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When producer-director Manmohan Desai (who was a big fan of Rafi) and used him in numerous hit films, was asked to describe the voice of Rafi he remarked that "If anyone has the voice of god, it is Mohammed Rafi". [71] Annually his birth and death anniversaries inspire several thousand musical tributes on stage, radio and television. [72] [73]
Mohammed Rafi (24 December 1924 – 31 July 1980) was an Indian playback singer and widely considered to be one of the greatest and most influential singers of the Indian subcontinent. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Rafi was notable for his voice, versatility and range; his songs were varied from fast peppy numbers to patriotic songs, sad numbers to highly ...
Initially Mukesh was the ghost voice of Dilip Kumar in this movie and Mohammed Rafi sang for Raj Kapoor. He delivered many Hits for Naushad in films like: Anokhi Ada (1948), Mela (1948), Andaz (1949).
The International Film Festival of India (IFFI) is rolling out an extensive tribute program to honor the 100th birth anniversaries of four Indian cinema legends: actor-filmmaker Raj Kapoor ...
Known for his sweet and resonant voice, Shabbir Kumar is an ardent fan of Mohammed Rafi. Artists with whom he has worked include Dharmendra, Jeetendra, Rishi Kapoor, Mithun Chakraborty, Amitabh Bachchan, Sunny Deol, Sanjay Dutt, Jackie Shroff, Anil Kapoor, Govinda, Chunky Pandey.
The pathos required of his role was acclaimed by critics as well as audiences, as were the singing sequences of classical raga-based songs in Mohammad Rafi's voice. [20] Bhatt and Bhushan worked again the following year in Shri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu (1953), for which Bhushan received the Filmfare Best Actor Award. [19]
All the songs picturized on Raj Kapoor were sung by Mukesh, whom Kapoor used as his singing voice, Except in one Song (Tum Hi Tum ho). It happened one day that Mukesh was unavailable for a song recording, So Mohammed Rafi was called for a dubbing version of the song. Kapoor was so impressed that he used this dubbed song of Mohammed Rafi in the ...
With voice of Mohammed Rafi in all 7 songs, among three of them were duets with Lata Mangeshkar. The song “Dafli Wale Dafli Baja” was used as an interlude by Vishal-Shekhar , in the film version of the song, Radha, from Student of the Year , in which Kapoor starred in.