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This was sent by a friend. I am posting as is. Please note that
1. It has mistakes.
2. It is incomplete.
Please help me fix it and make it complete by adding songs from your collection or the internet. For internet songs, it will be good to include links.
Another feature to note. The songs ending with NA are not available with me. All the other songs from this list has been posted on my website. Just search for rafi, you will get them all.
File list Rafi songs, Zip file
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I have had the following photo with me since May 2006. I have no idea how I obtained it.
It shows Naushad and Gurudutt having bagged a tiger in the jungles of Madhya Pradesh. Looks like the photo was given to the editors of Bhaskar by a Khandwa photographer. The hunt may have happened around 1956. Photo does not say who the others are.
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When I bought a copy of the very first edition of the first published volume of Hindi Film Geet Kosh (1951-1960) in 1980, I was overjoyed. I had never seen anything like it. After a few months I calmed down and started finding misprints. One of the most annoying was the name of this lyricist spelt as Raja Mehndi Ali Khan (with an extra 'n'). I hesitated to contact the author because, I thought, it is too late to do anything. Also surely, somebody must have told him by now.
Imagine my surprise when I obtained the Revised Edition in 1997, it had the same mistake! To this day I deeply regret not having sent him a postcard in 1980.
It turns out that it is a very common mistake, even producers of films, who hired him to write the lyrics, misspell his name.
See here a title card from Jab Yaad Kisee Kee Aatee Hai (1967)
Please note that his name has the word Mehdi, not Mehndi.
Note: This has been corrected in all the latest editions and the Database Website.
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