Two quiz questions on Rafi Saab tonight:
1) Mohammad Rafi won only one National Award for best singer. Which actor lip-synced for this song on screen?
2) This was a duet. Who was the female singer who accompanied Mohammad Rafi?
If your answer to (1) is Shammi Kapoor, Dev Anand, Rajendra Kumar, Raaj Kumar, Dilip Kumar, Dharmendra, Jeetendra, you will be way, way off the mark. Again, if your answer to (2) is Lata Mangeshkar, Asha Bhonsle, Geeta Dutt, Suman Kalyanpur… you will be nowhere near the mark. The right answers — 1) Tariq Hussain or simply Tariq 2) Sushma Shrestha
Absolutely inexplicable why Rafi won only one National Award that too so late in his career! The film – *Hum Kisise Kum Nahin* with lyrics by Majrooh Sultanpuri and music by R.D. Burman was released in 1977-78. This song blends the traditional and new-age music of the time so beautifully with Rafi Saab carrying it off with effortless ease.
Magic of Mohammad Rafi -25
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