The anguish of “Yeh Duniya Agar Mil Bhi Jaye” and the lilting playfulness of “Sar Jo Tera Chakraye”, one filmed on the intense Guru Dutt and the other on a goofy Johnny Walker, in “Pyaasa” have that ...

Mohammad Rafi had a powerful range that could accommodate anything from the sublime O duniya ke rakhwale for Bharat Bhushan in Baiju Bawra to the eccentric Badan pe sitare lapete huye for Shammi ...

Bollywood has a history of great Bhajans for Lord Ram, Lord Krishna and Lord Shiva. The great melodies of the genre Oh duniya ke rakhwale (Mohd Rafi, Baiju Bawra) and Satyam Shivam Sundaram (Lata ...

They have not seen this for the last 31 years. The Mehboob Memorial Orchestra has been organising a musical meet, Rafi Nite, since 1980. The Town Hall, venue for this annual event, all these years, ...

It’s been 44 years since his death in 1980 yet Rafi’s songs are just as popular and most frequently heard over the Vividh Bharati Service of Akashvani Mumbai and All India Radio’s Urdu Service from ...

Born on Christmas Eve in 1924, Mohammed Rafi would have turned 100 this year. His birthplace, Kotla Sultan Singh, in Amritsar district was like any other village of Punjab’s Majha region. Its ...