This is a pretty long post. I had been to a Rafi fan website recently.
In one of the forums, an interesting debate started between the
capabilities of Rafi against that of a South Indian (Telugu) film
playback singer named Ghantasala. The debate slowly culminated in mud-
slinging and name-calling before supporters of Ghantasala were
requested to find another board to post about their idol's
capabilities (understandably, since it was a Rafi website). In any
case, there were quite a few interesting posts during the debate (some
of which I am quoting in this post).
My purpose in posting this here is to clarify if these posters are
talking sense when it comes to classical music or if they are just
blowing hot-air using half-baked classical music terms (I have zero
knowledge of classical music). I am posting a couple of posts of one
Mr.Khan. Can someone verify if the raags that he has mentioned
actually correspond to the songs?
The website is here (there are plenty of posts, I am just quoting the
ones that I am interested in below)
http://www.mohdrafi.com/meri-awaaz-suno/true-voice-mohd-rafi.html/comment-page-2.../#comments
