, the above was just to illustrate great MDs' stubborn preference for Rafi Saab.

This post has been edited by venkat: Sep 27 2008, 04:12 PM

[suhana_safar]

http://www.radiosargam.com/films/archives/...of-legends.html


a must read article.

Cheers
SS

[venkat]

http://www.radiosargam.com/films/archives/...of-legends.html


a must read article.

Cheers
SS

Many many sincere thanks, SS Ji, for this superb article on Rafi Saab written by one Venkat Rajan. Now, 'Venkat's of this world seem to know the full worth of Rafi Saab!

Seriously, the author had written about Rafi Saab with great authority and not a single word of what he said is an exaggeration. 'Rafi Saab' is such a wide and deep subject that it takes decades of study to know/understand him somewhat fully. I can say that this author had certainly done his decades of study and that is how he could assess Rafi Saab so well.

Venkat

[suhana_safar]

Many many sincere thanks, SS Ji, for this superb article on Rafi Saab written by one Venkat Rajan. Now, 'Venkat's of this world seem to know the full worth of Rafi Saab!

Seriously, the author had written about Rafi Saab with great authority and not a single word of what he said is an exaggeration. 'Rafi Saab' is such a wide and deep subject that it takes decades of study to know/understand him somewhat fully. I can say that this author had certainly done his decades of study and that is how he could assess Rafi Saab so well.

Venkat

Welcome Venkat and Parag

This is as good an article as I have read. If anyone needs a crash degree course on Rafisaab and his unmatched achievements and qualities then simply read this article.

Venkat bhai....no doubt your knowledge about Rafisaab and HFM is first rate lekin "hum bhi kisese hum nahin"

Thanks for your kind words chaps.

Cheers
SS

This post has been edited by suhana_safar: Oct 22 2008, 03:52 AM