A 1.5 year long Global drive to collect min 25 lakh signatures / votes online & offline recommending BHARAT RATNA award for our beloved Mohammed Rafi Sahab on his 100th Birthday (24th December 2024)
Request to register your signature below & contribute towards this noble cause.
Campaign duration: 31st July 2023 to 24th December 2024
Why Bharat Ratna award for Rafi Sahab?
- 1948 -Received a silver medal from the Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru,
on the first anniversary of the Indian Independence day - 1967 – Honored with the Padma Shri by the Government of India.
- 2001 – Honored with the “Best Singer of the Millennium” by Hero Honda
and Stardust magazine. - 2013 – Won the CNN-IBN poll for the Greatest Voice in Hindi Cinema
- 26th Dec 2017 – Rafi sahab is a an “Avataar of Gandharva” Vice president Shri Venkaiah Naidu
- 2019 – World Book of records for matchless contribution to cinema world
- 6 Film Fare awards & 1 national award
- Sang for more than 4 decades
- Sang for almost all the actors associated with Bollywood ( Big & Small)
- Worked for almost all the Music directors and Lyricist in Bollywood.
- Sang highest number of patriotic songs
- Sang more than 7500 songs in 15 Indian languages and 4 Foreign languages
- Sang in many regional languages other than Hindi and Urdu like konkani, Assamese, Bhojpuri, Odia, Bengali, Marathi, Sindhi, Kannada, Gujarati, Tamil, Telugu, Magahi, Maithili,etc.
- Apart from Indian languages, he also sang in some foreign languages, including English, Farsi, Arabic, Sinhala, Mauritian Creole, and Dutch
- Sang all types of songs like bhangra, ghazal, qawwali, romantic songs, lullaby, classical, folk song, patriotic song, playful number, bhajan and even the rare ‘rukhsati’song,
- One of the best and most loved singer in the country
- “Lata Mangeshkar, 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, Manna da or Kishore bhaiya”.”
- Only Singer in the world who is worshipped in many places in the country by his fans.
Bharat Ratna award recipient in music field:
- Smt. M.S Subbulakshmi – Carnatic classical vocalist (16 September 1916 – 11 December 2004)
Year awarded: 1998 ; State: Tamil Nadu - Pandit Ravi Shankar (7 April 1920 – 11 December 2012)
Year awarded: 1999 ; State: West Bengal - Smt. Lata Mangeshkar (28 September 1929 – 6th February 2022)
Year awarded: 2001; State: Maharashtra - Ustad Bismillah Khan – Indian Musician (shehnai vadak) (21 March 1916 – 21 August 2006)
Year awarded: 2001; State: Bihar - Pandit Bhimsen Joshi – Hindustani Classical singer (4 February 1922 – 24 January 2011)
Year awarded: 2009 ; State: Karnataka - Shri Bhupen Hazarika – Play back singer, lyricist, Poet (8 Sept 1926 – 5 November 2011)
Year awarded: 2019 ; State: Assam
Let us all Pledge to make this signature campaign a grand success and try & get BHARAT RATNA award for our beloved Mohammed Rafi sahab on his 100th Birthday.
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