Tansen of our times – Mohammed Rafi
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RAFI SAB IS :ZAMANE KA RATNA”
Very Nice Article Raju sir. All the points are very true. Bharat Ratna should be honor by the name of Rafi Sahab.
How one would be belittled by the demand for Justice ???? Hard to understand!!!
thanks lot for this great article. mhd rafi very much deserved the bharat ratna even before his death. great singer culd not get padam bhushan.i strongly support yr noble compaign and tribute him by broken words- https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Bb15g7fzalM
I SO agree witih Mr Bushan Wali’s post, which no one seems to have noticed – it seems a bit awful that there has to be a PLEA to the government for an award which has been bestowed by this govt. on people who are nowhere near Rafi Sahab in stature. People who are nowhere near the rank of Rafi Sahab.
Rafi Sahab is a shining, heavenly light in our hearts. It is God’s gift to us. Rafi Sahab’s magical voice is his gift to us. Who are we to award him with something? We can only take from him. What we take is priceless – emotions containing pleasure, pain, nostalgia, memory, beauty, love, romance, goodness, laughter, patriotism, devotion, friendship, I cannot possibly list all of it. We get all of this from the voice of this golden angel who lived for a time as a human being.
Please , please stop asking for an award, let us not humiliate Rafi Sahab any more by stooping to this. Do you want them to say “here’s the award, you’ve been asking for it for so long”. My dear Rafi fans, does Rafi Sahab deserve that? No, he does not deserve this, nor does he need an award at all. Because as long as this world exists, Rafi Sahab’s songs will live. Governments will come and go, and no one will remember any of their names, but there is and will be only ONE Rafi Sahab.
If someone sane comes along who bestows this tiny little thing to Rafi Sahab, oh well, what a great day for the award itself! At long last, it will be adorned by that great name of Mohammad Rafi and the award will begin to shine with joy and gratitude.
Salaams to all…….
Dear Zaman ji,
The fans of the singer you have mentioned are not even
confident to ask the authorities for a Padma Award for him.
So let us forget the comment.
The article is great and has everything that I have been nursing in my mind. Hats off to the writer. Mohammad Rafi, in fact, is the best thing that ever happened to this world. I have been asking everyone through my facebook page Rafi Sahab to raise their voices for Bharat Ratna for Rafi Sahab. But now my hopes are diminishing as there are little chances of it happening in my life time because of people that are driven by religious identities such as one poor soul in the comments below who thinks Kishore Kumar deserves this prior to Rafi Shab….what can one say…
I, however, congratulate the writer of this article for putting our sentiments into words and making a cause for our the most rightful demand. Good day to all…..
mohd rafi sahab is the legend, and no one even touch his scale, he was versatile for all types of song. and he deserves more than bharat ratna.
Mohd Rafi is and will be world Ratna…
there many people who are making money in the name of Mohd Rafi but even they are not paying 1% to write a article on news paper or on TV,
God made one Sun and one Mohd Rafi for our Earth,Mohd Rafi is number one and before it is zero after one it is two…..
The award which Mohd Rafi got I think no one got it The award is from God still not be replaced by any singer still at the top even today Mohd Rafi got more votes to any other singer.As actors Salman Khan got more votes than Dilip Kumar and Mr Bachchan butno songer got more than Mohd Rafi……………..
Hello,
Not sure if there is any effort by the Rafi Foundation to get signed petition from public in support of awarding Bharat Ratna to Mohammad Rafiji.
If not, I strongly suggest that such an effort be undertaken to nudge Govt. of India towards awarding Bharat Ratna.
Shri Binu Nair Sahab, namaste
Congratulations for the successful arrangement @ complenent to the greatest singer of world,our beloved MOHD.RAFI Sb.Article by you & the son of great Madan Mohan i read i liked them and got knowledge.
I have some phpto graphs of Mohd.Rafi and his letters written to me.
Dear Admin: Its very important that this article is given TOP PRIORIT AS SAID BY Mr Sreejith.
It should be permanently displayed to show VISITORS HOW WE HAVE FAILED IN HONOURING THE GREATEST SINGER OF OUR TIMES – MOHD RAFI SAHEB.
Binu Nair
Nice article but Kishore Kumar deserves Bharat Ratna more than Rafi. It’s our collective duty to make an appeal to award Bharat Ratna to great Kishore Kumar first.
It’s very sad that so many people and fans of the great legend have to plead with the Indian Government to ensure justice is done by bestowing the Bharat Ratna in his name. I couldn’t agree more with what has been written in this article and the comments in response to the article. I would love to know what the criteria for receiving these awards is apart from what we all already know now which is you need to know the right people in the right places and obviously dirty politics come into place, I suppose in many ways I’ve just answered my own question. 35 years on and us fans have not forgotten Mohd Rafi and we certainly wouldn’t shut up and let the Indian Government forget either!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
great people write greatly about the greatest. Thanks
A great article, but unfortunately so many millions of people and fans like myself feel helpless as far as Mohd Rafi receiving the Bharat Ratna is concerned as the government is corrupt and unfair in making decisions and some of the recipients of this award prove my point. There has been like Sreejith ji has mentioned a gross injustice and for so manypeople to say so has shown the goverment that it certainly hasn’t gone unnoticed and it should be rectified but they are still choosing to ignore the plea of so many fans and causing a lot of bitterness in the process. I would like to see commonsense prevail but unless put dirty politics are put to the side this will never happen!
However, I would like to thank the writer of this article as he has done a wonderful job in bringing the subject to the forefront again.
Thanking MR.Binu Nair for the effort took to put up such a needy article.However, i feel that a permanently visible appeal should be put on the website which will prompt every visitor of this site to immediately take notice and pitch their voice against this gross injustice to the greatest singer India ever had.
There is some thing very special about Rafi saheb ‘ his name draws our attention towards him.His songs give us extraordinary happiness. He is part our life ‘ an organ in the body
Day and night are incomplete without his thoughts.we love those who love Rafi saheb.To me there is no greater person than him and no greater singer than him in the world .His untimely demise is the greatest tragedy of Indian cinema.Rafi saheb you will always remain in our hearts and thoughts.
LET ME MAKE IT CLEAR FOR THOSE WHO AGAIN AND AGAIN PLEAD TO GOVT TO CONFER BHARAT RATAN ON MOHD RAFI.
MOHD RAFI HAS ATTAINED A STATURE MUCH MUCH BIGGER THAN THOSE WHO HAVE RECEIVED BHARAT RATNA . AND EVERY PASSING DAY WILL PROVE THAT RAFI SAHAB WAS ABOVE THESE AWARDS. I FEEL YOU BELITTLE MOHD RAFI ‘S STATURE BY ASKING EVERY TIME FROM THESE BAREHAM POLTICIANS
The singer who was the cause of changing the style of the
Music of not only Hindi Cinema but the entire Indian film
Music also.Certainly there were good Music Directors but
Rafi Saab was their instrument as he was able to sing any
type of songs.Like any other, Hindi cinema was also male
dominated and accordingly the chances of singing various
types of songs are for them only and it showed Rafi Saab’s
ability in various films than his only rival Lataji.He is the
inspiration for so many singers who could earn their
livelihood.He was above any cast or region,he visited
the border areas to give moral boost to our soldiers.
The singer with a divine voice as well as with a divine
personality is a rare phenomenon.The support he had
given to the needy is a well known factor.So it is high
time to confer on him the prestigious “Bharath Ratna”
posthumously.
Mohd Rafi was and is still the best singer in the world. Mohd Rafi deserves an award from every single fan he has across the globe, because his songs have enriched our lives, his voice has added happiness & love in our day to day living. The joy of listening to his voice every day fills our lives with sweetness & joy. Asif from England email asiflfc@hotmail.co.uk
TYPO IN THE FIRST WORD. SORRY. Pls read RAFI .IN SANJEEV KOHLIS ARTICLE FOR THE RAFI FOUNDATION.
Thanks
BINU NAIR.
It pains my heart when our country known for acknowledging and honouring the real talents and exra-ordinary personalities, neglecting and overlooking someone who mesmerized millions, regardless of geographical boundaries, linguistic barriers or cultural differences with his soulful divine voice and continue to do so even after decades of his mortal demise.Rafi sahab lead an exemplary life and set standards for others to follow. All the great singers of india publicly admitted that they consider Rafi sahab as thier guru and an inspiration for them to pursuit their singing career. a soul who has given so much to the country deserves every recognition and we will continue to fight till we achieve this noble cause because we believe that neglecting ambassadors of humility, humanity and cultural excellence is a betrayal towards our country and it’s countrymen.
Gem of a human being. it is a debatable point whether Rafi saab was a greater singer or greater human being.. The fact is he was as great a human being as a singer. Money never mattered to him. Many names in music industry who became big in future had the privilege of recording their first songs in Rafi saab’s voice for virtually free.His stand on not claiming royalty and tiff with Lataji is well known.Till his last days, he was reported to explore possibilities of donating various medical equipments to needy institutions. The purity of soul always reflected in his voice. Aisee Ruhani shakhsiyat ke bare mein jo bhi likha jaye, adhoora hi rahega. mere Bhagwan ko shat shat naman