A memorable incidence at the time of shooting a song " Taareef Karoon Kya Uski " from film Kashmir Ki Kali made in 1964.

A memorable incidence at the time of shooting a song  " Taareef Karoon Kya Uski " from film Kashmir Ki Kali made in 1964.

Shammi Kapoor was always being called as a game changer in Golden Era of Bollywood. He developed his own style, Films like Tumsa Nahi Dekha made in 1957 & Dil Dekhe Dekho made in 1959 have given him break through and  helped him to establish a gregarious personality. He  has done this with the  help of Play back singer Mohammed Rafi.

From Yogesh Gogwekar.

Mohammed Rafi sang nearly 200 songs for Shammi Kapoor. I do not think whether he sang so many songs to any other actors. Rafi has developed a great Chemistry with Shammi Kapoor by adapting his voice with the reflection of his unique style of acting. Shammi Kapoor justified the same by emoting, dancing and wooing with his leading ladies in perfect manner. It has been observed many times that Shammi Kapoor himself used to play an active role in creating, conceptualizing and recording his song and to understand this the song " Taareef Karoon Kya Uski " is best example.

The song " Taareef Karoon Kya Uski " is from film Kashmir Ki Kali which was made in1964 and was picturised on Shammi Kapoor and Sharmila Tagore. This song was penned by S H Bihari, music composed by O P Nayyar and song sung by Mohammed Rafi. The great job of team spirit made this song successful. The noteworthy of this song is word ‘ Tarref ‘ means praise which has vocalist expression and requires different treatment every time at the time of pronouncing. At the time of listening the song before shooting, Shammi Kapoor had a sudden thought and asked Rafi to repeat the last line “Taareef Karoon Kya Uski “seven to eight times in growing crescendo which he wanted to play in exact way in the film. Rafi agreed but O P Nayyar said no and thought it would get boring, but Shammi insisted to have it.

After seeing disappointment of Shammi, Rafi told Nayyar,” What is your problem? You are composer, I am singer but he is going to act it out. If he wants in that way, why do you object? If you do not like it, cut it later. Why reject his suggestion at this stage? He must have thought of something that neither of us knows and song was recorded as per the suggestion given by Shammi Kapoor. After it was picturized and received tremendous acknowledgment, O P Nayyar admitted his mistake and Shammi Kapoor gave full credit to Rafi as he rendered it exactly in the way actor wanted.

Later on Shammi Kapoor said that he would be incomplete without Mohammed Rafi. He further said that the Macmillan dictionary defines a playback singer as a singer who sings the songs in Indian films, which actors pretend to sing. I would like to add to this definition-a playback singer is the one who not only sings but creates the on-screen aura with his voice. The untamed voice of Rafi Sahab could go Junglee (boisterous) & then he could discipline his voice to sing "O Duniya Ke Rakhawale".

Mumbai

20.09.2019.