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Administrator : Phd research achha chal raha hai ishwar ki kripa se... ummed hai jaldi safalta milegi
Administrator : Jaan bhai.. mujhe lagta hai aadmi kabhi bada aur chhota nahi hota... humare karm bade aur chhote jaroor hote hain.. aur Rafi sahab ka bhakt ho kar aisi galti kaise kar sakta hoon
jaan : Namashkar......Thx bhai...will follow your adv and keep you posted on further problems, if any. How`s the Ph D research coming on...Best of luck aur jab bohot hi bada aadmi ban gaya toh ham gareeb janta ko mat bhoolna bhai mere...Soul of late Rafi sahab is our witness... Rgds
Administrator : Try to listen to the low bandwidth stream and it should not cause you problem, if you still have buffering issues then I would have to look into it.
Administrator : Jaan bhai.. which stream do you try to listen to? The high bandwidth one or the low bandwidth one?
jaan : Abishek bhai....Namashkar....Songs played on Your Real Player link always gets disconnected few seconds and then re connected...Please confirm what is the problem.Thx. Jaan
A S MURTY : Can any name the movie from which this song of Rafi Sahab has been taken : AYE JAANE TAMANNA AA BHI JA, AA BHI JA, AA BHI JA ?
Mohammed Rafi (Hindi: मोहम्मद रफ़ी,Urdu: محمد رفیع, December 24, 1924 - July 31, 1980) was one of the greatest Indian playback singers in Bollywood. Rafi still remains popular in India and in many other parts of the world with people of Indian origin. His voice is referred to as "the voice of god". He continues to inspire new Bollywood playback singers like Sonu Nigam, Mohammed Aziz, Shabbir Kumar and Anwar.
Mohammed Rafi (Rafi Sahab to most of his fans and well-wishers) was and will be the greatest singer the Indian subcontinent has produced. Rafi Sahab, along with Lata Mangeshkar, shares the Guinness honors for having sung the most number of songs (approx 26,000). During his film career, spanning 40 years(from 1940 to 1980) Rafi Sahab sang a wide variety of songs and versatality has been his forte. He could sing for any mood and for any actor with great ease. His songs ranged from classical numbers(Madhuban mein Radhika nache re) to songs that followed no rules of music (Uffu Khuda Unko hampe pyar aaya), from sad lamentations (Na kissi ke ankh ka noor hu) to highly romantic numbers(Aapke Haseen Rukh pe aaj naya noor hai), from qawallis(Hum Kissise Kum Nahin) to ghazals(Teri ankhon ke siva duniya mein rakha kya hai) and bhajans(Duniya na bhaye mohe ab to bulale), from slow melancholic tunes(Hum Bekhudi mein tumko pukare chale gaye) to fast masti-bhare geet(April Fool banaya). Rafi Sahab's patriotic songs like 'Watan pe jo Fida hoga', 'Kar chale hum fida' 'Jahan dal dal par' and 'Apni Azadi ko hum' are truly soul-stirring. RafiSaab could very beautifully express the hero's love for his 'mehbooba' and the same voice could also curse the 'bewafa lover'.
September 27th was a sad for all music lovers, as one of the great fans of Rafi sahab and an amazing singer himself,
Mahendra Kapoor sahab, died in Mumbai on late Saturday following a cardiac failure. He was 74.
He was not keeping a good health of late as he had been suffering from heart ailment for long, his son Rohan Kapoor told IANS.
Born in Amrisar in Punjab, Kapoor first came into prominence after he won a singing contest at the All India Youth Festival in the late 1950s.
A fan of singer Mohammad Rafi, he had dreams of making a career as a playback singer in Bollywood movies.
Thanks to filmmaker B.R. Chopra, he got a foothold in the film industry ad came into prominence singing the Tere pyar ka asra number in Dhool Ka Phool.
OK I didn't remember to update the status of Radio in this post. I got a super fast internet connection at home, which has large upload bandwidth. So now I am in a position to support radio with its full capability, and it is not solely running off a desktop at my home, so now it should have more uptime, and I would be in a position to fix any issues, sooner. I have to add many more songs, to the play list, hopefully next weekend I would get time to do this. All the Radio links on this site should be working fine now. Let me know if anybody faces any problem in listening to the radio.
The relay server for the Rafi Radio has been removed (it was a computer in my Lab) which I was using to relay the radio stream from my home. I have not been able to find another computer to use for this purpose.
Radio is still running but it supports only 10 users, because that is all I can support from my home computer internet connection. The links given on the website won't work, instead use this:
http://69.143.227.18:8010/listen.pls
Use winamp to listen to the stream. I would try and bring it back to old status, as soon as possible.
Also I have been very busy with my PhD research, and hence have not been able to respond to the emails sent to admin@ eternalrafi. com email id. I am very sorry about this, but unfortunately I cannot do much about it. I am hoping that soon the work pressure would reduce a bit and then I would be able to devote more time to this website for my beloved singer Rafi sahab. Please bear with me on this.
The native village of Mohammed Rafi near Amritsar is doing its bit to keep the memories of the legendary playback singer alive by developing a park to be named after him. As the 28th death anniversay of Rafi falls on Thursday, his village Kotla Sultan Singh remembers its greatest hero, whose name will always be among one of India's greatest singers.
"The village panchayat has given an acre of land near the main road for a park which is named after Mohd Rafi. We will also be putting up Rafi Sahab's statue over there," village sarpanch, Santokh Singh said.
5TH July, 2008 will be remembered by music lovers in Hyderabad as a day of revival of the vintage music of the hfm (hindi film music). For nearly six months now, we have been trying to organize a grand musical show and also invite some well known playback singer of the yesteryears to Hyderabad. The closest we came to was the name of Mubarak Begum Sahiba and our good friend Samarjit Acharjee was in continuous contact with her. Either the glorious singer with the golden voice was not available when we had wanted to organize a show or we were preoccupied with our normal lives and thus we could not go ahead with the idea that remained in our minds. However, we did not lose heart and kept our trials going.
Almost a month back Samarjit Acharjee informed me that he would shortly be leaving India for better prospects in the U.S. and he has thus invited Mubarak Begum Sahiba to Hyderabad for a rendezvous with our musical group of ABADRAFI. He asked me to organize a musical show, however small and that the legendary singer would attend the same. That set the ball rolling. Ours is still a small group and in its infancy. How were we going to arrange a musical show where the Chief Guest would be Mubarak Begum Sahiba herself. We had to get our act together, and fast. First, we got all the details of the gifted singer – her profile so to say. Websites helped. Other music lovers too helped in gathering all the data. We had wanted all her songs and our messages went in all directions seeking the rare gems of Begum Sahiba’s songs. Good friends like Hussein Sheikh helped a lot in this regard. Samarjit too could gather a few from other sources. Many in our group too had not heard of some of the very best songs of Begum Sahiba. Three songs that were know to all of us were (1) Kabhi Tanhaiyon Mein Yun Hamari Yaad Ayegi, (2) Hum Haale Dil Sunayenge, Suniye Ke Na Suniye and (3)the evergreen duet with Rafi Sahab – Mujhko Apne Gale Lagalo (Humrahi). The other songs were not too common for our group. The idea was that we know all the notable songs much before Begum Sahiba comes to Hyderabad. 5th July 2008 (Saturday) was fixed after consulting many of our friends. It was convenient for some while others had to make room for attending the musical program. The basics done, we got down to the real ground work. A suitable venue had to be arranged. Orchestra had to be negotiated, photographs and videography to be arranged. Banners had to be made and so also word had to be spread around in the musical circles of Hyderabad about the upcoming event. We were running against the time and all the members of ABADRAFI got going.
“Tell us about any incident that you would never forget, Mubarak Ji? Something that brings a smile to your face or brings tears to your eyes…”
“Andhere Chha Rahe Honge, Ke Bijli Kaundh Jayegi, I had just sung till this line from the song Kabhi Tanhaiyon Mein Yun from the film Hamari Yaad Aayegi when” - she paused for a moment to look at the anticipation in the faces in front of her – “the lights went off!” We laugh out loud; she smiles. “Gaane ka aisa asar kisine kabhi dekha nahi hoga,” she says with a twinkle in her eyes. Mubarak Begum chose something amusing over the myriad melancholic things that keep bothering her.
During the three days that I got to spend with her, there were talks about the difficult times and the uncertain future. But there was no resignation in those talks – only a glaring resolve. An acceptance of reality, an amnesia of an absolved past. She agreed for every interview I arranged, without even asking her. “No personal questions, no controversial questions.” She seemed not to be an interviewer’s delight. When asked about how her passion for singing evolved she says, “I never wanted to sing, I was forced to sing by my father.” She is not very happy either about the long walk at and even longer drive from the Shamshabad Airport. You ask her the questions, she gives you her answers. No frills.
The Indian music company Saregama is launching a music CD and series of tours around Britain to commemorate the Indian singer Mohammad Rafi.
At an event at the Nehru Centre in London on Tuesday 17th June, a CD album titled ‘Rafi Resurrected’ will be unveiled by the late Mohd Rafi’s eldest grandson Rizvan Rafi.
A national tour with Indian singer Sonu Nigam will follow in July: at the Symphony Hall in Birmingham(15th July); Manchester’s Apollo Theatre (17th July) and the London Coliseum (20th July). Sony Entertainment Television Asia will broadcast all concerts.
NDTV reports about "Rafi Nite" organized in Mumbai which drew tremendous crowd. It tells us that the Magic of Rafi sahab's voice still keeps people enchanted.
Songs by legendary singer Mohammed Rafi drew a packed house here 28 years after his death, and audiences were in for a surprise as an evergreen voice from the yore took the stage again, rekindling memories and melodies of an era gone by.
Mujhko apne gale laga lo and Thahariya hosh me aa loon, sung by the forgotten Mubarak Begum wafted across the lush green lawns of the Green Court Club on the city's outskirts Sunday night.
I came across this article on timesofindia.com website and it was interesting to read that even in the troubled territory of Afghanistan the voices of Rafi sahab and Kishore Da is making people forget their pains and share a smile or two. Music has so much power which helps it transcend the barriers of language and cross the boundaries of nations to spread the word of love among all its listenere. So no surprise there that the appeal of Rafi sahab's voice is universal.
"It's a different matter altogether that the demand for Bollywood Hits - the Qurbani qawwali - outstripped the response to any other music. But you can't blame them - old Mohd Rafi and Kishore Kumar songs are streaming constantly in the background, wherever you go. The mere mention of Amitabh Bachchan raises a roar of applause."
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