Comments on: Similarity between Kishore Kumar and Amitabh Bachchan

By: aradhna kumar

aradhna kumar — Wed, 26 May 2010 00:02:46 +0000

By: Vikas Saklani

Vikas Saklani — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 21:55:21 +0000

I simply fail to understand why people like to make comparisons between these two legends. Both were extraorinary and unique. Raf Sahab’s voice was soulful and soothing to ears and well suited the songs that were sad, emotional and classical.. He had a great versatality and he has sung countless songs.. He had the ability to bring tears in eyes.. While, Kishore Da had a great energy level and developed his own style of singing. In spite of not being a trained singer, he developed such a style which is simply not possible to immitate. He also had great versatality. He sang songs for mostly of all types. Nobody could incorporate things in songs that Kishore Da used to in his songs. He was very creative. I like his style of singing and his energy level and the way he used to sing any song.. Rafi was reserved and shy. I am a huge fan of Rafi but I like Kishore Da a lot and especially because of his unique style. I believe, it is not possible for anyone to have Rafi’s voice and Kishore Da’s style. No comparison could be made between these two. Rafi Sahab’s voice sounds extemely unmatchable and good in sad songs and Kishore Da’s voice sounds unmatachable and good in energetic and fun type songs. No singer could touch these two. Both were legends and will remain legends.. Hats off to them..

By: Vidooshak

Vidooshak — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 08:21:32 +0000

Not sure I agree that Rafi sounds any less in the Karz song, but yes, I totally agree that AB and KK had an uncanny ability to adapt. More than that, they both appeared to be the director’s actor/singer and gave themselves up to the director’s vision with FULL conviction. This allowed them to look convincing even in the most anal/banal roles. When the audience sees the performer enjoying himself, they love the performance more.

Oddly enough, a similar disconnect seems to mark Shaan versus Sonu Nigam where one cannot help but sway to Shaan’s infectious excitement while performing. Sonu Nigam (a Mohd Rafi clone) is visibly into himself when performing.

By: Anil

Anil — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 20:02:02 +0000

Nobody denies that especially for rafi, sahir. but the facts are there with the song. Maine pucha is rendere3d very badly. Sd would not have tolerated it( tune is of s d burman recorded by R d burman))

By: kripal

kripal — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 02:38:40 +0000

These guys assume they R great exponents of film music.LP,Rafi Sahir, all worked beyond their capacity to render soulful music. Rafi cannot be simply compared. To savour his voice one has to know god. Thats it.

By: ANIL

ANIL — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 11:57:00 +0000

Yes u are correct! rafi could not render this perfectly alsothe orchestration is bad. Similarly rafi rendered “maine pucha chandse” rom abdulla also very badly (worse than this).
rafi also renerd very badly from maitabh ” are he oonchi oonchi bato se kisika pet bharata nahi” trying to mitate Kishore. but even kishore though renderd o sathi re very good could n’t make it his est rendition.similarly the enditionof kishore for “salame ihshq ” is not very good. but he sooden realized and imroved by superb renditions in “kab tak andhere chalate ahenge”, “manzile apni jagah ai etc”

By: sizzling india

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By: Amrit Hallan

Amrit Hallan — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 20:55:33 +0000

Thanks for the corrections

By: kcp

kcp — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 09:55:41 +0000

I agree with you that Rafi and the song were jarring to the ears ( I simply cannot stand the interlude music and ohh the full song arrangement )…Pyare bhai spoilt Laxmi’s wonderful tune. I think LP created amazing tunes ( I consider them to be one of the best in the industry ) but the orchestration took a beating in most of them.

Only correction is that Rafi sang this song only 8 years prior to Kaante Nahin – and Rafi saab was elder to Kishore by 3.8 years.

I always like to keep facts straight.