The Sexiest Voice Ever
This article is written by Mr.A.S.Murty.
asmurty2@rediffmail.com, rafimurty@gmail.com
Each one of us must have heard close to a 100,000 songs in various languages, rendered by various artistes of all hues. Many great singers have entertained us with their thousands of songs over the last several decades and many more will continue to do so in the coming eras. We may not be familiar with singers of yore or the distant lands and how best they are comparable with the singers of the sub-continent. But even as we listen to Arabic songs or the Spanish ones, music lovers can differentiate between a good composition and a bad one. Or for that matter, the Gayaki of the singers is perceptible. Close to home, again we have had hundreds of exponents of all types of music – from Hindustani to Persian to Folk to Carnatic ultimately to the filmi HINDI-URDU mixture of Bollywood. Each one of them had their own distinctive style of singing. But all could not sing all the types of songs. Just imagine K L Saigal (god bless his soul) singing for e.g. TUM KAMSIN HO, NAADAN HO, NAZUK HO or a Mukesh rendering TUMSE KAHUN IK BAAT PARO SE HALKE HALKE. The head starts spinning isn’t it ?? Something jarringly is missing out there. One can imagine a Rafi singing DIL JALTA HAI TO JALNE DE but certainly not the first two examples.
For most people the world over a sexy thing easily is a woman. For most women, it could mean either of the two sexes. But when it boils down to mere GAYIKI or simply the voice, there will be no divided opinion as to who was the sexiest singer of all times. MOHAMMED RAFI indeed. Take the following songs for instance :
1. AAJA RE AA ZARA, LEHARA KE AA ZARA
2. AAJ KI RAAT YEH KAISI RAAT KE HUMKO NEEND NAHI AATI
3. PAAS BAITHO TABIYAT BEHEL JAYEGI, MOUT BHI AA GAYI HO TO TAL JAYEGI
4. MERI MUHABBAT PAAK MUHOBBAT, AUR JAHAN KI KHAK MUHOBBAT
5. NAZAR NA LAG JAYE KISI KI RAHON MEIN, CHHUPA KE RAKHDUN MEIN TUJHE NIGAHON MEIN
6. AISE TO NA DEKHO KE HUMKO NASHA HO JAAYE
7. TU MERE SAAMNE HAI, TERI ZULFEIN HAI KHULI
The above are only a few of hundreds of the very sexy songs rendered by Mohammed Rafi in his inimitable style.
Yeah Kishore Kumar too sang a few good songs in some sexy voice for e.g. ROOP TERA MASTANA, PYAR MERA DEEWANA but they are few and far between. Rafi on the other hand was at his sexiest best both in solo as well as duet songs. I remember when the song HAI RE HAI NEEND NAHI AYE from Humjoli was at the top, the girls of that era simply swooned at the voice of Rafi. While he sings Dil Ne Dil Se Kya Kaha, the emphasis that he lays on KYA KAHA was simply marvelous. Then again, in the song - Thahariye Hosh Mein Aa Lun, Toh Chale Jaiyega – the paragraph - KAB TALAK RAHIYEGA YUN NOOR KI CHAAHAT BANKAR, PAAS AANE BHI DO IKRARE MUHOBBAT BANKAR – was not just pure magic but also something that takes us into a dreamland of our own. Then there was YEH DIL DIWANA HAI, DIL TO DIWANA HAI, DIWANA DIL HAI YEH, DIL DIWANA, a duet with Lata Mangeshkar. Here again the subtle difference in the way every stanza is rendered, every word is pronounced, Rafi excelled to the hilt. His part of the song was very sexy when compared to Lata’s portion in the song.
Well. I hope I have not created yet another furore of Rafi versus the other singers. That was not my intention at all. Readers would therefore be advised to highlight similar songs by Rafi – solo or duets – which exhibit his sexy voice. We were lucky indeed to have been born in the same era as Mohd. Rafi and will cherish his songs until the end. Generations before him have missed out on the very best in music, but generations to come will continue to listen to songs of Mohd. Rafi again and again. For, the magic that he wove with his GAYIKI was mesmerizing indeed.
asmurty2@rediffmail.com, rafimurty@gmail.com
Each one of us must have heard close to a 100,000 songs in various languages, rendered by various artistes of all hues. Many great singers have entertained us with their thousands of songs over the last several decades and many more will continue to do so in the coming eras. We may not be familiar with singers of yore or the distant lands and how best they are comparable with the singers of the sub-continent. But even as we listen to Arabic songs or the Spanish ones, music lovers can differentiate between a good composition and a bad one. Or for that matter, the Gayaki of the singers is perceptible. Close to home, again we have had hundreds of exponents of all types of music – from Hindustani to Persian to Folk to Carnatic ultimately to the filmi HINDI-URDU mixture of Bollywood. Each one of them had their own distinctive style of singing. But all could not sing all the types of songs. Just imagine K L Saigal (god bless his soul) singing for e.g. TUM KAMSIN HO, NAADAN HO, NAZUK HO or a Mukesh rendering TUMSE KAHUN IK BAAT PARO SE HALKE HALKE. The head starts spinning isn’t it ?? Something jarringly is missing out there. One can imagine a Rafi singing DIL JALTA HAI TO JALNE DE but certainly not the first two examples.
For most people the world over a sexy thing easily is a woman. For most women, it could mean either of the two sexes. But when it boils down to mere GAYIKI or simply the voice, there will be no divided opinion as to who was the sexiest singer of all times. MOHAMMED RAFI indeed. Take the following songs for instance :
1. AAJA RE AA ZARA, LEHARA KE AA ZARA
2. AAJ KI RAAT YEH KAISI RAAT KE HUMKO NEEND NAHI AATI
3. PAAS BAITHO TABIYAT BEHEL JAYEGI, MOUT BHI AA GAYI HO TO TAL JAYEGI
4. MERI MUHABBAT PAAK MUHOBBAT, AUR JAHAN KI KHAK MUHOBBAT
5. NAZAR NA LAG JAYE KISI KI RAHON MEIN, CHHUPA KE RAKHDUN MEIN TUJHE NIGAHON MEIN
6. AISE TO NA DEKHO KE HUMKO NASHA HO JAAYE
7. TU MERE SAAMNE HAI, TERI ZULFEIN HAI KHULI
The above are only a few of hundreds of the very sexy songs rendered by Mohammed Rafi in his inimitable style.
Yeah Kishore Kumar too sang a few good songs in some sexy voice for e.g. ROOP TERA MASTANA, PYAR MERA DEEWANA but they are few and far between. Rafi on the other hand was at his sexiest best both in solo as well as duet songs. I remember when the song HAI RE HAI NEEND NAHI AYE from Humjoli was at the top, the girls of that era simply swooned at the voice of Rafi. While he sings Dil Ne Dil Se Kya Kaha, the emphasis that he lays on KYA KAHA was simply marvelous. Then again, in the song - Thahariye Hosh Mein Aa Lun, Toh Chale Jaiyega – the paragraph - KAB TALAK RAHIYEGA YUN NOOR KI CHAAHAT BANKAR, PAAS AANE BHI DO IKRARE MUHOBBAT BANKAR – was not just pure magic but also something that takes us into a dreamland of our own. Then there was YEH DIL DIWANA HAI, DIL TO DIWANA HAI, DIWANA DIL HAI YEH, DIL DIWANA, a duet with Lata Mangeshkar. Here again the subtle difference in the way every stanza is rendered, every word is pronounced, Rafi excelled to the hilt. His part of the song was very sexy when compared to Lata’s portion in the song.
Well. I hope I have not created yet another furore of Rafi versus the other singers. That was not my intention at all. Readers would therefore be advised to highlight similar songs by Rafi – solo or duets – which exhibit his sexy voice. We were lucky indeed to have been born in the same era as Mohd. Rafi and will cherish his songs until the end. Generations before him have missed out on the very best in music, but generations to come will continue to listen to songs of Mohd. Rafi again and again. For, the magic that he wove with his GAYIKI was mesmerizing indeed.
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