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interwiki-as mw-list-item"><a href="https://as.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%AE%E0%A6%B9%E0%A6%AE%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%AE%E0%A6%A6_%E0%A7%B0%E0%A6%AB%E0%A6%BF" title="মহম্মদ ৰফি – Assamese" lang="as" hreflang="as" data-title="মহম্মদ ৰফি" data-language-autonym="অসমীয়া" data-language-local-name="Assamese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>অসমীয়া</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ast mw-list-item"><a href="https://ast.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammed_Rafi" title="Mohammed Rafi – Asturian" lang="ast" hreflang="ast" data-title="Mohammed Rafi" data-language-autonym="Asturianu" data-language-local-name="Asturian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Asturianu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-azb mw-list-item"><a href="https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%AD%D9%85%D8%AF_%D8%B1%D9%81%DB%8C%D8%B9" title="محمد رفیع – South Azerbaijani" lang="azb" hreflang="azb" data-title="محمد رفیع" data-language-autonym="تۆرکجه" data-language-local-name="South Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>تۆرکجه</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bn mw-list-item"><a href="https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%AE%E0%A7%8B%E0%A6%B9%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%AE%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%AE%E0%A6%A6_%E0%A6%B0%E0%A6%AB%E0%A6%BF" title="মোহাম্মদ রফি – Bangla" lang="bn" hreflang="bn" data-title="মোহাম্মদ রফি" data-language-autonym="বাংলা" data-language-local-name="Bangla" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>বাংলা</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ba mw-list-item"><a href="https://ba.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D3%A9%D1%85%D3%99%D0%BC%D0%BC%D3%99%D0%B4_%D0%A0%D0%B0%D1%84%D0%B8" title="Мөхәммәд Рафи – Bashkir" lang="ba" hreflang="ba" data-title="Мөхәммәд Рафи" data-language-autonym="Башҡортса" data-language-local-name="Bashkir" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Башҡортса</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammed_Rafi" title="Mohammed Rafi – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Mohammed Rafi" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammed_Rafi" title="Mohammed Rafi – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Mohammed Rafi" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammed_Rafi" title="Mohammed Rafi – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Mohammed Rafi" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-dv mw-list-item"><a href="https://dv.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DE%89%DE%AA%DE%99%DE%A6%DE%87%DE%B0%DE%89%DE%A6%DE%8B%DE%AA_%DE%83%DE%A6%DE%8A%DE%A9%DE%A2%DE%AA" title="މުޙައްމަދު ރަފީޢު – Divehi" lang="dv" hreflang="dv" data-title="މުޙައްމަދު ރަފީޢު" data-language-autonym="ދިވެހިބަސް" data-language-local-name="Divehi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ދިވެހިބަސް</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-dty mw-list-item"><a href="https://dty.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%AE%E0%A5%8B%E0%A4%B9%E0%A4%AE%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%A6_%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%AB%E0%A5%80" title="मोहम्मद रफी – Doteli" lang="dty" hreflang="dty" data-title="मोहम्मद रफी" data-language-autonym="डोटेली" data-language-local-name="Doteli" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>डोटेली</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammed_Rafi" title="Mohammed Rafi – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Mohammed Rafi" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammed_Rafi" title="Mohammed Rafi – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="Mohammed Rafi" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Euskara</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%AD%D9%85%D8%AF_%D8%B1%D9%81%DB%8C%D8%B9" title="محمد رفیع – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="محمد رفیع" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hif mw-list-item"><a href="https://hif.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammed_Rafi" title="Mohammed Rafi – Fiji Hindi" lang="hif" hreflang="hif" data-title="Mohammed Rafi" data-language-autonym="Fiji Hindi" data-language-local-name="Fiji Hindi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Fiji Hindi</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammed_Rafi" title="Mohammed Rafi – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Mohammed Rafi" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gl mw-list-item"><a href="https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammed_Rafi" title="Mohammed Rafi – Galician" lang="gl" hreflang="gl" data-title="Mohammed Rafi" data-language-autonym="Galego" data-language-local-name="Galician" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Galego</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gu mw-list-item"><a href="https://gu.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AA%AE%E0%AB%8B%E0%AA%B9%E0%AA%AE%E0%AB%8D%E0%AA%AE%E0%AA%A6_%E0%AA%B0%E0%AA%AB%E0%AB%80" title="મોહમ્મદ રફી – Gujarati" lang="gu" hreflang="gu" data-title="મોહમ્મદ રફી" data-language-autonym="ગુજરાતી" data-language-local-name="Gujarati" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ગુજરાતી</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%AA%A8%ED%95%98%EB%A9%94%EB%93%9C_%EB%9D%BC%ED%94%BC" title="모하메드 라피 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="모하메드 라피" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hy mw-list-item"><a href="https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D5%84%D5%B8%D5%B0%D5%A1%D5%B4%D5%A5%D5%A4_%D5%8C%D5%A1%D6%86%D5%AB" title="Մոհամեդ Ռաֆի – Armenian" lang="hy" hreflang="hy" data-title="Մոհամեդ Ռաֆի" data-language-autonym="Հայերեն" data-language-local-name="Armenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Հայերեն</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hi mw-list-item"><a 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class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%9E%D7%95%D7%97%D7%9E%D7%93_%D7%A8%D7%A4%D7%99" title="מוחמד רפי – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="מוחמד רפי" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>עברית</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kn mw-list-item"><a href="https://kn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B2%AE%E0%B3%8A%E0%B2%B9%E0%B2%AE%E0%B3%8D%E0%B2%AE%E0%B2%A6%E0%B3%8D%E2%80%8C_%E0%B2%B0%E0%B2%AB%E0%B2%BF" title="ಮೊಹಮ್ಮದ್‌ ರಫಿ – Kannada" lang="kn" hreflang="kn" data-title="ಮೊಹಮ್ಮದ್‌ ರಫಿ" data-language-autonym="ಕನ್ನಡ" data-language-local-name="Kannada" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ಕನ್ನಡ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mai mw-list-item"><a href="https://mai.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%AE%E0%A5%8B%E0%A4%B9%E0%A4%AE%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%A6_%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%AB%E0%A5%80" title="मोहम्मद रफी – Maithili" lang="mai" hreflang="mai" data-title="मोहम्मद रफी" data-language-autonym="मैथिली" data-language-local-name="Maithili" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>मैथिली</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mg mw-list-item"><a href="https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammed_Rafi" title="Mohammed Rafi – Malagasy" lang="mg" hreflang="mg" data-title="Mohammed Rafi" data-language-autonym="Malagasy" data-language-local-name="Malagasy" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Malagasy</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ml mw-list-item"><a href="https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%AE%E0%B5%81%E0%B4%B9%E0%B4%AE%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%AE%E0%B4%A6%E0%B5%8D_%E0%B4%B1%E0%B4%AB%E0%B4%BF" title="മുഹമ്മദ് റഫി – Malayalam" lang="ml" hreflang="ml" data-title="മുഹമ്മദ് റഫി" data-language-autonym="മലയാളം" data-language-local-name="Malayalam" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>മലയാളം</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mr mw-list-item"><a href="https://mr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%AE%E0%A5%8B%E0%A4%B9%E0%A4%AE%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%A6_%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%AB%E0%A5%80" title="मोहम्मद रफी – Marathi" lang="mr" hreflang="mr" data-title="मोहम्मद रफी" data-language-autonym="मराठी" data-language-local-name="Marathi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>मराठी</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-arz mw-list-item"><a href="https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%AD%D9%85%D8%AF_%D8%B1%D9%81%DB%8C%D8%B9" title="محمد رفیع – Egyptian Arabic" lang="arz" hreflang="arz" data-title="محمد رفیع" data-language-autonym="مصرى" data-language-local-name="Egyptian Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>مصرى</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ms mw-list-item"><a href="https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammed_Rafi" title="Mohammed Rafi – Malay" lang="ms" hreflang="ms" data-title="Mohammed Rafi" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Melayu" data-language-local-name="Malay" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Melayu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammed_Rafi" title="Mohammed Rafi – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="Mohammed Rafi" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nederlands</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ne mw-list-item"><a href="https://ne.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%AE%E0%A5%8B%E0%A4%B9%E0%A4%AE%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%A6_%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%AB%E0%A5%80" title="मोहम्मद रफी – Nepali" lang="ne" hreflang="ne" data-title="मोहम्मद रफी" data-language-autonym="नेपाली" data-language-local-name="Nepali" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>नेपाली</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%A2%E3%83%8F%E3%83%A1%E3%83%89%E3%83%BB%E3%83%A9%E3%83%95%E3%82%A3" title="モハメド・ラフィ – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="モハメド・ラフィ" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>日本語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-or mw-list-item"><a href="https://or.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AC%AE%E0%AC%B9%E0%AC%AE%E0%AD%8D%E0%AC%AE%E0%AC%A6_%E0%AC%B0%E0%AC%AB%E0%AC%BF" title="ମହମ୍ମଦ ରଫି – Odia" lang="or" hreflang="or" data-title="ମହମ୍ମଦ ରଫି" data-language-autonym="ଓଡ଼ିଆ" data-language-local-name="Odia" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ଓଡ଼ିଆ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pa mw-list-item"><a href="https://pa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A8%AE%E0%A9%81%E0%A8%B9%E0%A9%B0%E0%A8%AE%E0%A8%A6_%E0%A8%B0%E0%A8%AB%E0%A8%BC%E0%A9%80" title="ਮੁਹੰਮਦ ਰਫ਼ੀ – Punjabi" lang="pa" hreflang="pa" data-title="ਮੁਹੰਮਦ ਰਫ਼ੀ" data-language-autonym="ਪੰਜਾਬੀ" data-language-local-name="Punjabi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ਪੰਜਾਬੀ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pnb mw-list-item"><a href="https://pnb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%AD%D9%85%D8%AF_%D8%B1%D9%81%DB%8C%D8%B9" title="محمد رفیع – Western Punjabi" lang="pnb" hreflang="pnb" data-title="محمد رفیع" data-language-autonym="پنجابی" data-language-local-name="Western Punjabi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>پنجابی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ps mw-list-item"><a href="https://ps.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%AD%D9%85%D8%AF_%D8%B1%D9%81%D9%8A%D8%B9" title="محمد رفيع – Pashto" lang="ps" hreflang="ps" data-title="محمد رفيع" data-language-autonym="پښتو" data-language-local-name="Pashto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>پښتو</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru mw-list-item"><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%BE%D1%85%D0%B0%D0%BC%D0%BC%D0%B5%D0%B4_%D0%A0%D0%B0%D1%84%D0%B8" title="Мохаммед Рафи – Russian" lang="ru" hreflang="ru" data-title="Мохаммед Рафи" data-language-autonym="Русский" data-language-local-name="Russian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Русский</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sa mw-list-item"><a href="https://sa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%AE%E0%A5%8B%E0%A4%B9%E0%A4%AE%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%A6_%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%AB%E0%A5%80" title="मोहम्मद रफी – Sanskrit" lang="sa" hreflang="sa" data-title="मोहम्मद रफी" data-language-autonym="संस्कृतम्" data-language-local-name="Sanskrit" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>संस्कृतम्</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-simple mw-list-item"><a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammed_Rafi" title="Mohammed Rafi – Simple English" lang="en-simple" hreflang="en-simple" data-title="Mohammed Rafi" data-language-autonym="Simple English" data-language-local-name="Simple English" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Simple English</span></a></li><li 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రఫీ – Telugu" lang="te" hreflang="te" data-title="ముహమ్మద్ రఫీ" data-language-autonym="తెలుగు" data-language-local-name="Telugu" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>తెలుగు</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-uk mw-list-item"><a href="https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D1%83%D1%85%D0%B0%D0%BC%D0%BC%D0%B5%D0%B4_%D0%A0%D0%B0%D1%84%D1%96" title="Мухаммед Рафі – Ukrainian" lang="uk" hreflang="uk" data-title="Мухаммед Рафі" data-language-autonym="Українська" data-language-local-name="Ukrainian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Українська</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ur mw-list-item"><a href="https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%AD%D9%85%D8%AF_%D8%B1%D9%81%DB%8C%D8%B9" title="محمد رفیع – Urdu" lang="ur" hreflang="ur" data-title="محمد رفیع" data-language-autonym="اردو" data-language-local-name="Urdu" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>اردو</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-vi mw-list-item"><a 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India)</span></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Died</th><td class="infobox-data">31 July 1980<span style="display:none">(1980-07-31)</span> (aged 55)<br /><div style="display:inline" class="deathplace"><a href="/wiki/Bombay" class="mw-redirect" title="Bombay">Bombay</a>, <a href="/wiki/Maharashtra" title="Maharashtra">Maharashtra</a>, India</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Occupation</th><td class="infobox-data role">Playback singer</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Years active</th><td class="infobox-data">1944–1980</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Spouses</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="plainlist"> <ul><li><style 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href="/wiki/Filmfare_Award_for_Best_Male_Playback_Singer" title="Filmfare Award for Best Male Playback Singer">Filmfare Award for Best Male Playback Singer</a> (6 times)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bengal_Film_Journalists%27_Association_%E2%80%93_Best_Male_Playback_Award" title="Bengal Film Journalists' Association – Best Male Playback Award">BFJA Best Male Playback Award</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Film_Award_for_Best_Male_Playback_Singer" title="National Film Award for Best Male Playback Singer">National Film Award for Best Male Playback Singer</a> (1 time)</li></ul> </td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Honours</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Padma_Shri" title="Padma Shri">Padma Shri</a> (1967)</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"><b>Musical career</b></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Genres</th><td class="infobox-data"><style 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style="display:none">Musical artist</div></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Signature</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><span class="infobox-signature skin-invert" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Mohammed_Rafi_Signature.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/16/Mohammed_Rafi_Signature.svg/150px-Mohammed_Rafi_Signature.svg.png" decoding="async" width="150" height="66" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/16/Mohammed_Rafi_Signature.svg/225px-Mohammed_Rafi_Signature.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/16/Mohammed_Rafi_Signature.svg/300px-Mohammed_Rafi_Signature.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1125" data-file-height="495" /></a></span></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Mohammed Rafi</b> (24 December 1924 – 31 July 1980) was an Indian playback singer. He is considered to have been one of the greatest and most influential singers of the <a href="/wiki/Indian_subcontinent" title="Indian subcontinent">Indian subcontinent</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-thehindu.com_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-thehindu.com-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Rafi was notable for his versatility and range of voice; his songs varied from fast peppy numbers to patriotic <a href="/wiki/Song" title="Song">songs</a>, sad numbers to highly romantic songs, <a href="/wiki/Qawwali" title="Qawwali">qawwalis</a> to <a href="/wiki/Ghazals" class="mw-redirect" title="Ghazals">ghazals</a> and <a href="/wiki/Bhajans" class="mw-redirect" title="Bhajans">bhajans</a> to <a href="/wiki/Indian_classical_music" title="Indian classical music">classical</a> songs.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was known for his ability to mould his voice to the persona and style of the actor lip-syncing the song on screen in the movie.<sup id="cite_ref-EBIndia2_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EBIndia2-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He received six <a href="/wiki/Filmfare_Awards" title="Filmfare Awards">Filmfare Awards</a> and one <a href="/wiki/National_Film_Award_for_Best_Male_Playback_Singer" title="National Film Award for Best Male Playback Singer">National Film Award</a>. In 1967, he was honored with the <a href="/wiki/Padma_Shri" title="Padma Shri">Padma Shri</a> award by the <a href="/wiki/Government_of_India" title="Government of India">Government of India</a>. In 2001, Rafi was honoured with the "Best Singer of the Millennium" title by <a href="/wiki/Hero_Honda" class="mw-redirect" title="Hero Honda">Hero Honda</a> and <a href="/wiki/Stardust_(magazine)" title="Stardust (magazine)">Stardust magazine</a>. In 2013, Rafi was voted for the Greatest Voice in Hindi Cinema in the CNN-IBN's poll.<sup id="cite_ref-ibnlive1_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ibnlive1-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>He recorded songs for over a thousand <a href="/wiki/Hindi" title="Hindi">Hindi</a> films and in many Indian languages as well as some foreign languages, though primarily in <a href="/wiki/Urdu" title="Urdu">Urdu</a> and <a href="/wiki/Punjabi_language" title="Punjabi language">Punjabi</a>, over which he had a strong command. He recorded as many as 7,000 songs throughout his career, spanning several languages such as <a href="/wiki/Konkani_language" title="Konkani language">Konkani</a>, <a href="/wiki/Assamese_language" title="Assamese language">Assamese</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bhojpuri_language" title="Bhojpuri language">Bhojpuri</a>, <a href="/wiki/Odia_language" title="Odia language">Odia</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bengali_language" title="Bengali language">Bengali</a>, <a href="/wiki/Marathi_language" title="Marathi language">Marathi</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sindhi_language" title="Sindhi language">Sindhi</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kannada" title="Kannada">Kannada</a>, <a href="/wiki/Gujarati_language" title="Gujarati language">Gujarati</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tamil_language" title="Tamil language">Tamil</a>, <a href="/wiki/Telugu_language" title="Telugu language">Telugu</a>, <a href="/wiki/Magahi_language" title="Magahi language">Magahi</a>, <a href="/wiki/Maithili_language" title="Maithili language">Maithili</a>, etc. Apart from <a href="/wiki/India" title="India">Indian</a> languages, he also sang in some foreign languages, including <a href="/wiki/English_language" title="English language">English</a>, <a href="/wiki/Farsi_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Farsi language">Persian</a>, <a href="/wiki/Arabic" title="Arabic">Arabic</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sinhala_language" title="Sinhala language">Sinhala</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mauritian_Creole" title="Mauritian Creole">Mauritian Creole</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Dutch_language" title="Dutch language">Dutch</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life">Early life</h2></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Mohammed_Rafi%27s_family_tree.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bf/Mohammed_Rafi%27s_family_tree.jpg/220px-Mohammed_Rafi%27s_family_tree.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="110" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bf/Mohammed_Rafi%27s_family_tree.jpg/330px-Mohammed_Rafi%27s_family_tree.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bf/Mohammed_Rafi%27s_family_tree.jpg/440px-Mohammed_Rafi%27s_family_tree.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2000" data-file-height="1000" /></a><figcaption>Rafi's family tree.</figcaption></figure> <p>Mohammed Rafi was the second eldest of six brothers born to Allah Rakhi and Haji Ali Mohammad in a <a href="/wiki/Punjabis" title="Punjabis">Punjabi</a> <a href="/wiki/Jat_Muslim" title="Jat Muslim">Jat Muslim</a> family.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The family originally belonged to <a href="/wiki/Kotla_Sultan_Singh" title="Kotla Sultan Singh">Kotla Sultan Singh</a>, a village near present-day <a href="/wiki/Majitha" title="Majitha">Majitha</a> in <a href="/wiki/Amritsar_district" title="Amritsar district">Amritsar district</a> of <a href="/wiki/Punjab,_India" title="Punjab, India">Punjab, India</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-tribuneindia_striking_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-tribuneindia_striking-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Rafi, whose nickname was <i>Pheeko</i>, began singing by imitating the chants of a <a href="/wiki/Fakir" title="Fakir">fakir</a> who roamed the streets of his native village Kotla Sultan Singh. Rafi's father moved to <a href="/wiki/Lahore" title="Lahore">Lahore</a> in 1935, where he ran a men's barbershop in Noor Mohalla in <a href="/wiki/Bhati_Gate" title="Bhati Gate">Bhati Gate</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Rafi learnt <a href="/wiki/Indian_Classical_Music" class="mw-redirect" title="Indian Classical Music">classical music</a> from <a href="/wiki/Ustad_Abdul_Wahid_Khan" class="mw-redirect" title="Ustad Abdul Wahid Khan">Ustad Abdul Wahid Khan</a>, Pandit Jiwan Lal Mattoo and Firoze Nizami.<sup id="cite_ref-tribuneindia_sang_for_kishore_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-tribuneindia_sang_for_kishore-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His first public performance came at the age of 13, when he sang in Lahore featuring <a href="/wiki/K._L._Saigal" title="K. L. Saigal">K. L. Saigal</a>. In 1941, Rafi made his debut in Lahore as a playback singer in the duet "Goriye Nee, Heeriye Nee" with Zeenat Begum in the <a href="/wiki/Punjabi_cinema" title="Punjabi cinema">Punjabi film</a> <i>Gul Baloch</i> (released in 1944) under music director Shyam Sunder.<sup id="cite_ref-tribune_his_voice_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-tribune_his_voice-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In that same year, Rafi was invited by <a href="/wiki/All_India_Radio" title="All India Radio">All India Radio</a> <a href="/wiki/Lahore" title="Lahore">Lahore</a> station to sing for them.<sup id="cite_ref-sangeetmahal_hall_of_fame_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sangeetmahal_hall_of_fame-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>He made his <a href="/wiki/Hindi_cinema" title="Hindi cinema">Hindi film</a> debut in <i><a href="/wiki/Gaon_Ki_Gori" title="Gaon Ki Gori">Gaon Ki Gori</a></i> in 1945.<sup id="cite_ref-EBIndia2_8-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EBIndia2-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_career_in_Bombay">Early career in Bombay</h2></div> <p>Rafi moved to <a href="/wiki/Mumbai" title="Mumbai">Bombay</a> (now Mumbai), <a href="/wiki/Maharashtra" title="Maharashtra">Maharashtra</a> in 1944. He and Hameed Sahab rented a ten-by-ten-feet room in the crowded downtown Bhendi Bazar area. Poet Tanvir Naqvi introduced him to film producers including <a href="/wiki/Abdur_Rashid_Kardar" title="Abdur Rashid Kardar">Abdur Rashid Kardar</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mehboob_Khan" title="Mehboob Khan">Mehboob Khan</a> and actor-director Nazeer.<sup id="cite_ref-dailytimes_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-dailytimes-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Shyam Sunder was in Bombay and provided the opportunity to Rafi to sing a duet with <a href="/wiki/G._M._Durrani" title="G. M. Durrani">G. M. Durrani</a>, "Aji dil ho kaabu mein to dildar ki aisi taisi...," for <i>Gaon Ki Gori</i>, which became Rafi's first recorded song in a Hindi film. Other songs followed. </p><p>Rafi's first song with <a href="/wiki/Naushad" title="Naushad">Naushad</a> was "Hindustan Ke Hum Hain" with Shyam Kumar, Alauddin and others, from A. R. Kardar's <i>Pehle Aap</i> (1944). Around the same time, Rafi recorded another song for the 1945 film <i>Gaon Ki Gori</i>, "Aji Dil Ho Kaaboo Mein". He considered this song to be his first Hindi language song.<sup id="cite_ref-sangeetmahal_hall_of_fame_16-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sangeetmahal_hall_of_fame-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Rafi appeared in two movies. He appeared on the screen for the songs "Tera Jalwa Jis Ne Dekha" in film <i>Laila Majnu</i>(1945) and "Woh Apni Yaad Dilane Ko" in the Film <i>Jugnu</i> (1947).<sup id="cite_ref-sangeetmahal_hall_of_fame_16-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sangeetmahal_hall_of_fame-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He sang a number of songs for Naushad as part of the chorus, including "Mere Sapnon Ki Rani, Roohi Roohi" with <a href="/wiki/K._L._Saigal" title="K. L. Saigal">K. L. Saigal</a>, from the film <i>Shahjahan</i> (1946). Rafi sang "Tera Khilona Toota Balak" from Mehboob Khan's <i>Anmol Ghadi</i> (1946) and a duet with <a href="/wiki/Noor_Jehan" title="Noor Jehan">Noor Jehan</a> in the 1947 film <i>Jugnu</i>, "Yahan Badla Wafa Ka". After partition, Rafi decided to stay back in India and had the rest of his family flown to <a href="/wiki/Mumbai" title="Mumbai">Bombay</a>. Noor Jehan migrated to <a href="/wiki/Pakistan" title="Pakistan">Pakistan</a> and made a pair with playback singer <a href="/wiki/Ahmed_Rushdi" title="Ahmed Rushdi">Ahmed Rushdi</a>. </p><p>In 1949, Rafi was given solo songs by music directors such as Naushad (<i>Chandni Raat</i>, <i>Dillagi</i> and <i>Dulari</i>), Shyam Sunder (<i><a href="/wiki/Bazaar" title="Bazaar">Bazaar</a></i>) and Husnalal Bhagatram (<i>Meena Bazaar</i>). </p><p>Besides K. L. Saigal, whom he considered his favorite, Rafi was also influenced by G. M. Durrani. In the early phase of his career, he often followed Durrani's style of singing, but later evolved his own, unique style. He sang with Durrani in some of the songs such as "Humko Hanste Dekh Zamana Jalta Hai" and "Khabar Kisi Ko Nahiin, Woh Kidhar Dekhte" (<i>Beqasoor</i>, 1950). </p><p>In 1948, after the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi, the team of Husanlal Bhagatram-Rajendra Krishan-Rafi had overnight created the song "Suno Suno Ae Duniyawalon, Bapuji Ki Amar Kahani". He was invited by the Indian Prime Minister, <a href="/wiki/Jawaharlal_Nehru" title="Jawaharlal Nehru">Jawaharlal Nehru</a>, to sing at his house. In 1948, Rafi received a silver medal from Jawaharlal Nehru on Indian Independence Day.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Recording_career_in_the_1950s_and_1960s">Recording career in the 1950s and 1960s</h2></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/List_of_songs_recorded_by_Mohammed_Rafi" title="List of songs recorded by Mohammed Rafi">List of songs recorded by Mohammed Rafi</a></div> <p>In his early career, Rafi associated with many contemporary music directors, most notably <a href="/wiki/Naushad_Ali" class="mw-redirect" title="Naushad Ali">Naushad Ali</a>. In the late 1950s and 1960s, he worked with other composers of the era such as <a href="/wiki/O._P._Nayyar" title="O. P. Nayyar">O. P. Nayyar</a>, <a href="/wiki/Shankar_Jaikishan" class="mw-redirect" title="Shankar Jaikishan">Shankar Jaikishan</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sachin_Dev_Burman" class="mw-redirect" title="Sachin Dev Burman">S.D. Burman</a> and <a href="/wiki/Roshan_(music_director)" title="Roshan (music director)">Roshan</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Work_with_Naushad">Work with Naushad</h3></div> <p>As per Naushad, Rafi came to him with a letter of recommendation from Naushad's father.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Rafi's first song for Naushad Ali was "Hindustan Ke Hum Hain" ("We belong to Hindustan") for the film <i>Pehle Aap</i> in 1944. The first song for the duo was the soundtrack of the movie <i>Anmol Ghadi</i> (1946). </p><p>Rafi's association with Naushad helped the former establish himself as one of the most prominent playback singers in Hindi cinema.<sup id="cite_ref-sangeetmahal_hall_of_fame_16-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sangeetmahal_hall_of_fame-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Songs from <i><a href="/wiki/Baiju_Bawra_(1952_film)" class="mw-redirect" title="Baiju Bawra (1952 film)">Baiju Bawra</a></i> (1952) like "O duniya ke rakhwale" and "Man tarpat hari darshan ko aaj" furthered Rafi's credentials.<sup id="cite_ref-tribune_his_voice_15-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-tribune_his_voice-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Rafi ended up singing a total of 149 songs (81 of them solo) for Naushad. Before Rafi, Naushad's favorite singer was <a href="/wiki/Talat_Mahmood" title="Talat Mahmood">Talat Mahmood</a>. Once Naushad found Talat smoking during a recording.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability#Self-published_sources" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability"><span title="The material near this tag may rely on a self-published source. (February 2020)">self-published source?</span></a></i>]</sup> He was annoyed and hired Rafi to sing all the songs of the movie <i>Baiju Bawra</i>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Work_with_S._D._Burman">Work with S. D. Burman</h3></div> <p>S. D. Burman used Rafi as a singing voice of <a href="/wiki/Dev_Anand" title="Dev Anand">Dev Anand</a> and <a href="/wiki/Guru_Dutt" title="Guru Dutt">Guru Dutt</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-how_fair_raju2_23-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-how_fair_raju2-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Rafi worked with Burman in 37 films, including <i><a href="/wiki/Pyaasa" title="Pyaasa">Pyaasa</a></i> (1957), <i><a href="/wiki/Kaagaz_Ke_Phool" title="Kaagaz Ke Phool">Kaagaz Ke Phool</a></i> (1959), <i><a href="/wiki/Kala_Bazar" title="Kala Bazar">Kala Bazar</a></i> (1960), <i><a href="/wiki/Nau_Do_Gyarah" title="Nau Do Gyarah">Nau Do Gyarah</a></i> (1957), <i><a href="/wiki/Kala_Pani_(1958_film)" title="Kala Pani (1958 film)">Kala Pani</a></i> (1958), <i><a href="/wiki/Tere_Ghar_Ke_Saamne" class="mw-redirect" title="Tere Ghar Ke Saamne">Tere Ghar Ke Saamne</a></i> (1963), <i><a href="/wiki/Guide_(film)" title="Guide (film)">Guide</a></i> (1965), <i><a href="/wiki/Aradhana_(1969_film)" title="Aradhana (1969 film)">Aradhana</a></i> (1969), <a href="/wiki/Ishq_Par_Zor_Nahin" title="Ishq Par Zor Nahin">Ishq Par Zor Nahin</a> (1970) and <i><a href="/wiki/Abhimaan_(1973_film)" title="Abhimaan (1973 film)">Abhimaan</a></i> (1973). </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Work_with_Shankar–Jaikishan"><span id="Work_with_Shankar.E2.80.93Jaikishan"></span>Work with Shankar–Jaikishan</h3></div> <p>Rafi's partnership with <a href="/wiki/Shankar%E2%80%93Jaikishan" title="Shankar–Jaikishan">Shankar–Jaikishan</a> was among the most famous and successful in the Hindi film industry. He worked with them from their first film, <i><a href="/wiki/Barsaat_(1949_film)" title="Barsaat (1949 film)">Barsaat</a></i> (1949). Under Shankar–Jaikishan, Rafi produced some of his songs for actors like <a href="/wiki/Shammi_Kapoor" title="Shammi Kapoor">Shammi Kapoor</a> and <a href="/wiki/Rajendra_Kumar" title="Rajendra Kumar">Rajendra Kumar</a>. Out of six Filmfare awards, Rafi won three for S-J songs – "Teri Pyaari Pyaari Surat Ko", "Bahaaron Phool Barsaao" and "Dil Ke Jharokhe Mein." The song "Yahoo! Chaahe Koi Mujhe Junglee Kahe" was sung by Rafi, matched by a fast-paced orchestra and composition by Shankar Jaikishan. S-J had Rafi give playback for Kishore Kumar in the film <i>Sharaarat</i> ("Ajab Hai Daastaan Teri Ye Zindagi"). Rafi sang a total of 341 numbers—216 solo—for Shankar–Jaikishan.<sup id="cite_ref-how_fair_raju1_24-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-how_fair_raju1-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Among the films of this combination are: <i><a href="/wiki/Awaara" title="Awaara">Awaara</a></i>, <a href="/wiki/Boot_Polish_(film)" title="Boot Polish (film)"><i>Boot Polish</i></a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Basant_Bahar_(film)" title="Basant Bahar (film)">Basant Bahar</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/Professor_(1962_film)" title="Professor (1962 film)">Professor</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/Junglee_(1961_film)" title="Junglee (1961 film)">Junglee</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/Asli-Naqli" title="Asli-Naqli">Asli-Naqli</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/Rajkumar_(1964_film)" title="Rajkumar (1964 film)">Rajkumar</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/Suraj_(1966_film)" class="mw-redirect" title="Suraj (1966 film)">Suraj</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/Sangam_(1964_Hindi_film)" title="Sangam (1964 Hindi film)">Sangam</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/Brahmachari_(Hindi_film)" class="mw-redirect" title="Brahmachari (Hindi film)">Brahmachari</a></i>, <a href="/wiki/Arzoo_(1965_film)" title="Arzoo (1965 film)">Arzoo</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/An_Evening_in_Paris" title="An Evening in Paris">An Evening in Paris</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/Dil_Tera_Diwana_(1962_film)" title="Dil Tera Diwana (1962 film)">Dil Tera Deewana</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/Yakeen_(1969_film)" title="Yakeen (1969 film)">Yakeen</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/Prince_(1969_film)" title="Prince (1969 film)">Prince</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/Love_in_Tokyo" title="Love in Tokyo">Love in Tokyo</a></i>, <i>Beti Bete</i>, <i><a href="/wiki/Dil_Ek_Mandir" title="Dil Ek Mandir">Dil Ek Mandir</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/Dil_Apna_Aur_Preet_Parai" title="Dil Apna Aur Preet Parai">Dil Apna Aur Preet Parai</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/Gaban_(1966_film)" class="mw-redirect" title="Gaban (1966 film)">Gaban</a></i> and <i><a href="/wiki/Jab_Pyar_Kisi_Se_Hota_Hai" title="Jab Pyar Kisi Se Hota Hai">Jab Pyar Kisi Se Hota Hai</a></i>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Work_with_Ravi">Work with Ravi</h3></div> <p>Rafi got his first <a href="/wiki/Filmfare_Best_Male_Playback_Award" class="mw-redirect" title="Filmfare Best Male Playback Award">Filmfare Award</a> for the title song of <i><a href="/wiki/Chaudhvin_Ka_Chand" title="Chaudhvin Ka Chand">Chaudhvin Ka Chand</a></i> (1960), composed by <a href="/wiki/Ravi_(music_director)" class="mw-redirect" title="Ravi (music director)">Ravi</a>. He received the <a href="/wiki/National_Film_Awards" title="National Film Awards">National Award</a> for the song "Baabul Ki Duaen Leti Jaa" from the film <i><a href="/wiki/Neel_Kamal_(1968_film)" title="Neel Kamal (1968 film)">Neel Kamal</a></i> (1968), also composed by Ravi. Rafi wept during the recording of this song, which he admitted in a 1977 interview with the BBC.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Ravi and Rafi produced several other songs in the films <i><a href="/wiki/China_Town_(1962_film)" title="China Town (1962 film)">China Town</a></i> (1962), <i><a href="/wiki/Kaajal" title="Kaajal">Kaajal</a></i> (1965), <i><a href="/wiki/Do_Badan" title="Do Badan">Do Badan</a></i> (1966) and <a href="/wiki/Ek_Phool_Do_Maali" class="mw-redirect" title="Ek Phool Do Maali">Ek Phool Do Maali</a> (1969) </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Work_with_Madan_Mohan">Work with Madan Mohan</h3></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Madan_Mohan_(music_director)" class="mw-redirect" title="Madan Mohan (music director)">Madan Mohan</a> was another composer whose favorite singer was Rafi. Rafi's first solo with Madan Mohan in <i>Aankhen</i> (1950) was "Hum Ishk Mein Burbaad Hein Burbaad Ruhenge".<sup id="cite_ref-sangeetmahal_hall_of_fame_16-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sangeetmahal_hall_of_fame-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> They teamed up to produce many songs including "Teree Aankhon Ke Sivaa", "Yeh Duniyaa Yeh Mehfil", "Tum Jo Mil Guye Ho", "<a href="/wiki/Kar_chale_hum_fida" title="Kar chale hum fida">Kur Chale Hum Fida</a>", "Meree Aawaaz Suno" and "Aap Ke Pehlu Mein Aakur". </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Work_with_O._P._Nayyar">Work with O. P. Nayyar</h3></div> <p>Rafi and <a href="/wiki/O._P._Nayyar" title="O. P. Nayyar">O. P. Nayyar</a> (OP) created music in the 1950s and 1960s. O. P. Nayyar was once quoted as saying "If there had been no Mohammed Rafi, there would have been no O. P. Nayyar".<sup id="cite_ref-Rafi001_26-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Rafi001-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>He and Rafi created many songs together including "Yeh Hai Bombay Meri Jaan". He got Rafi to sing for singer-actor <a href="/wiki/Kishore_Kumar" title="Kishore Kumar">Kishore Kumar</a> – "Man Mora Baawara" for the movie <i>Raagini</i>. Later, Rafi sang for Kishore Kumar in movies such as <i>Baaghi</i>, <i>Shehzaada</i> and <i>Shararat</i>. O. P. Nayyar used Rafi and Asha Bhosle for most of his songs. The team created many songs in the early 1950s and 1960s for movies such as <i><a href="/wiki/Naya_Daur_(1957_film)" title="Naya Daur (1957 film)">Naya Daur</a></i> (1957), <i><a href="/wiki/Tumsa_Nahin_Dekha_(1957_film)" title="Tumsa Nahin Dekha (1957 film)">Tumsa Nahin Dekha</a></i> (1957), <a href="/wiki/Ek_Musafir_Ek_Hasina" title="Ek Musafir Ek Hasina">Ek Musafir Ek Hasina</a> (1962) and <i><a href="/wiki/Kashmir_Ki_Kali" title="Kashmir Ki Kali">Kashmir Ki Kali</a></i> (1964). Rafi sang a total of 197 numbers (56 solo) for Nayyar.<sup id="cite_ref-how_fair_raju5_27-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-how_fair_raju5-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The songs "Jawaaniyan yeh mast mast" and the title song "Yun to humne lakh hansee dekhe hain, tumsa nahin dekha" of the film <i>Tumsa Nahin Dekha</i> were hits. They were followed by songs like "Yeh Chand Sa Roshan Chehera" from <i>Kashmir ki Kali</i>. </p><p>Rafi and OP had a falling-out during the recording for movie "Sawan ki Ghata". As disclosed by OP during one of his interviews; Rafi reported late to the recording stating that he was stuck in <a href="/wiki/Shankar_Jaikishan" class="mw-redirect" title="Shankar Jaikishan">Shankar Jaikishan</a>'s recording. OP then stated that from now on he too did not have the time for Rafi and cancelled the recording. They did not work together for the next 3 years.<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Work_with_Laxmikant-Pyarelal">Work with Laxmikant-Pyarelal</h3></div> <p>The composer duo <a href="/wiki/Laxmikant%E2%80%93Pyarelal" title="Laxmikant–Pyarelal">Laxmikant–Pyarelal</a> (L-P) patronized Rafi as one of their singers, right from their first song by him from the film <i><a href="/wiki/Parasmani" title="Parasmani">Parasmani</a></i> (1963). Rafi and L-P won the <a href="/wiki/Filmfare_Award" class="mw-redirect" title="Filmfare Award">Filmfare Award</a> for the song "Chaahoonga Mein Tujhe Saanjh Suvere" from <i><a href="/wiki/Dosti_(1964_film)" title="Dosti (1964 film)">Dosti</a></i> (1964). Rafi rendered the highest number of songs for this music director duo Laxmikant-Pyarelal, as compared to all the music directors: 388.<sup id="cite_ref-how_fair_raju1_24-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-how_fair_raju1-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Once, when composer <a href="/wiki/Nisar_Bazmi" title="Nisar Bazmi">Nisar Bazmi</a>, who once worked with Laxmikant-Pyarelal before he had migrated to <a href="/wiki/Pakistan" title="Pakistan">Pakistan</a>, didn't have enough money to pay him, Rafi charged a fee of one <a href="/wiki/Indian_rupee" title="Indian rupee">rupee</a> and sang for him. He also helped producers financially. As Laxmikant once observed – "He always gave without thinking of the returns". </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Work_with_Kalyanji_Anandji">Work with Kalyanji Anandji</h3></div> <p>Kalyanji Anandji composed around 170 songs in the voice of Rafi. Kalyanji's relationship with Rafi started with the 1958 film, <i>Samrat Chandragupta</i>, his debut film as a solo composer.<sup id="cite_ref-google1_29-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-google1-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Kalyani-Anandji and Rafi went on to work together for the music of the <a href="/wiki/Shashi_Kapoor" title="Shashi Kapoor">Shashi Kapoor</a>-starrer <i>Haseena Maan Jayegi</i> (1968), which featured songs like "Bekhudi Mein Sanam" and "Chale The Saath Milke".<sup id="cite_ref-google1_29-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-google1-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Work_with_contemporary_singers">Work with contemporary singers</h3></div> <p>Rafi associated with several of his contemporaries, singing duets with them and sometimes for them (as in case of Kishore Kumar who was also an actor). Rafi sang the highest number of duets with <a href="/wiki/Asha_Bhosle" title="Asha Bhosle">Asha Bhosle</a> (female), <a href="/wiki/Manna_Dey" title="Manna Dey">Manna Dey</a> (male) and <a href="/wiki/Lata_Mangeshkar" title="Lata Mangeshkar">Lata Mangeshkar</a> (female). </p><p>In the song "Humko Tumse Ho Gaya Hai Pyaar" (<i><a href="/wiki/Amar_Akbar_Anthony" title="Amar Akbar Anthony">Amar Akbar Anthony</a></i>), Rafi sang one song with Kishore Kumar, Lata Mangeshkar, and Mukesh, the most legendary singers in <a href="/wiki/Bollywood" class="mw-redirect" title="Bollywood">Bollywood</a>. This was probably the only time that all of them rendered their voices for one song.<sup id="cite_ref-zeenews_soulful_30-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-zeenews_soulful-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Work_with_other_music_directors">Work with other music directors</h3></div> <p>Rafi sang frequently for all music directors during his lifetime, including <a href="/wiki/C._Ramchandra" title="C. Ramchandra">C. Ramchandra</a>, Roshan, Jaidev, Khayyam, Rajesh Roshan, Ravindra Jain, Bappi Lahiri, Sapan Jagmohan, T.V.Raju, S.Hanumantha Rao etc. He had a special and major association with <a href="/wiki/Usha_Khanna" title="Usha Khanna">Usha Khanna</a>, <a href="/w/index.php?title=Sonik_Omi&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Sonik Omi (page does not exist)">Sonik Omi</a>, <a href="/wiki/Chitragupta_(composer)" class="mw-redirect" title="Chitragupta (composer)">Chitragupta</a>, <a href="/wiki/S._N._Tripathi" title="S. N. Tripathi">S.N. Tripathi</a>, <a href="/wiki/N._Datta" class="mw-redirect" title="N. Datta">N. Datta</a> and <a href="/wiki/R._D._Burman" title="R. D. Burman">R.D. Burman</a>. He also sang for many small time and lesser-known music directors. Many for whom he sang for free while making their compositions immortal; he selflessly believed in financially assisting producers and helping small-time projects who could not afford much. Many in the industry received regular financial help from Rafi.<sup id="cite_ref-google2_31-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-google2-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Private_albums">Private albums</h3></div> <p>Rafi sang several songs in <a href="/wiki/Chris_Perry_(musician)" title="Chris Perry (musician)">Chris Perry</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Konkani_language" title="Konkani language">Konkani</a> album Golden Hits with <a href="/wiki/Lorna_Cordeiro" title="Lorna Cordeiro">Lorna Cordeiro</a>. He recorded many private albums in various genres and languages. Rafi recorded Hindi songs in English on 7" release in 1968. He also sang 2 songs in <a href="/wiki/Mauritian_Creole" title="Mauritian Creole">Mauritian Creole</a> while on his visit to <a href="/wiki/Mauritius" title="Mauritius">Mauritius</a> in the late 1960s. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Royalty_issue">Royalty issue</h3></div> <p>In 1962–1963, the popular female playback singer <a href="/wiki/Lata_Mangeshkar" title="Lata Mangeshkar">Lata Mangeshkar</a> raised the issue of playback singers' share in the <a href="/wiki/Royalties" class="mw-redirect" title="Royalties">royalties</a>. Recognizing Rafi's position as the leading male playback singer, she wanted him to back her in demanding a half-share from the 5% song royalty that the film's producer conceded to select composers. Rafi refused to side with her, stating that his claim on the film producer's money ended with his being paid his agreed fee for the song. Rafi argued that the producer takes financial risk and the composer creates the song, so the singer does not have any claim over the royalty money. Lata viewed his stand as a stumbling block on the royalty issue and stated that it is because of the singer's name also that the records get sold. This difference of opinion subsequently led to differences between the two. During the recording of "Tasveer Teri Dil Mein" (<i>Maya</i>, 1961), Lata argued with Rafi over a certain passage of the song. Rafi felt belittled, as music director <a href="/wiki/Salil_Chowdhury" title="Salil Chowdhury">Salil Chowdhury</a> sided with Lata. The situation worsened when Lata declared that she would no longer sing with Rafi. Rafi stated that he was only so keen to sing with Lata as she was with him.<sup id="cite_ref-how_fair_raju3_32-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-how_fair_raju3-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-how_fair_raju4_33-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-how_fair_raju4-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The music director <a href="/wiki/Shankar_Jaikishan" class="mw-redirect" title="Shankar Jaikishan">Jaikishan</a> later negotiated a reconciliation between the two.<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In an interview given to <a href="/wiki/The_Times_of_India" title="The Times of India">The Times of India</a> on 25 September 2012, Lata claimed to have received a written apology from Rafi.<sup id="cite_ref-timesofindia.indiatimes.com_35-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-timesofindia.indiatimes.com-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, Shahid Rafi, Mohammad Rafi's son, rebuffs the claim, calling it an act to dishonour his father's reputation.<sup id="cite_ref-timesofindia.indiatimes.com_35-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-timesofindia.indiatimes.com-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_1970s">Early 1970s</h2></div> <p>In the 1970s, Rafi suffered from a throat infection for an extended period of time.<sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> During a brief period then, he recorded fewer songs.<sup id="cite_ref-how_fair_raju3_32-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-how_fair_raju3-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Although his musical output was relatively low during this period, Rafi did sing some of his best and most popular numbers then, such as "Yeh Duniya Yeh Mehfil", "Gulabi Aankhen", "Jhilmil Sitaron Ka Aangan Hoga", "Koi Nazrana Lekar Aaya Hu", "Aaya Re Khilonewala", "Tum Mujhe Yun Bhula Na Paaoge", "Re Mama Re Mama Re", "Nafrat Ki Duniya Ko", "Ye Jo Chilman Hai", "Kuchh Kehta Hai Ye Saawan", "Kitna Pyaara Wada", "Chalo Dildaar Chalo", "Aaj Mausam Bada Be-Imaan Hai", "Chura Liya Hai Tumne", "Yaadon Ki Baaraat Nikli Hai Aaj Dil Ke Dwaare", "Teri Bindiya Re", to name a few.<sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Later_years">Later years</h2></div> <p>Rafi made a comeback as a leading singer in mid 1970s. In 1974 he won the Film World magazine Best Singer Award for the song "Teri Galiyon Mein Na Rakhenge Kadam Aaj Ke Baad" (<a href="/wiki/Hawas_(1974_film)" title="Hawas (1974 film)">Hawas</a>, 1974) composed by <a href="/wiki/Usha_Khanna" title="Usha Khanna">Usha Khanna</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-how_fair_raju1_24-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-how_fair_raju1-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1976, Rafi sang all the songs for <a href="/wiki/Rishi_Kapoor" title="Rishi Kapoor">Rishi Kapoor</a> in the blockbuster film <i><a href="/wiki/Laila_Majnu_(1976_film)" title="Laila Majnu (1976 film)">Laila Majnu</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-bo25y_40-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bo25y-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Rafi went on to sing many more songs for Rishi Kapoor in the subsequent hit films, including <i><a href="/wiki/Hum_Kisise_Kum_Naheen" title="Hum Kisise Kum Naheen">Hum Kisise Kum Naheen</a></i> (1977) and <i><a href="/wiki/Amar_Akbar_Anthony" title="Amar Akbar Anthony">Amar Akbar Anthony</a></i> (1977).<sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1977, he won both Filmfare Award and the National Award for the song "Kya Hua Tera Wada" from the movie <i><a href="/wiki/Hum_Kisise_Kum_Naheen" title="Hum Kisise Kum Naheen">Hum Kisise Kum Naheen</a></i>, composed by <a href="/wiki/R._D._Burman" title="R. D. Burman">R. D. Burman</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-how_fair_raju2_23-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-how_fair_raju2-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was nominated as the best singer at the Filmfare Awards for the <a href="/wiki/Qawwali" title="Qawwali">qawwali</a> "<a href="/wiki/Parda_Hai_Parda_(song)" title="Parda Hai Parda (song)">Parda Hai Parda</a>" from <i><a href="/wiki/Amar_Akbar_Anthony" title="Amar Akbar Anthony">Amar Akbar Anthony</a></i> (1977). </p><p>Rafi sang for many successful films in the late 1970s and the early 1980s many of whose hit songs were dominating the charts in the late 70s on radio programs such as <i>Vividh Bharati, Binaca Geetmala and Radio Ceylon.</i><sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Some of these include <i><a href="/wiki/Pratigya_(1975_film)" title="Pratigya (1975 film)">Pratiggya</a></i> (1975), <i><a href="/wiki/Bairaag" title="Bairaag">Bairaag</a></i> (1976), <i><a href="/wiki/Amaanat_(1977_film)" title="Amaanat (1977 film)">Amaanat</a></i> (1977), <i><a href="/wiki/Dharam_Veer_(film)" title="Dharam Veer (film)">Dharam Veer</a></i> (1977), <i><a href="/wiki/Apnapan" title="Apnapan">Apnapan</a></i> (1977), <i><a href="/wiki/Ganga_Ki_Saugand" class="mw-redirect" title="Ganga Ki Saugand">Ganga Ki Saugand</a></i> (1978), <i><a href="/wiki/Suhaag_(1979_film)" title="Suhaag (1979 film)">Suhaag</a></i> (1979), <i><a href="/wiki/Sargam_(1979_film)" title="Sargam (1979 film)">Sargam</a></i> (1979), <i><a href="/wiki/Qurbani_(1980_film)" class="mw-redirect" title="Qurbani (1980 film)">Qurbani</a></i> (1980), <i><a href="/wiki/Dostana_(1980_film)" title="Dostana (1980 film)">Dostana</a></i> (1980), <i><a href="/wiki/Karz_(film)" title="Karz (film)">Karz</a></i> (1980), <i><a href="/wiki/The_Burning_Train" title="The Burning Train">The Burning Train</a></i> (1980), <i><a href="/wiki/Abdullah_(film)" title="Abdullah (film)">Abdullah</a></i> (1980), <i><a href="/wiki/Shaan_(1980_film)" title="Shaan (1980 film)">Shaan</a></i> (1980), <i><a href="/wiki/Aasha_(1980_film)" title="Aasha (1980 film)">Aasha</a></i> (1980), <i><a href="/wiki/Aap_To_Aise_Na_The" title="Aap To Aise Na The">Aap To Aise Na The</a></i> (1980), <i><a href="/wiki/Naseeb_(1981_film)" title="Naseeb (1981 film)">Naseeb</a></i> (1981) and <i><a href="/wiki/Zamane_Ko_Dikhana_Hai" title="Zamane Ko Dikhana Hai">Zamaane Ko Dikhana Hai</a></i> (1981). In 1977, Rafi gave a performance at the Royal Albert Hall and in 1980 he performed at the Wembley conference centre. From 1970 until his death he toured around the world extensively giving concert performances to packed halls. </p><p>In December 1979, Rafi recorded six songs for the Hindi remake of Dilip Sen's Bengali superhit <i>Sorry Madam</i>; the film was never completed due to a personal tragedy in Dilip Sen's life. These songs, written by Kafeel Aazar and composed by Chitragupta, were released digitally in December 2009 by the label Silk Road under the title "The Last Songs".<sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The physical album was released only in India by Universal.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (August 2014)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Guinness_World_Records_controversy">Guinness World Records controversy</h3></div> <p>During his last years, Rafi was involved in a controversy over Lata Mangeshkar's entry in the <a href="/wiki/Guinness_Book_of_World_Records" class="mw-redirect" title="Guinness Book of World Records">Guinness Book of World Records</a>. In a letter dated 11 June 1977 to the Guinness Book of World Records, Rafi had challenged the claim that Lata Mangeshkar has recorded the highest number of songs ("not less than 25,000" according to Guinness). Rafi, according to his fans, would have sung more songs than Lata – he being the senior of the two. They estimated the number of songs sung by Rafi to be anything from 25,000 to 26,000. This prompted Rafi to write a letter, in protest, to Guinness.<sup id="cite_ref-dnaindia.com_45-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-dnaindia.com-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> After receiving a reply from Guinness, in a letter dated 20 November 1979, he wrote, "I am disappointed that my request for a reassessment vis-a-vis Ms Mangeshkar's reported world record has gone unheeded."<sup id="cite_ref-zeenews_soulful_30-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-zeenews_soulful-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In an interview to BBC recorded in November 1977, Rafi claimed to have sung 25,000 to 26,000 songs till then.<sup id="cite_ref-Rafi001_26-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Rafi001-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>After Rafi's death, in its 1984 edition, the Guinness Book of World Records gave Lata Mangeshkar's name for the "Most Recordings" and stated, "Mohammad Rafi (d 1 August 1980)  [<i><a href="/wiki/Sic" title="Sic">sic</a></i>] claimed to have recorded 28,000 songs in 11 Indian languages between 1944 and April 1980."<sup id="cite_ref-how_fair_raju7_46-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-how_fair_raju7-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Guinness Book entries for both Rafi and Lata were eventually deleted in 1991. In 2011, Lata's sister <a href="/wiki/Asha_Bhosle" title="Asha Bhosle">Asha Bhosle</a> was given the title.<sup id="cite_ref-newrec_47-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-newrec-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><i>Mohammed Rafi – Golden Voice of the Silver Screen</i>, a 2015 book by Shahid Rafi and Sujata Dev, states that according to "industry sources", Rafi sang 4,425 Hindi film songs, 310 non-Hindi film songs, and 328 non-film songs between 1945 and 1980.<sup id="cite_ref-dnaindia.com_45-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-dnaindia.com-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A 2015 <i><a href="/wiki/Malayala_Manorama" title="Malayala Manorama">Manorama Online</a></i> article states that "researchers" have found 7,405 songs sung by Rafi.<sup id="cite_ref-48" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Among the prominent leading actors of his time, Rafi sung 190 songs for <a href="/wiki/Shammi_Kapoor" title="Shammi Kapoor">Shammi Kapoor</a>, 155 for <a href="/wiki/Johnny_Walker_(actor)" title="Johnny Walker (actor)">Johnny Walker</a>, 129 for <a href="/wiki/Shashi_Kapoor" title="Shashi Kapoor">Shashi Kapoor</a>, 114 for <a href="/wiki/Dharmendra" title="Dharmendra">Dharmendra</a>, 100 for <a href="/wiki/Dev_Anand" title="Dev Anand">Dev Anand</a> and 77 for <a href="/wiki/Dilip_Kumar" title="Dilip Kumar">Dilip Kumar</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-49" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Death">Death</h2></div> <p>Mohammed Rafi died at 10:25 pm on 31 July 1980, following a massive heart attack, aged 55.<sup id="cite_ref-50" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The last song sung by Rafi was for the movie <i>Aas Paas</i>, with music by Laxmikant-Pyarelal. One source says it was "Shaam Phir Kyun Udaas Hai Dost/Tu Kahin Aas Paas Hai Dost", recorded just hours before his death.<sup id="cite_ref-zeenews_soulful_30-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-zeenews_soulful-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-51" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-52" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Another source says that the last song he sang was "Shehar mein charcha hai", from the same film.<sup id="cite_ref-53" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-53"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Rafi was buried at the <a href="/wiki/Juhu" title="Juhu">Juhu</a> Muslim cemetery and his burial was one of the largest funeral processions in India as over 10,000 people attended his burial.<sup id="cite_ref-54" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-54"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The government of India announced a two-day public mourning in his honour.<sup id="cite_ref-zeenews_soulful_30-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-zeenews_soulful-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2010, Rafi's tomb along with many film industry artists such as <a href="/wiki/Madhubala" title="Madhubala">Madhubala</a>, was demolished to make space for new burials. Fans of Mohammed Rafi, who visit his tomb twice a year to mark his birth and death anniversaries, use the coconut tree that is nearest to his grave as a marker.<sup id="cite_ref-55" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-55"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Legacy">Legacy</h2></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Mohammed_Rafi_2016_stamp_of_India.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/23/Mohammed_Rafi_2016_stamp_of_India.jpg/220px-Mohammed_Rafi_2016_stamp_of_India.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="296" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/23/Mohammed_Rafi_2016_stamp_of_India.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="259" data-file-height="349" /></a><figcaption>Rafi on a 2016 stamp of India</figcaption></figure> <p>Rafi's style of singing influenced singers like <a href="/wiki/Kavita_Krishnamurti" title="Kavita Krishnamurti">Kavita Krishnamurti</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mahendra_Kapoor" title="Mahendra Kapoor">Mahendra Kapoor</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mohammed_Aziz" title="Mohammed Aziz">Mohammed Aziz</a>, <a href="/wiki/Shabbir_Kumar" title="Shabbir Kumar">Shabbir Kumar</a>, <a href="/wiki/Udit_Narayan" title="Udit Narayan">Udit Narayan</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sonu_Nigam" title="Sonu Nigam">Sonu Nigam</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-56" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-56"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and <a href="/wiki/S._P._Balasubrahmanyam" title="S. P. Balasubrahmanyam">S. P. Balasubrahmanyam</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-57" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-57"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-58" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-58"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>58<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Anwar_(singer)" title="Anwar (singer)">Anwar</a> also imitated Rafi's voice. </p><p>On 22 September 2007, a shrine to Rafi designed by artist Tasawar Bashir was unveiled on Fazeley Street, <a href="/wiki/Birmingham" title="Birmingham">Birmingham</a>, UK. Bashir is hoping that Rafi will attain sainthood as a result.<sup id="cite_ref-59" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-59"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-60" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-60"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>60<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Padma Shri Mohammed Rafi Chowk in the <a href="/wiki/Bandra" title="Bandra">Bandra</a> suburbs of <a href="/wiki/Mumbai" title="Mumbai">Mumbai</a> and Pune (extending MG Road) is named after Rafi.<sup id="cite_ref-how_fair_raju6_61-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-how_fair_raju6-61"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>61<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the summer of 2008, the <a href="/wiki/City_of_Birmingham_Symphony_Orchestra" title="City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra">City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra</a> released a double CD titled <i>Rafi Resurrected,</i> comprising 16 songs by Rafi. Bollywood playback singer <a href="/wiki/Sonu_Nigam" title="Sonu Nigam">Sonu Nigam</a> provided the vocals for this project and toured with the CBSO in July 2008 at venues including the <a href="/wiki/English_National_Opera" title="English National Opera">English National Opera</a> in London, Manchester's <a href="/wiki/Apollo_Theatre" title="Apollo Theatre">Apollo Theatre</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Symphony_Hall,_Birmingham" title="Symphony Hall, Birmingham">Symphony Hall</a>, Birmingham.<sup id="cite_ref-62" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-62"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>62<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>There have been appeals<sup id="cite_ref-63" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-63"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>63<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> to the <a href="/wiki/Government_of_India" title="Government of India">Government of India</a> to honour the singer, posthumously, with the <a href="/wiki/Bharat_Ratna" title="Bharat Ratna">Bharat Ratna</a> (India's Highest Civilian Award). </p><p>In June 2010, Rafi, along with Mangeshkar, was voted the most popular playback singer in the poll, conducted by <i><a href="/wiki/Outlook_(Indian_magazine)" title="Outlook (Indian magazine)">Outlook</a></i> magazine.<sup id="cite_ref-64" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-64"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>64<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The same poll voted "Man re, tu kahe na dheer dhare" (<i>Chitralekha</i>, 1964), sung by Rafi, as the No. 1 song.<sup id="cite_ref-65" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-65"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>65<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Three songs were tied for the No. 2 spot; two were sung by Rafi. The songs were "Tere mere sapne ab ek rang hain" (<i>Guide</i>, 1965) and "Din dhal jaye, hai raat na jaye" (<i>Guide</i>, 1965). The jury included people in the Indian music industry.<sup id="cite_ref-66" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-66"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>66<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2015, the UK-based newspaper <i><a href="/wiki/Eastern_Eye" title="Eastern Eye">Eastern Eye</a></i> placed Rafi third in their "Greatest 20 Bollywood Playback Singers" list.<sup id="cite_ref-67" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-67"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>67<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>An official biography was written on Rafi's life by Sujata Dev titled <i>Mohammed Rafi – Golden Voice of the Silver Screen</i> launched on his 91st birthday.<sup id="cite_ref-68" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-68"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>68<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> As well as an award winning documentary titled <i>Dastaan-E-Rafi</i> directed by Rajni Acharya and Vinay Patel (which took 5 years to make) was released to commemorate his 92nd birthday which was later released on DVD. It featured over 60 interviews of various Bollywood personas and closely recalled his story through his songs and the personal recounts.<sup id="cite_ref-69" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-69"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>69<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-70" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-70"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>70<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Many biographies and documentaries continue to be written and made on him.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (December 2017)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Lata_Mangeshkar" title="Lata Mangeshkar">Lata Mangeshkar</a>, his contemporary, has said that "Rafi bhaiya was not only India's greatest playback singer but also a wonderful person" and that "he was one singer whose vocal range could outclass any other singer, whether it was me, Asha, Mannada or Kishore bhaiya".<sup id="cite_ref-thehindu.com_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-thehindu.com-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>When producer-director Manmohan Desai (who was a big fan of Rafi) and used him in numerous hit films, was asked to describe the voice of Rafi he remarked that "If anyone has the voice of god, it is Mohammed Rafi".<sup id="cite_ref-71" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-71"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>71<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Annually his birth and death anniversaries inspire several thousand musical tributes on stage, radio and television.<sup id="cite_ref-72" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-72"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>72<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-73" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-73"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>73<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Rafi's popularity today spans across the Indian subcontinent, having a reach to Indian communities in Singapore and Malaysia.<sup id="cite_ref-74" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-74"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>74<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-75" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-75"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>75<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-76" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-76"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>76<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Today, Rafi's popular songs continue to be remixed or recreated.<sup id="cite_ref-77" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-77"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>77<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Rafi's <i>Baharon Phool Barsao</i> was voted the most popular Hindi song in a BBC Asia Network poll commemorating 100 years of Hindi Cinema.<sup id="cite_ref-78" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-78"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>78<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In a CNN-IBN survey in 2013, he was voted the greatest voice of Hindi Cinema.<sup id="cite_ref-79" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-79"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>79<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2001, Rafi was named as the "best singer of the millennium" by Hero Honda and Stardust magazine.<sup id="cite_ref-auto_80-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto-80"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>80<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="In_popular_culture">In popular culture</h2></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Mohammed_Rafi_Academy" title="Mohammed Rafi Academy">Mohammed Rafi Academy</a> was launched in Mumbai on 31 July 2010 on the 30th anniversary of the singer's death, started by his son Shahid Rafi to impart training in Indian classical and contemporary music.<sup id="cite_ref-81" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-81"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>81<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-82" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-82"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>82<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>After his death, numerous <a href="/wiki/Bollywood" class="mw-redirect" title="Bollywood">Hindi movies</a> were dedicated to Rafi, including: <i>Allah Rakha</i>, <i>Mard</i>, <i>Coolie</i>, <i>Desh-Premee</i>, <i>Naseeb</i>, <i>Aas-Paas</i> and <i>Heeralal-Pannalal</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-auto_80-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto-80"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>80<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>A song in the 1990 Hindi film <i>Kroadh</i> "<i>Na Fankar Tujhsa"</i> picturised on actor Amitabh Bachchan and sung by singer Mohammed Aziz was also dedicated to the memory of Rafi.</li> <li>Rafi is one of the recording artists mentioned in the 1997 hit British <a href="/wiki/Alternative_rock" title="Alternative rock">alternative rock</a> song "<a href="/wiki/Brimful_of_Asha" title="Brimful of Asha">Brimful of Asha</a>" by <a href="/wiki/Cornershop" title="Cornershop">Cornershop</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-83" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-83"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>83<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Rafi's song from the film <i><a href="/wiki/Gumnaam" title="Gumnaam">Gumnaam</a></i> (1965), "<a href="/wiki/Jaan_Pehechan_Ho" title="Jaan Pehechan Ho">Jaan Pehechan Ho</a>", was used on the soundtrack of <i><a href="/wiki/Ghost_World_(film)" title="Ghost World (film)">Ghost World</a></i> (2001). The film opens with the lead character dancing around in her bedroom to a video of <i>Gumnaam</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-84" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-84"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>84<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The song has also been used for <a href="/wiki/Heineken" title="Heineken">Heineken</a>'s 2011 "The Date" commercial.<sup id="cite_ref-85" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-85"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>85<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Rafi was commemorated on his 93rd birth anniversary by Search Engine Google which showed a special doodle on its Indian home page for him on 24 December 2017.<sup id="cite_ref-86" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-86"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>86<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>His "Aaj Mausam Bada Beiman Hai" is featured in the 2001 film <i><a href="/wiki/Monsoon_Wedding" title="Monsoon Wedding">Monsoon Wedding</a></i>. His "Kya Mil Gaya" (<i><a href="/wiki/Sasural_(1961_film)" title="Sasural (1961 film)">Sasural</a></i>, 1961) has been used in <i><a href="/wiki/The_Guru_(2002_film)" title="The Guru (2002 film)">The Guru</a></i> (2002), where Ramu and Sharonna sing a version of the song. His song "Mera Man Tera Pyasa" (<i><a href="/wiki/Gambler_(film)" title="Gambler (film)">Gambler</a></i>, 1970) has been used as one of the soundtracks in the Jim Carrey-Kate Winslet starrer <i><a href="/wiki/Eternal_Sunshine_of_the_Spotless_Mind" title="Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind">Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind</a></i> (2004). This song is played in the background in Kate Winslet's character's home while the lead pair are having a drink (at approximately 00.11.14 runtime).<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (April 2020)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Personal_life">Personal life</h2></div> <p>Rafi married twice; his first marriage was to his cousin, Bashira Bibi, which took place in his ancestral village.<sup id="cite_ref-87" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-87"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>87<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-88" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-88"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>88<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Rediff_89-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Rediff-89"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>89<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The marriage ended when his first wife refused to live in <a href="/wiki/India" title="India">India</a> following the killing of her parents during the riots of the <a href="/wiki/Partition_of_India" title="Partition of India">Partition of India</a> and moved to <a href="/wiki/Lahore" title="Lahore">Lahore</a>, <a href="/wiki/Pakistan" title="Pakistan">Pakistan</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-90" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-90"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>90<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His second marriage was to Bilquis Bano. </p><p>Rafi had four sons and three daughters; his first son, Saeed, was from his first marriage.<sup id="cite_ref-Rediff_89-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Rediff-89"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>89<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Rafi's hobbies included playing <a href="/wiki/Badminton" title="Badminton">badminton</a>, <a href="/wiki/Carrom" title="Carrom">carrom</a>, and flying <a href="/wiki/Kite" title="Kite">kites</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-91" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-91"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>91<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was a <a href="/wiki/Teetotalism" title="Teetotalism">teetotaller</a> and abstained from smoking and he stayed away from parties in the industry.<sup id="cite_ref-92" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-92"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>92<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>According to <i>Mohammed Rafi Voice of a Nation</i>, a book authorised by Rafi's son Shahid, described him as "a gentle, and calm demeanour persona who remained humble, selfless, ego-less, devoted, God-fearing, and family-loving gentleman in his life." Rafi was noted for not sending anyone he met back empty-handed.<sup id="cite_ref-google2_31-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-google2-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He contributed to the society by helping people through his charity and notable deeds.<sup id="cite_ref-93" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-93"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>93<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Awards_and_recognition">Awards and recognition</h2></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/List_of_awards_and_nominations_received_by_Mohammed_Rafi" title="List of awards and nominations received by Mohammed Rafi">List of awards and nominations received by Mohammed Rafi</a></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Bibliography">Bibliography</h2></div> <ul><li><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite id="CITEREFRafi2012" class="citation book cs1">Rafi, Yasmin Khalid (2012). <i>Mohammed Rafi: My Abba - A Memoir</i>. <a href="/wiki/Westland_Books" title="Westland Books">Westland Books</a>. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9789381626856" title="Special:BookSources/9789381626856"><bdi>9789381626856</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Mohammed+Rafi%3A+My+Abba+-+A+Memoir&rft.pub=Westland+Books&rft.date=2012&rft.isbn=9789381626856&rft.aulast=Rafi&rft.aufirst=Yasmin+Khalid&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMohammed+Rafi" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFRafiDev2015" class="citation book cs1">Rafi, Shahid; Dev, Sujata (2015). <i>Mohammed Rafi: Golden Voice of the Silver Screen</i>. Om Books International. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9789380070971" title="Special:BookSources/9789380070971"><bdi>9789380070971</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Mohammed+Rafi%3A+Golden+Voice+of+the+Silver+Screen&rft.pub=Om+Books+International&rft.date=2015&rft.isbn=9789380070971&rft.aulast=Rafi&rft.aufirst=Shahid&rft.au=Dev%2C+Sujata&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMohammed+Rafi" class="Z3988"></span></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_songs_recorded_by_Mohammed_Rafi" title="List of songs recorded by Mohammed Rafi">List of songs recorded by Mohammed Rafi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Indian_playback_singers" title="List of Indian playback singers">List of Indian playback singers</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">"Mohd. 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D. Burman">S. D. Burman</a> <a href="/wiki/17th_National_Film_Awards" title="17th National Film Awards"><span style="font-size:85%;">(1969)</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Manna_Dey" title="Manna Dey">Manna Dey</a> <a href="/wiki/18th_National_Film_Awards" title="18th National Film Awards"><span style="font-size:85%;">(1970)</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hemant_Kumar" title="Hemant Kumar">Hemant Kumar</a> <a href="/wiki/19th_National_Film_Awards" title="19th National Film Awards"><span style="font-size:85%;">(1971)</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/K._J._Yesudas" title="K. J. Yesudas">K. J. Yesudas</a> <a href="/wiki/20th_National_Film_Awards" title="20th National Film Awards"><span style="font-size:85%;">(1972)</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/K._J._Yesudas" title="K. J. Yesudas">K. J. 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Yesudas</a> <a href="/wiki/24th_National_Film_Awards" title="24th National Film Awards"><span style="font-size:85%;">(1976)</span></a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Mohammed Rafi</a> <a href="/wiki/25th_National_Film_Awards" title="25th National Film Awards"><span style="font-size:85%;">(1977)</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shimoga_Subbanna" title="Shimoga Subbanna">Shimoga Subbanna</a> <a href="/wiki/26th_National_Film_Awards" title="26th National Film Awards"><span style="font-size:85%;">(1978)</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/S._P._Balasubrahmanyam" title="S. P. Balasubrahmanyam">S. P. Balasubrahmanyam</a> <a href="/wiki/27th_National_Film_Awards" title="27th National Film Awards"><span style="font-size:85%;">(1979)</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anup_Ghoshal" title="Anup Ghoshal">Anup Ghoshal</a> <a href="/wiki/28th_National_Film_Awards" title="28th National Film Awards"><span style="font-size:85%;">(1980)</span></a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background: #BDB76B;width:1%">1981–2000</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/S._P._Balasubrahmanyam" title="S. P. Balasubrahmanyam">S. P. Balasubrahmanyam</a> <a href="/wiki/29th_National_Film_Awards" title="29th National Film Awards"><span style="font-size:85%;">(1981)</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/K._J._Yesudas" title="K. J. Yesudas">K. J. Yesudas</a> <a href="/wiki/30th_National_Film_Awards" title="30th National Film Awards"><span style="font-size:85%;">(1982)</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/S._P._Balasubrahmanyam" title="S. P. Balasubrahmanyam">S. P. Balasubrahmanyam</a> <a href="/wiki/31st_National_Film_Awards" title="31st National Film Awards"><span style="font-size:85%;">(1983)</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bhimsen_Joshi" title="Bhimsen Joshi">Bhimsen Joshi</a> <a href="/wiki/32nd_National_Film_Awards" title="32nd National Film Awards"><span style="font-size:85%;">(1984)</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/P._Jayachandran" title="P. Jayachandran">Jayachandran</a> <a href="/wiki/33rd_National_Film_Awards" title="33rd National Film Awards"><span style="font-size:85%;">(1985)</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hemant_Kumar" title="Hemant Kumar">Hemant Kumar</a> <a href="/wiki/34th_National_Film_Awards" title="34th National Film Awards"><span style="font-size:85%;">(1986)</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/K._J._Yesudas" title="K. J. Yesudas">K. J. Yesudas</a> <a href="/wiki/35th_National_Film_Awards" title="35th National Film Awards"><span style="font-size:85%;">(1987)</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/S._P._Balasubrahmanyam" title="S. P. Balasubrahmanyam">S. P. Balasubrahmanyam</a> <a href="/wiki/36th_National_Film_Awards" title="36th National Film Awards"><span style="font-size:85%;">(1988)</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ajoy_Chakrabarty" title="Ajoy Chakrabarty">Ajoy Chakrabarty</a> <a href="/wiki/37th_National_Film_Awards" title="37th National Film Awards"><span style="font-size:85%;">(1989)</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/M._G._Sreekumar" title="M. G. Sreekumar">M. G. Sreekumar</a> <a href="/wiki/38th_National_Film_Awards" title="38th National Film Awards"><span style="font-size:85%;">(1990)</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/K._J._Yesudas" title="K. J. Yesudas">K. J. Yesudas</a> <a href="/wiki/39th_National_Film_Awards" title="39th National Film Awards"><span style="font-size:85%;">(1991)</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dr._Rajkumar" title="Dr. Rajkumar">Dr. Rajkumar</a> <a href="/wiki/40th_National_Film_Awards" title="40th National Film Awards"><span style="font-size:85%;">(1992)</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/K._J._Yesudas" title="K. J. Yesudas">K. J. Yesudas</a> <a href="/wiki/41st_National_Film_Awards" title="41st National Film Awards"><span style="font-size:85%;">(1993)</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/P._Unnikrishnan" title="P. Unnikrishnan">P. Unnikrishnan</a> <a href="/wiki/42nd_National_Film_Awards" title="42nd National Film Awards"><span style="font-size:85%;">(1994)</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/S._P._Balasubrahmanyam" title="S. P. Balasubrahmanyam">S. P. Balasubrahmanyam</a> <a href="/wiki/43rd_National_Film_Awards" title="43rd National Film Awards"><span style="font-size:85%;">(1995)</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/S._P._Balasubrahmanyam" title="S. P. Balasubrahmanyam">S. P. Balasubrahmanyam</a> <a href="/wiki/44th_National_Film_Awards" title="44th National Film Awards"><span style="font-size:85%;">(1996)</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hariharan_(singer)" title="Hariharan (singer)">Hariharan</a> <a href="/wiki/45th_National_Film_Awards" title="45th National Film Awards"><span style="font-size:85%;">(1997)</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sanjeev_Abhyankar" title="Sanjeev Abhyankar">Sanjeev Abhyankar</a> <a href="/wiki/46th_National_Film_Awards" title="46th National Film Awards"><span style="font-size:85%;">(1998)</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/M._G._Sreekumar" title="M. G. Sreekumar">M. G. Sreekumar</a> <a href="/wiki/47th_National_Film_Awards" title="47th National Film Awards"><span style="font-size:85%;">(1999)</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shankar_Mahadevan" title="Shankar Mahadevan">Shankar Mahadevan</a> <a href="/wiki/48th_National_Film_Awards" title="48th National Film Awards"><span style="font-size:85%;">(2000)</span></a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background: #BDB76B;width:1%">2001–2020</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Udit_Narayan" title="Udit Narayan">Udit Narayan</a> <a href="/wiki/49th_National_Film_Awards" title="49th National Film Awards"><span style="font-size:85%;">(2001)</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Udit_Narayan" title="Udit Narayan">Udit Narayan</a> <a href="/wiki/50th_National_Film_Awards" title="50th National Film Awards"><span style="font-size:85%;">(2002)</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sonu_Nigam" title="Sonu Nigam">Sonu Nigam</a> <a href="/wiki/51st_National_Film_Awards" title="51st National Film Awards"><span style="font-size:85%;">(2003)</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Udit_Narayan" title="Udit Narayan">Udit Narayan</a> <a href="/wiki/52nd_National_Film_Awards" title="52nd National Film Awards"><span style="font-size:85%;">(2004)</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Naresh_Iyer" title="Naresh Iyer">Naresh Iyer</a> <a href="/wiki/53rd_National_Film_Awards" title="53rd National Film Awards"><span style="font-size:85%;">(2005)</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gurdas_Maan" title="Gurdas Maan">Gurdas Maan</a> <a href="/wiki/54th_National_Film_Awards" title="54th National Film Awards"><span style="font-size:85%;">(2006)</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shankar_Mahadevan" title="Shankar Mahadevan">Shankar Mahadevan</a> <a href="/wiki/55th_National_Film_Awards" title="55th National Film Awards"><span style="font-size:85%;">(2007)</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hariharan_(singer)" title="Hariharan (singer)">Hariharan</a> <a href="/wiki/56th_National_Film_Awards" title="56th National Film Awards"><span style="font-size:85%;">(2008)</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rupam_Islam" title="Rupam Islam">Rupam Islam</a> <a href="/wiki/57th_National_Film_Awards" title="57th National Film Awards"><span style="font-size:85%;">(2009)</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Suresh_Wadkar" title="Suresh Wadkar">Suresh Wadkar</a> <a href="/wiki/58th_National_Film_Awards" title="58th National Film Awards"><span style="font-size:85%;">(2010)</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anand_Bhate" title="Anand Bhate">Anand Bhate</a> <a href="/wiki/59th_National_Film_Awards" title="59th National Film Awards"><span style="font-size:85%;">(2011)</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shankar_Mahadevan" title="Shankar Mahadevan">Shankar Mahadevan</a> <a href="/wiki/60th_National_Film_Awards" title="60th National Film Awards"><span style="font-size:85%;">(2012)</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rupankar_Bagchi" title="Rupankar Bagchi">Rupankar</a> <a href="/wiki/61st_National_Film_Awards" title="61st National Film Awards"><span style="font-size:85%;">(2013)</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sukhwinder_Singh" title="Sukhwinder Singh">Sukhwinder Singh</a> <a href="/wiki/62nd_National_Film_Awards" title="62nd National Film Awards"><span style="font-size:85%;">(2014)</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mahesh_Kale" title="Mahesh Kale">Mahesh Kale</a> <a href="/wiki/63rd_National_Film_Awards" title="63rd National Film Awards"><span style="font-size:85%;">(2015)</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sundarayyar" title="Sundarayyar">Sundarayyar</a> <a href="/wiki/64th_National_Film_Awards" title="64th National Film Awards"><span style="font-size:85%;">(2016)</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/K._J._Yesudas" title="K. J. Yesudas">K. J. Yesudas</a> <a href="/wiki/65th_National_Film_Awards" title="65th National Film Awards"><span style="font-size:85%;">(2017)</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arijit_Singh" title="Arijit Singh">Arijit Singh</a> <a href="/wiki/66th_National_Film_Awards" title="66th National Film Awards"><span style="font-size:85%;">(2018)</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/B_Praak" title="B Praak">B Praak</a> <a href="/wiki/67th_National_Film_Awards" title="67th National Film Awards"><span style="font-size:85%;">(2019)</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rahul_Deshpande" title="Rahul Deshpande">Rahul Deshpande</a> <a href="/wiki/68th_National_Film_Awards" title="68th National Film Awards"><span style="font-size:85%;">(2020)</span></a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background: #BDB76B;width:1%">2021–present</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Kaala_Bhairava" title="Kaala Bhairava">Kaala Bhairava</a> <a href="/wiki/69th_National_Film_Awards" title="69th National Film Awards"><span style="font-size:85%;">(2021)</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arijit_Singh" title="Arijit Singh">Arijit Singh</a> (<a href="/wiki/70th_National_Film_Awards" title="70th National Film Awards"><span style="font-size:85%;">2022</span></a>)</li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235"></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" aria-labelledby="Filmfare_Award_for_Best_Male_Playback_Singer158" style="padding:3px"><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible autocollapse navbox-inner" style="border-spacing:0;background:transparent;color:inherit"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2" style="background: #EEDD82"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239400231"><div class="navbar plainlinks hlist navbar-mini"><ul><li class="nv-view"><a href="/wiki/Template:Filmfare_Award_for_Best_Male_Playback_Singer" title="Template:Filmfare Award for Best Male Playback Singer"><abbr title="View this template">v</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-talk"><a href="/wiki/Template_talk:Filmfare_Award_for_Best_Male_Playback_Singer" title="Template talk:Filmfare Award for Best Male Playback Singer"><abbr title="Discuss this template">t</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-edit"><a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Template:Filmfare_Award_for_Best_Male_Playback_Singer" title="Special:EditPage/Template:Filmfare Award for Best Male Playback Singer"><abbr title="Edit this template">e</abbr></a></li></ul></div><div id="Filmfare_Award_for_Best_Male_Playback_Singer158" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em"><a href="/wiki/Filmfare_Awards" title="Filmfare Awards">Filmfare Award</a> for <a href="/wiki/Filmfare_Award_for_Best_Male_Playback_Singer" title="Filmfare Award for Best Male Playback Singer">Best Male Playback Singer</a></div></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background: #EEDD82;width:1%">1960–1980</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Mukesh_(singer)" title="Mukesh (singer)">Mukesh</a> (1960)</li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Mohammed Rafi</a> (1961)</li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Mohammed Rafi</a> (1962)</li> <li>No Award (1963)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mahendra_Kapoor" title="Mahendra Kapoor">Mahendra Kapoor</a> (1964)</li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Mohammed Rafi</a> (1965)</li> <li>No Award (1966)</li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Mohammed Rafi</a> (1967)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mahendra_Kapoor" title="Mahendra Kapoor">Mahendra Kapoor</a> (1968)</li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Mohammed Rafi</a> (1969)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kishore_Kumar" title="Kishore Kumar">Kishore Kumar</a> (1970)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mukesh_(singer)" title="Mukesh (singer)">Mukesh</a> (1971)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Manna_Dey" title="Manna Dey">Manna Dey</a> (1972)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mukesh_(singer)" title="Mukesh (singer)">Mukesh</a> (1973)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Narendra_Chanchal" title="Narendra Chanchal">Narendra Chanchal</a> (1974)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mahendra_Kapoor" title="Mahendra Kapoor">Mahendra Kapoor</a> (1975)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kishore_Kumar" title="Kishore Kumar">Kishore Kumar</a> (1976)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mukesh_(singer)" title="Mukesh (singer)">Mukesh</a> (1977)</li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Mohammed Rafi</a> (1978)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kishore_Kumar" title="Kishore Kumar">Kishore Kumar</a> (1979)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/K._J._Yesudas" title="K. J. Yesudas">K. J. Yesudas</a> (1980)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background: #EEDD82;width:1%">1981–2000</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Kishore_Kumar" title="Kishore Kumar">Kishore Kumar</a> (1981)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Amit_Kumar" title="Amit Kumar">Amit Kumar</a> (1982)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kishore_Kumar" title="Kishore Kumar">Kishore Kumar</a> (1983)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kishore_Kumar" title="Kishore Kumar">Kishore Kumar</a> (1984)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kishore_Kumar" title="Kishore Kumar">Kishore Kumar</a> (1985)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kishore_Kumar" title="Kishore Kumar">Kishore Kumar</a> (1986)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Razzie_Award_for_Worst_Original_Song&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="The Razzie Award for Worst Original Song (page does not exist)">The Razzie Award for Worst Original Song</a> (1987)</li> <li>No Award (1988)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Udit_Narayan" title="Udit Narayan">Udit Narayan</a> (1989)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/S._P._Balasubrahmanyam" title="S. P. Balasubrahmanyam">S. P. Balasubrahmanyam</a> (1990)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kumar_Sanu" title="Kumar Sanu">Kumar Sanu</a> (1991)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kumar_Sanu" title="Kumar Sanu">Kumar Sanu</a> (1992)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kumar_Sanu" title="Kumar Sanu">Kumar Sanu</a> (1993)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kumar_Sanu" title="Kumar Sanu">Kumar Sanu</a> (1994)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kumar_Sanu" title="Kumar Sanu">Kumar Sanu</a> (1995)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Udit_Narayan" title="Udit Narayan">Udit Narayan</a> (1996)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Udit_Narayan" title="Udit Narayan">Udit Narayan</a> (1997)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Abhijeet_Bhattacharya" title="Abhijeet Bhattacharya">Abhijeet</a> (1998)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sukhwinder_Singh" title="Sukhwinder Singh">Sukhwinder Singh</a> (1999)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Udit_Narayan" title="Udit Narayan">Udit Narayan</a> (2000)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background: #EEDD82;width:1%">2001-2020</th><td 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Chauhan">Mohit Chauhan</a> (2010)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rahat_Fateh_Ali_Khan" title="Rahat Fateh Ali Khan">Rahat Fateh Ali Khan</a> (2011)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mohit_Chauhan" title="Mohit Chauhan">Mohit Chauhan</a> (2012)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ayushmann_Khurrana" title="Ayushmann Khurrana">Ayushmann Khurrana</a> (2013)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arijit_Singh" title="Arijit Singh">Arijit Singh</a> (2014)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ankit_Tiwari" title="Ankit Tiwari">Ankit Tiwari</a> (2015)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arijit_Singh" title="Arijit Singh">Arijit Singh</a> (2016)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arijit_Singh" title="Arijit Singh">Arijit Singh</a> (2017)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arijit_Singh" title="Arijit Singh">Arijit Singh</a> (2018)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arijit_Singh" title="Arijit Singh">Arijit Singh</a> (2019)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arijit_Singh" title="Arijit Singh">Arijit Singh</a> (2020)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background: 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style="width:1%">1950s</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Omkarnath_Thakur" title="Omkarnath Thakur">Omkarnath Thakur</a> (1955)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sthanam_Narasimha_Rao" title="Sthanam Narasimha Rao">Sthanam Narasimha Rao</a> (1956)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sudhir_Khastgir" title="Sudhir Khastgir">Sudhir Khastgir</a> (1957)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dwaram_Venkataswamy_Naidu" title="Dwaram Venkataswamy Naidu">Dwaram Venkataswamy Naidu</a> (1957)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Debaki_Bose" title="Debaki Bose">Debaki Bose</a> (1958)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shambhu_Maharaj" title="Shambhu Maharaj">Shambhu Maharaj</a> (1958)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nargis" title="Nargis">Nargis</a> (1958)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Satyajit_Ray" title="Satyajit Ray">Satyajit Ray</a> (1958)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Devika_Rani" title="Devika Rani">Devika Rani</a> (1958)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">1960s</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/K._K._Hebbar" title="K. K. Hebbar">K. K. Hebbar</a> (1961)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bismillah_Khan" title="Bismillah Khan">Bismillah Khan</a> (1961)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Raghunath_Krishna_Phadke" title="Raghunath Krishna Phadke">Raghunath Krishna Phadke</a> (1961)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ashok_Kumar" title="Ashok Kumar">Ashok Kumar</a> (1962)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mehboob_Khan" title="Mehboob Khan">Mehboob Khan</a> (1963)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Melville_de_Mellow" title="Melville de Mellow">Melville de Mellow</a> (1963)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vinayak_Pandurang_Karmarkar" title="Vinayak Pandurang Karmarkar">Vinayak Pandurang Karmarkar</a> (1964)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Adi_Pherozeshah_Marzban" title="Adi Pherozeshah Marzban">Adi Pherozeshah Marzban</a> (1964)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/P._C._Sorcar" title="P. C. Sorcar">P. C. Sorcar</a> (1964)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Guru_Kunchu_Kurup" title="Guru Kunchu Kurup">Guru Kunchu Kurup</a> (1965)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/V._Nagayya" title="V. Nagayya">V. Nagayya</a> (1965)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ravishankar_Raval" title="Ravishankar Raval">Ravishankar Raval</a> (1965)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mrinalini_Sarabhai" title="Mrinalini Sarabhai">Mrinalini Sarabhai</a> (1965)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sivaji_Ganesan" title="Sivaji Ganesan">Sivaji Ganesan</a> (1966)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/M._F._Husain" title="M. F. Husain">M. F. Husain</a> (1966)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sumitra_Charat_Ram" title="Sumitra Charat Ram">Sumitra Charat Ram</a> (1966)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/P._Bhanumathi" title="P. Bhanumathi">P. Bhanumathi</a> (1966)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Daji_Bhatawadekar" title="Daji Bhatawadekar">Daji Bhatawadekar</a> (1967)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vasant_Desai" title="Vasant Desai">Vasant Desai</a> (1967)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Siddheshwari_Devi" title="Siddheshwari Devi">Siddheshwari Devi</a> (1967)</li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Mohammed Rafi</a> (1967)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sashadhar_Mukherjee" title="Sashadhar Mukherjee">Sashadhar Mukherjee</a> (1967)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vinjamuri_Venkata_Lakshmi_Narasimha_Rao" title="Vinjamuri Venkata Lakshmi Narasimha Rao">Vinjamuri Venkata Lakshmi Narasimha Rao</a> (1967)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/M._R._Acharekar" title="M. R. Acharekar">M. R. Acharekar</a> (1968)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Begum_Akhtar" title="Begum Akhtar">Begum Akhtar</a> (1968)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sharan_Rani_Backliwal" title="Sharan Rani Backliwal">Sharan Rani Backliwal</a> (1968)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nikhil_Banerjee" title="Nikhil Banerjee">Nikhil Banerjee</a> (1968)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sunil_Dutt" title="Sunil Dutt">Sunil Dutt</a> (1968)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Durga_Khote" title="Durga Khote">Durga Khote</a> (1968)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yamini_Krishnamurthy" title="Yamini Krishnamurthy">Yamini Krishnamurthy</a> (1968)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shankar%E2%80%93Jaikishan" title="Shankar–Jaikishan">Shankar–Jaikishan</a> (1968)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ayodhya_Prasad" title="Ayodhya Prasad">Ayodhya Prasad</a> (1968)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Akkineni_Nageswara_Rao" title="Akkineni Nageswara Rao">Akkineni Nageswara Rao</a> (1968)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/N._T._Rama_Rao" title="N. T. Rama Rao">N. T. Rama Rao</a> (1968)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Devi_Lal_Samar" title="Devi Lal Samar">Devi Lal Samar</a> (1968)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vyjayanthimala" title="Vyjayanthimala">Vyjayanthimala</a> (1968)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Khwaja_Ahmad_Abbas" title="Khwaja Ahmad Abbas">Khwaja Ahmad Abbas</a> (1969)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/David_Abraham_Cheulkar" title="David Abraham Cheulkar">David Abraham Cheulkar</a> (1969)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/N._S._Bendre" title="N. S. Bendre">N. S. Bendre</a> (1969)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/S._D._Burman" title="S. D. Burman">S. D. Burman</a> (1969)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/B._Saroja_Devi" title="B. Saroja Devi">B. Saroja Devi</a> (1969)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Indrani_Rahman" title="Indrani Rahman">Indrani Rahman</a> (1969)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Balraj_Sahni" title="Balraj Sahni">Balraj Sahni</a> (1969)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/S._N._Swamy_(artist)" title="S. N. Swamy (artist)">S. N. Swamy (artist)</a> (1969)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">1970s</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Sukumar_Bose" title="Sukumar Bose">Sukumar Bose</a> (1970)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Prem_Dhawan" title="Prem Dhawan">Prem Dhawan</a> (1970)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ratna_Fabri" title="Ratna Fabri">Ratna Fabri</a> (1970)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gemini_Ganesan" title="Gemini Ganesan">Gemini Ganesan</a> (1970)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ritwik_Ghatak" title="Ritwik Ghatak">Ritwik Ghatak</a> (1970)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Damayanti_Joshi" title="Damayanti Joshi">Damayanti Joshi</a> (1970)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Abdul_Halim_Jaffer_Khan" title="Abdul Halim Jaffer Khan">Abdul Halim Jaffer Khan</a> (1970)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karl_Jamshed_Khandalavala" title="Karl Jamshed Khandalavala">Karl Jamshed Khandalavala</a> (1970)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Madhaviah_Krishnan" title="Madhaviah Krishnan">Madhaviah Krishnan</a> (1970)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rajendra_Kumar" title="Rajendra Kumar">Rajendra Kumar</a> (1970)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pankaj_Mullick" title="Pankaj Mullick">Pankaj Mullick</a> (1970)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kalamandalam_Krishnan_Nair" title="Kalamandalam Krishnan Nair">Kalamandalam Krishnan Nair</a> (1970)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Relangi_(actor)" title="Relangi (actor)">Relangi</a> (1970)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gummadi_(actor)" title="Gummadi (actor)">Gummadi</a> (1970)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vijay_Raghav_Rao" title="Vijay Raghav Rao">Vijay Raghav Rao</a> (1970)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/V._Satyanarayana_Sarma" title="V. Satyanarayana Sarma">V. Satyanarayana Sarma</a> (1970)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maisnam_Amubi_Singh" title="Maisnam Amubi Singh">Maisnam Amubi Singh</a> (1970)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/K._B._Sundarambal" title="K. B. Sundarambal">K. B. Sundarambal</a> (1970)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Avinash_Vyas" title="Avinash Vyas">Avinash Vyas</a> (1970)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/M._Balamuralikrishna" title="M. Balamuralikrishna">M. Balamuralikrishna</a> (1971)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sankho_Chaudhuri" title="Sankho Chaudhuri">Sankho Chaudhuri</a> (1971)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Manna_Dey" title="Manna Dey">Manna Dey</a> (1971)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tripti_Mitra" title="Tripti Mitra">Tripti Mitra</a> (1971)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vazhenkada_Kunchu_Nair" title="Vazhenkada Kunchu Nair">Vazhenkada Kunchu Nair</a> (1971)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chenganoor_Raman_Pillai" title="Chenganoor Raman Pillai">Chenganoor Raman Pillai</a> (1971)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/K._N._Dandayudhapani_Pillai" title="K. N. Dandayudhapani Pillai">K. N. Dandayudhapani Pillai</a> (1971)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shanta_Rao" title="Shanta Rao">Shanta Rao</a> (1971)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ravi_(composer)" title="Ravi (composer)">Ravi</a> (1971)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sahir_Ludhianvi" title="Sahir Ludhianvi">Sahir Ludhianvi</a> (1971)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Siyaram_Tiwari_(musician)" title="Siyaram Tiwari (musician)">Siyaram Tiwari (musician)</a> (1971)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chiranjeet_Chakraborty" title="Chiranjeet Chakraborty">Chiranjeet Chakraborty</a> (1972)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Girija_Devi" title="Girija Devi">Girija Devi</a> (1972)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vasudeo_S._Gaitonde" title="Vasudeo S. Gaitonde">Vasudeo S. Gaitonde</a> (1972)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sunil_Janah" title="Sunil Janah">Sunil Janah</a> (1972)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lalgudi_Jayaraman" title="Lalgudi Jayaraman">Lalgudi Jayaraman</a> (1972)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bhimsen_Joshi" title="Bhimsen Joshi">Bhimsen Joshi</a> (1972)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mahendra_Kapoor" title="Mahendra Kapoor">Mahendra Kapoor</a> (1972)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ram_Kumar_(artist)" title="Ram Kumar (artist)">Ram Kumar (artist)</a> (1972)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hrishikesh_Mukherjee" title="Hrishikesh Mukherjee">Hrishikesh Mukherjee</a> (1972)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vazhuvoor_Ramaiah_Pillai" title="Vazhuvoor Ramaiah Pillai">Vazhuvoor Ramaiah Pillai</a> (1972)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Samta_Prasad" title="Samta Prasad">Samta Prasad</a> (1972)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/M._K._Radha" title="M. K. Radha">M. K. Radha</a> (1972)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Raghu_Rai" title="Raghu Rai">Raghu Rai</a> (1972)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Krishna_Reddy_(artist)" title="Krishna Reddy (artist)">Krishna Reddy</a> (1972)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Waheeda_Rehman" title="Waheeda Rehman">Waheeda Rehman</a> (1972)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Juthika_Roy" title="Juthika Roy">Juthika Roy</a> (1972)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Suchitra_Sen" title="Suchitra Sen">Suchitra Sen</a> (1972)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gubbi_Veeranna" title="Gubbi Veeranna">Gubbi Veeranna</a> (1972)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sitara_Devi" title="Sitara Devi">Sitara Devi</a> (1973)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/T._N._Krishnan" title="T. N. Krishnan">T. N. Krishnan</a> (1973)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kishan_Maharaj" title="Kishan Maharaj">Kishan Maharaj</a> (1973)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ramanathapuram_C._S._Murugabhoopathy" title="Ramanathapuram C. S. Murugabhoopathy">Ramanathapuram C. S. Murugabhoopathy</a> (1973)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thikkurissy_Sukumaran_Nair" title="Thikkurissy Sukumaran Nair">Thikkurissy Sukumaran Nair</a> (1973)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Uma_Sharma" title="Uma Sharma">Uma Sharma</a> (1973)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/S._G._Thakur_Singh" title="S. G. Thakur Singh">S. G. Thakur Singh</a> (1973)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kaifi_Azmi" title="Kaifi Azmi">Kaifi Azmi</a> (1974)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pushkar_Bhan" title="Pushkar Bhan">Pushkar Bhan</a> (1974)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mani_Madhava_Chakyar" title="Mani Madhava Chakyar">Mani Madhava Chakyar</a> (1974)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bindhyabasini_Devi" title="Bindhyabasini Devi">Bindhyabasini Devi</a> (1974)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Naina_Devi_(singer)" title="Naina Devi (singer)">Naina Devi</a> (1974)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Girish_Karnad" title="Girish Karnad">Girish Karnad</a> (1974)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shriram_Lagoo" title="Shriram Lagoo">Shriram Lagoo</a> (1974)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kelucharan_Mohapatra" title="Kelucharan Mohapatra">Kelucharan Mohapatra</a> (1974)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nutan" title="Nutan">Nutan</a> (1974)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/M._D._Ramanathan" title="M. D. Ramanathan">M. D. Ramanathan</a> (1974)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Som_Nath_Sadhu" title="Som Nath Sadhu">Som Nath Sadhu</a> (1974)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Emani_Sankara_Sastry" title="Emani Sankara Sastry">Emani Sankara Sastry</a> (1974)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kripal_Singh_Shekhawat" title="Kripal Singh Shekhawat">Kripal Singh Shekhawat</a> (1974)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Manik_Varma" title="Manik Varma">Manik Varma</a> (1974)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/M._S._Gopalakrishnan" title="M. S. Gopalakrishnan">M. S. Gopalakrishnan</a> (1975)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jasraj" title="Jasraj">Jasraj</a> (1975)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Amjad_Ali_Khan" title="Amjad Ali Khan">Amjad Ali Khan</a> (1975)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gopi_Krishna_(dancer)" title="Gopi Krishna (dancer)">Gopi Krishna</a> (1975)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sanjukta_Panigrahi" title="Sanjukta Panigrahi">Sanjukta Panigrahi</a> (1975)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Basavaraj_Rajguru" title="Basavaraj Rajguru">Basavaraj Rajguru</a> (1975)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kalyanam_Raghuramayya" class="mw-redirect" title="Kalyanam Raghuramayya">Kalyanam Raghuramayya</a> (1975)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/M._S._Sathyu" title="M. S. Sathyu">M. S. Sathyu</a> (1975)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/K._G._Subramanyan" title="K. G. Subramanyan">K. G. Subramanyan</a> (1975)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gitchandra_Tongbra" title="Gitchandra Tongbra">Gitchandra Tongbra</a> (1975)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/K._J._Yesudas" title="K. J. Yesudas">K. J. Yesudas</a> (1975)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shyam_Benegal" title="Shyam Benegal">Shyam Benegal</a> (1976)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Raghunath_Mohapatra" title="Raghunath Mohapatra">Raghunath Mohapatra</a> (1976)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ram_Narayan" title="Ram Narayan">Ram Narayan</a> (1976)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/K._V._Narayanaswamy" title="K. V. Narayanaswamy">K. V. Narayanaswamy</a> (1976)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/R._Nagendra_Rao" title="R. Nagendra Rao">R. Nagendra Rao</a> (1976)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/S._Somasundaram" title="S. Somasundaram">S. Somasundaram</a> (1976)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Parveen_Sultana" class="mw-redirect" title="Parveen Sultana">Parveen Sultana</a> (1976)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dhanraj_Bhagat" title="Dhanraj Bhagat">Dhanraj Bhagat</a> (1977)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bhupen_Hazarika" title="Bhupen Hazarika">Bhupen Hazarika</a> (1977)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sheik_Chinna_Moulana" title="Sheik Chinna Moulana">Sheik Chinna Moulana</a> (1977)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alla_Rakha" title="Alla Rakha">Alla Rakha</a> (1977)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jehangir_Sabavala" title="Jehangir Sabavala">Jehangir Sabavala</a> (1977)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ghulam_Rasool_Santosh" class="mw-redirect" title="Ghulam Rasool Santosh">Ghulam Rasool Santosh</a> (1977)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">1980s</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/B._V._Karanth" title="B. V. Karanth">B. V. Karanth</a> (1981)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Namagiripettai_Krishnan" title="Namagiripettai Krishnan">Namagiripettai Krishnan</a> (1981)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gambhir_Singh_Mura" title="Gambhir Singh Mura">Gambhir Singh Mura</a> (1981)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dashrath_Patel" title="Dashrath Patel">Dashrath Patel</a> (1981)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/S._H._Raza" title="S. H. Raza">S. H. Raza</a> (1981)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Padma_Subrahmanyam" title="Padma Subrahmanyam">Padma Subrahmanyam</a> (1981)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Allah_Jilai_Bai" title="Allah Jilai Bai">Allah Jilai Bai</a> (1982)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ammannur_Madhava_Chakyar" title="Ammannur Madhava Chakyar">Ammannur Madhava Chakyar</a> (1982)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jabbar_Patel" title="Jabbar Patel">Jabbar Patel</a> (1982)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Virendra_Prabhakar" title="Virendra Prabhakar">Virendra Prabhakar</a> (1982)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gautam_Vaghela" title="Gautam Vaghela">Gautam Vaghela</a> (1982)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sirkazhi_Govindarajan" title="Sirkazhi Govindarajan">Sirkazhi Govindarajan</a> (1983)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gautam_Vaghela" title="Gautam Vaghela">Gautam Vaghela</a> (1982)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sirkazhi_Govindarajan" title="Sirkazhi Govindarajan">Sirkazhi Govindarajan</a> (1983)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sharafat_Hussain_Khan" title="Sharafat Hussain Khan">Sharafat Hussain Khan</a> (1983)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nepal_Mahata" title="Nepal Mahata">Nepal Mahata</a> (1983)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Handel_Manuel" title="Handel Manuel">Handel Manuel</a> (1983)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gulam_Mohammed_Sheikh" title="Gulam Mohammed Sheikh">Gulam Mohammed Sheikh</a> (1983)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Raghubir_Singh_(photographer)" title="Raghubir Singh (photographer)">Raghubir Singh</a> (1983)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sobha_Singh_(painter)" title="Sobha Singh (painter)">Sobha Singh</a> (1983)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Habib_Tanvir" title="Habib Tanvir">Habib Tanvir</a> (1983)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ganga_Devi_(painter)" title="Ganga Devi (painter)">Ganga Devi</a> (1984)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Amitabh_Bachchan" title="Amitabh Bachchan">Amitabh Bachchan</a> (1984)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Purushottam_Das" title="Purushottam Das">Purushottam Das</a> (1984)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Adoor_Gopalakrishnan" title="Adoor Gopalakrishnan">Adoor Gopalakrishnan</a> (1984)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bhupen_Khakhar" title="Bhupen Khakhar">Bhupen Khakhar</a> (1984)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ben_Kingsley" title="Ben Kingsley">Ben Kingsley</a> (1984)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vinay_Chandra_Maudgalya" title="Vinay Chandra Maudgalya">Vinay Chandra Maudgalya</a> (1984)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roshan_Kumari" title="Roshan Kumari">Roshan Kumari</a> (1984)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mavelikara_Krishnankutty_Nair" title="Mavelikara Krishnankutty Nair">Mavelikara Krishnankutty Nair</a> (1984)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/N._Rajam" title="N. Rajam">N. Rajam</a> (1984)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Raja_and_Radha_Reddy" title="Raja and Radha Reddy">Raja and Radha Reddy</a> (1984)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nek_Chand" title="Nek Chand">Nek Chand</a> (1984)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ram_Gopal_Vijayvargiya" title="Ram Gopal Vijayvargiya">Ram Gopal Vijayvargiya</a> (1984)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shanti_Dave" title="Shanti Dave">Shanti Dave</a> (1985)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Asa_Singh_Mastana" title="Asa Singh Mastana">Asa Singh Mastana</a> (1985)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Laxman_Pai" title="Laxman Pai">Laxman Pai</a> (1985)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Smita_Patil" title="Smita Patil">Smita Patil</a> (1985)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Palghat_R._Raghu" title="Palghat R. Raghu">Palghat R. Raghu</a> (1985)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Naseeruddin_Shah" title="Naseeruddin Shah">Naseeruddin Shah</a> (1985)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shankar_Bapu_Apegaonkar" title="Shankar Bapu Apegaonkar">Shankar Bapu Apegaonkar</a> (1986)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kanika_Banerjee" title="Kanika Banerjee">Kanika Banerjee</a> (1986)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Subrata_Mitra" title="Subrata Mitra">Subrata Mitra</a> (1986)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rajkumar_Singhajit_Singh" title="Rajkumar Singhajit Singh">Rajkumar Singhajit Singh</a> (1986)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hisam-ud-din_Usta" title="Hisam-ud-din Usta">Hisam-ud-din Usta</a> (1986)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/K._Balachander" title="K. Balachander">K. Balachander</a> (1987)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kumudini_Lakhia" title="Kumudini Lakhia">Kumudini Lakhia</a> (1987)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vijaya_Mehta" title="Vijaya Mehta">Vijaya Mehta</a> (1987)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/N._Ramani" title="N. Ramani">N. Ramani</a> (1987)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aparna_Sen" title="Aparna Sen">Aparna Sen</a> (1987)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Naresh_Sohal" title="Naresh Sohal">Naresh Sohal</a> (1987)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jitendra_Abhisheki" title="Jitendra Abhisheki">Jitendra Abhisheki</a> (1988)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shabana_Azmi" title="Shabana Azmi">Shabana Azmi</a> (1988)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Teejan_Bai" title="Teejan Bai">Teejan Bai</a> (1988)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bikash_Bhattacharjee" title="Bikash Bhattacharjee">Bikash Bhattacharjee</a> (1988)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zakir_Hussain_(musician)" title="Zakir Hussain (musician)">Zakir Hussain</a> (1988)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chindodi_Leela" title="Chindodi Leela">Chindodi Leela</a> (1988)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sudharani_Raghupathy" title="Sudharani Raghupathy">Sudharani Raghupathy</a> (1988)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sudarshan_Sahoo" title="Sudarshan Sahoo">Sudarshan Sahoo</a> (1988)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kudrat_Singh" title="Kudrat Singh">Kudrat Singh</a> (1988)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Umayalpuram_K._Sivaraman" title="Umayalpuram K. Sivaraman">Umayalpuram K. Sivaraman</a> (1988)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jitendra_Abhisheki" title="Jitendra Abhisheki">Jitendra Abhisheki</a> (1988)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Adyar_K._Lakshman" title="Adyar K. Lakshman">Adyar K. Lakshman</a> (1989)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Haku_Shah" title="Haku Shah">Haku Shah</a> (1989)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/L._Subramaniam" title="L. Subramaniam">L. Subramaniam</a> (1989)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ratan_Thiyam" title="Ratan Thiyam">Ratan Thiyam</a> (1989)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Upendra_Trivedi" title="Upendra Trivedi">Upendra Trivedi</a> (1989)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">1990s</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Mohan_Agashe" title="Mohan Agashe">Mohan Agashe</a> (1990)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/G._Aravindan" title="G. Aravindan">G. Aravindan</a> (1990)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Prabha_Atre" title="Prabha Atre">Prabha Atre</a> (1990)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Asgari_Bai" title="Asgari Bai">Asgari Bai</a> (1990)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gulab_Bai" title="Gulab Bai">Gulab Bai</a> (1990)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Balwantrai_Bhatt" title="Balwantrai Bhatt">Balwantrai Bhatt</a> (1990)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Diwaliben_Bhil" title="Diwaliben Bhil">Diwaliben Bhil</a> (1990)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Raj_Bisaria" title="Raj Bisaria">Raj Bisaria</a> (1990)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/S._M._Ganapathy" title="S. M. Ganapathy">S. M. Ganapathy</a> (1990)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kamal_Haasan" title="Kamal Haasan">Kamal Haasan</a> (1990)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bishamber_Khanna" title="Bishamber Khanna">Bishamber Khanna</a> (1990)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Krishen_Khanna" title="Krishen Khanna">Krishen Khanna</a> (1990)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Allu_Ramalingaiah" title="Allu Ramalingaiah">Allu Ramalingaiah</a> (1990)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tarun_Majumdar" title="Tarun Majumdar">Tarun Majumdar</a> (1990)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Madhavi_Mudgal" title="Madhavi Mudgal">Madhavi Mudgal</a> (1990)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Om_Puri" title="Om Puri">Om Puri</a> (1990)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kanak_Rele" title="Kanak Rele">Kanak Rele</a> (1990)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Leela_Samson" title="Leela Samson">Leela Samson</a> (1990)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maharajapuram_Santhanam" title="Maharajapuram Santhanam">Maharajapuram Santhanam</a> (1990)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kapila_Vatsyayan" title="Kapila Vatsyayan">Kapila Vatsyayan</a> (1990)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ranbir_Singh_Bisht" title="Ranbir Singh Bisht">Ranbir Singh Bisht</a> (1991)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bharat_Gopy" title="Bharat Gopy">Bharat Gopy</a> (1991)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ghulam_Mustafa_Khan_(singer)" title="Ghulam Mustafa Khan (singer)">Ghulam Mustafa Khan</a> (1991)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hafeez_Ahmed_Khan" title="Hafeez Ahmed Khan">Hafeez Ahmed Khan</a> (1991)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shanno_Khurana" title="Shanno Khurana">Shanno Khurana</a> (1991)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pratima_Barua_Pandey" title="Pratima Barua Pandey">Pratima Barua Pandey</a> (1991)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Manu_Parekh" title="Manu Parekh">Manu Parekh</a> (1991)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shivkumar_Sharma" title="Shivkumar Sharma">Shivkumar Sharma</a> (1991)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gurcharan_Singh_(painter)" title="Gurcharan Singh (painter)">Gurcharan Singh (painter)</a> (1991)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sharda_Sinha" title="Sharda Sinha">Sharda Sinha</a> (1991)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alarmel_Valli" title="Alarmel Valli">Alarmel Valli</a> (1991)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jaya_Bachchan" title="Jaya Bachchan">Jaya Bachchan</a> (1992)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pankaj_Charan_Das" title="Pankaj Charan Das">Pankaj Charan Das</a> (1992)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Biren_De" title="Biren De">Biren De</a> (1992)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Srirangam_Gopalaratnam" title="Srirangam Gopalaratnam">Srirangam Gopalaratnam</a> (1992)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sabri_Khan" title="Sabri Khan">Sabri Khan</a> (1992)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sunita_Kohli" title="Sunita Kohli">Sunita Kohli</a> (1992)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Madurai_N._Krishnan" title="Madurai N. Krishnan">Madurai N. Krishnan</a> (1992)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Manoj_Kumar" title="Manoj Kumar">Manoj Kumar</a> (1992)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Meera_Mukherjee" title="Meera Mukherjee">Meera Mukherjee</a> (1992)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Asha_Parekh" title="Asha Parekh">Asha Parekh</a> (1992)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nataraja_Ramakrishna" title="Nataraja Ramakrishna">Nataraja Ramakrishna</a> (1992)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bhagaban_Sahu" title="Bhagaban Sahu">Bhagaban Sahu</a> (1992)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anandji_Virji_Shah" title="Anandji Virji Shah">Anandji Virji Shah</a> (1992)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kalyanji_Virji_Shah" title="Kalyanji Virji Shah">Kalyanji Virji Shah</a> (<a href="/wiki/Kalyanji-Anandji" class="mw-redirect" title="Kalyanji-Anandji">Kalyanji-Anandji</a>) (1992)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sundari_K._Shridharani" title="Sundari K. Shridharani">Sundari K. Shridharani</a> (1992)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tapan_Sinha" title="Tapan Sinha">Tapan Sinha</a> (1992)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Muthiah_Sthapati" title="Muthiah Sthapati">Muthiah Sthapati</a> (1992)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/K._Viswanath" title="K. Viswanath">K. Viswanath</a> (1992)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chitra_Visweswaran" title="Chitra Visweswaran">Chitra Visweswaran</a> (1992)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dipali_Barthakur" title="Dipali Barthakur">Dipali Barthakur</a> (1998)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mammootty" title="Mammootty">Mammootty</a> (1998)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kunja_Bihari_Meher" title="Kunja Bihari Meher">Kunja Bihari Meher</a> (1998)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Krishnarao_Sable" title="Krishnarao Sable">Krishnarao Sable</a> (1998)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zohra_Sehgal" title="Zohra Sehgal">Zohra Sehgal</a> (1998)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/K._Ibomcha_Sharma" title="K. Ibomcha Sharma">K. Ibomcha Sharma</a> (1998)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/U._Srinivas" title="U. Srinivas">U. Srinivas</a> (1998)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Javed_Akhtar" title="Javed Akhtar">Javed Akhtar</a> (1999)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Saryu_Doshi" title="Saryu Doshi">Saryu Doshi</a> (1999)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sulochana_Latkar" title="Sulochana Latkar">Sulochana Latkar</a> (1999)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sumati_Mutatkar" title="Sumati Mutatkar">Sumati Mutatkar</a> (1999)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shobha_Deepak_Singh" title="Shobha Deepak Singh">Shobha Deepak Singh</a> (1999)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jagmohan_Sursagar" title="Jagmohan Sursagar">Jagmohan Sursagar</a> (1999)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ram_V._Sutar" title="Ram V. Sutar">Ram V. Sutar</a> (1999)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">2000s</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Kanhai_Chitrakar" title="Kanhai Chitrakar">Kanhai Chitrakar</a> (2000)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shekhar_Kapur" title="Shekhar Kapur">Shekhar Kapur</a> (2000)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hema_Malini" title="Hema Malini">Hema Malini</a> (2000)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anjolie_Ela_Menon" title="Anjolie Ela Menon">Anjolie Ela Menon</a> (2000)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shubha_Mudgal" title="Shubha Mudgal">Shubha Mudgal</a> (2000)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alyque_Padamsee" title="Alyque Padamsee">Alyque Padamsee</a> (2000)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/A._R._Rahman" title="A. R. Rahman">A. R. Rahman</a> (2000)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ramanand_Sagar" title="Ramanand Sagar">Ramanand Sagar</a> (2000)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/S._P._Balasubrahmanyam" title="S. P. Balasubrahmanyam">S. P. Balasubrahmanyam</a> (2001)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aamir_Raza_Husain" title="Aamir Raza Husain">Aamir Raza Husain</a> (2001)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Padmaja_Phenany_Joglekar" title="Padmaja Phenany Joglekar">Padmaja Phenany Joglekar</a> (2001)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mohammed_Tayab_Khan" title="Mohammed Tayab Khan">Mohammed Tayab Khan</a> (2001)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sunil_Kothari" title="Sunil Kothari">Sunil Kothari</a> (2001)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nerella_Venu_Madhav" title="Nerella Venu Madhav">Nerella Venu Madhav</a> (2001)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mohanlal" title="Mohanlal">Mohanlal</a> (2001)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shobha_Naidu" class="mw-redirect" title="Shobha Naidu">Shobha Naidu</a> (2001)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/D._V._S._Raju" title="D. V. S. Raju">D. V. S. Raju</a> (2001)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Avadhanam_Sita_Raman" title="Avadhanam Sita Raman">Avadhanam Sita Raman</a> (2001)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Siramdasu_Venkata_Rama_Rao" title="Siramdasu Venkata Rama Rao">Siramdasu Venkata Rama Rao</a> (2001)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thota_Tharani" title="Thota Tharani">Thota Tharani</a> (2001)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/W._D._Amaradeva" title="W. D. Amaradeva">W. D. Amaradeva</a> (2002)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Raj_Begum" title="Raj Begum">Raj Begum</a> (2002)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vishwa_Mohan_Bhatt" title="Vishwa Mohan Bhatt">Vishwa Mohan Bhatt</a> (2002)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pushpa_Bhuyan" title="Pushpa Bhuyan">Pushpa Bhuyan</a> (2002)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rajan_Devadas" title="Rajan Devadas">Rajan Devadas</a> (2002)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Darshana_Jhaveri" title="Darshana Jhaveri">Darshana Jhaveri</a> (2002)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Abdul_Latif_Khan" title="Abdul Latif Khan">Abdul Latif Khan</a> (2002)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mani_Krishnaswami" title="Mani Krishnaswami">Mani Krishnaswami</a> (2002)</li> <li>Fazal Mohammad (2002)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Manorama_(Tamil_actress)" title="Manorama (Tamil actress)">Manorama</a> (2002)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Govind_Nihalani" title="Govind Nihalani">Govind Nihalani</a> (2002)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mani_Ratnam" title="Mani Ratnam">Mani Ratnam</a> (2002)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kiran_Segal" title="Kiran Segal">Kiran Segal</a> (2002)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Navaneetham_Padmanabha_Seshadri" title="Navaneetham Padmanabha Seshadri">Navaneetham Padmanabha Seshadri</a> (2002)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Saroja_Vaidyanathan" title="Saroja Vaidyanathan">Saroja Vaidyanathan</a> (2002)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/T._H._Vinayakram" title="T. H. Vinayakram">T. H. Vinayakram</a> (2002)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jahnu_Barua" title="Jahnu Barua">Jahnu Barua</a> (2003)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Danny_Denzongpa" title="Danny Denzongpa">Danny Denzongpa</a> (2003)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kshetrimayum_Ongbi_Thouranisabi_Devi" title="Kshetrimayum Ongbi Thouranisabi Devi">Kshetrimayum Ongbi Thouranisabi Devi</a> (2003)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rita_Ganguly" title="Rita Ganguly">Rita Ganguly</a> (2003)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ranjana_Gauhar" title="Ranjana Gauhar">Ranjana Gauhar</a> (2003)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sadashiv_Vasantrao_Gorakshkar" title="Sadashiv Vasantrao Gorakshkar">Sadashiv Vasantrao Gorakshkar</a> (2003)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rakhee_Gulzar" title="Rakhee Gulzar">Rakhee Gulzar</a> (2003)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nemi_Chandra_Jain" title="Nemi Chandra Jain">Nemi Chandra Jain</a> (2003)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/O._P._Jain" title="O. P. Jain">O. P. Jain</a> (2003)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aamir_Khan" title="Aamir Khan">Aamir Khan</a> (2003)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shafaat_Ahmed_Khan" title="Shafaat Ahmed Khan">Shafaat Ahmed Khan</a> (2003)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/T._M._Soundararajan" title="T. M. Soundararajan">T. M. Soundararajan</a> (2003)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sukumari" title="Sukumari">Sukumari</a> (2003)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Satish_Vyas_(musician)" title="Satish Vyas (musician)">Satish Vyas</a> (2003)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bharathiraja" title="Bharathiraja">Bharathiraja</a> (2004)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maguni_Charan_Das" title="Maguni Charan Das">Maguni Charan Das</a> (2004)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Manoranjan_Das" title="Manoranjan Das">Manoranjan Das</a> (2004)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/D._K._Datar" title="D. K. Datar">D. K. 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