The finale of the trilogy tribute to great music legend – Mohd. Rafi . In this part take took into some of the memorable moments in his life through pictures, along with his filmfare acheivements. The great legend, who never let his pain be felt in his soulful romantic songs, left the world stunned on 1980.
We lost one more voice … -Awaz Mein Na Doonga…

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Whenever there used be a fusion of Naushad’s music, Shakeel Badayuni’s lyrics and Rafi’s voice, that number would become super-duper hit. These three were quite a team then. Rafi sang more than 26,000 songs in all the national languages in his forty years long career in the film industry. He is the master of all forms of songs. He could sing ghazal, qawwali, geet and bhajan with equal ease.
The range of Rafi’s voice was very very high. This is noticeable from the number O Duniya Ke Rakhwale from the movie Baiju Bawara. Rafi revealed a golden voice of unrivaled tonal quality and range, which had the power to pitch lyrics from the lowest modulations to high soprano.

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Tere aane ki aas hai dost,
sham phir kyon udas hai dost,
mehki-mehki fiza yeh keh rahi hai,
tu kahin aas paas hai dost…

Rafi Saab, is indeed the best singer of all times. Today, 25 years after his death, he lives on eternally. His songs today are just as popular as they were during his lifetime. Mohammed Rafi sung over 26,000 songs in a career spanning 40 years, most of those spent as the undisputed King of Bollywood playback singers.

When Mohammed Rafi was a little boy, a fakir used to wander by his house in Lahore singing songs. Captivated by the beautiful sounds, the little boy would follow the holy man and sing along. So began the musical journey of Rafi, a magical trip that would lead him to Bombay, the blossoming Bollywood film industry and immortality as, arguably, the greatest ever male Hindi playback singer.
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Naushad, one of the greatest music composers of Indian cinema is no more with us. The orcehstra of golden era of the bollywood, passed in Mumbai away on Friday, 6th May 2006. Born on December 25, 1919, Naushad came to Mumbai in the 1930s from Lucknow and became one of the most successful music directors of the Hindi film industry in the next two decades. Prominent films for which he had composed music include Baiju Bawra, Mother India and Mughal-e-Azam, all of which had achieved phenomenal commercial success.

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Her versatility is linked to her intrinsic sensitivity as this anecdote proves. Bimal Roy once persuaded Salil da to sing a complex Bengali song. Salil da obliged and was alarmed to find that young Lata had fainted. Moving sentiment is the hallmark of any Lata song. It is her ability to reach inside the lyric, to probe the nuances of moods, so skillfully balance changing cadences that make her so much in demand.

She confessed,

While listening to the song, I was overcome.
I couldn’t control myself.

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Raj Kapoor always remained on the straight and narrow path that he had started on almost fifty years ago. He has changed the locale, the environment, moved out of the sharp light and shade of the black and white films, and into the larger- than-life hues of the Technicolor screen of today. But the naive and sentimental lover of the forties, the idealist debunker, the heroic underdog, still remain the major underlying motifs in his work.

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Rendezvous with Mysteros

1949,was the breakthrough year for Lataji. Four years earlier veteran composer Mst. Ghulam Haider from Sind had accompanied the young Lata, to meet a leading producer in the hope that she would be given a song in the forthcoming film starring Kamini Kaushal. The tone-deaf producer rejected the eager nervous aspirant’s voice as too thin and soft. The outraged Haider , who had earlier discovered Noor Jehan, prophesied

Let me foretell today that this girl will soon put to shade everyone else including Noor Jehan. Producers and singers will fall at her feet begging to sing in their films.

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Little Lata, came home after watching K.L.Saigal’s ‘Chandidas’ directed by Nitin Bose and declared that she would marry Saigal Saab when she grew up. Here begins, Hindi filmdom’s most enduring love story. Between Lata Mangeshkar and Hindi film music. A story of passion , commitment and sincerity . A story that has taken on the awesome dimensions of legend .A story that has charmed and enchanted millions all over the for more than five decades …
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