![]() Rajni, an industry insider of over 25 years with his own media production house, who admits he had reasonable access to information and people, also recounts the other side of the making of this two-hour saga – he slogged on it for five years, starting with research, and spent 55 lakhs on it! We all have our personal favourite list of Rafi songs. He could be Shammi Kapoor, or he could be Johnny Walker… that quality is so rare in a singer,” he adds. He could be Dilip Kumar when he sang for him. And, what more can interest people than the life story of a musician, he argues. “We all begin our day listening to music,” he smiles, speaking at the 9th Bengaluru International Film Festival (Biffes). India is a music-loving country, he observes. But he was not padha-likha …his attitude inspired me,” says co-director and producer of what he calls a “lifeOgraphy” of Rafi. “Mohammed Rafi was a very different kind of a singer. ![]() ‘Do you know about the Sanjay Gandhi- Kishore Kumar incident? And how Rafi came to Kishore’s recuse?’ These are the kind of leading questions and anecdotes that we Bollywood-crazy people thrive on.Īnd it is this sort of personal journey that Rajni Acharya promises with his film on one of Bollywood’s most charismatic and versatile singers, Mohammed Rafi, titled Dastaan-e-Rafi.
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