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From: sm0e@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (SAMIUDDIN MOHAMMED)
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Subject: Dev Anand: The hero with 2 GOLDEN voices
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Date: 1 Apr 93 00:21:01 GMT
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Amid the recent flood of film-related articles on the music net, I thought I'd
talk about something at the film/music interface. The recent Rafi/KK
discussion is also a source of motivation.

                Dev Anand: The hero with 2 GOLDEN voices

Talk about a typical Amitabh song, and the voice of KK echoes through your
ears. Talk about Shammi Kapoor and Rafi comes to mind. Talk about RKapoor and
Mukesh starts singing in the background. Talk about Dilip Kumar and you hear
Rafi overshadowing the fading voices of Talat and Mukesh, until it is Rafi's
voice alone that you hear. Now, talk about DEV ANAND: Is that Rafi or Kishore ?

Dev Anand seems to be the only hero who had both Rafi and KK singing for him
with equal amount of success. Of course there have been instances where both
Rafi and KK have sung for other heros, but only one of them seemed to have
suited as the hero's voice. For example, Dharmendar had both Rafi and KK sing
for him, but Rafi's voice suited him better. On the other hand, while Rafi
sang for Rajesh Khanna, KK was by far the better choice for him. But what was
in Dev Anand that both Rafi's and KK's voice suited him equally ? Rafi and KK
have sung for Dev in the same movie on many occasions. And its not that Rafi
was the original voice and then KK took over (well that did happen , but it
was quite later). We had Rafi as the major singer in oldies like Tere Ghar ke
Saamne, Bombai ka Babu, Kala Bazar, but KK had quite a few old songs in movies
like Nau do Gyara, Teen Devian, Paying guest etc. I suppose it depended on the
music director, who, in most of the cases, was SD Burman. As an example let's
take Teen Devian. It had the following songs:

1)Aise to na dekho (Rafi)
2)Kahin bequayal hoke (Rafi)
3)Likha hai teri ankhon me (KK)
4)Khwab ho tum ya koi haqeeqat (KK)
5)Are yaar mere tum bhi ho ghazab (KK)
6)Oof kitni thandi hai ye rut (KK)


Wow ! What a list! Anyway if the singers for 2 and 5 were interchanged I think
we'd have 2 lousy songs on our hands. So SD did have the knack of picking the
right singer for a particular song, but the point I want to make is that
whether it was Rafi or KK, the voice suited DAnand perfectly!

Movies like Guide had all Rafi songs and just one KK song, while Jewel Thief
had all KK songs and just one Rafi song, but again all songs sounded as if it
was DAnand himself who was singing the songs. And finally why was this so ?
Why only with DAnand? Rafi and KK sang all sorts of songs for DAnand: Sad,
fast, romantic, duets........ They did so for some other heroes as well, but
it was only in DAnand's case that they suited equally well!!


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