Showing posts with label Shahid Rafi. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Shahid Rafi. Show all posts
Mohammed Rafi's son Shahid in danger losing family home in Bandra
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Sunil Baghel (MUMBAI MIRROR; October 12, 2019)
Almost 40 years after Mohammed Rafi’s death, his youngest son Shahid Rafi is fighting a legal battle to retain the family home – Rafi Mansion – that the legendary singer built on Bandra’s 28th Road in the 1970s. HDFC Bank had filed a petition in the court seeking possession of Shahid’s fifth floor flat in the building, which came up in the 1980s after the bungalow in which Rafi resided was razed.The bank has claimed that Shahid inked a deal with a company, Nimbus Industries Limited, to sell the flat, and the company took a Rs 4.16-crore loan from the bank to purchase the property. After Nimbus defaulted on repayment, the bank moved the court claiming the property.
Shahid said that the flat is worth at least Rs 5 crore, even in today’s weak economic climate. He argued that he never intended to sell the property to Nimbus, and that he had entered into an agreement with the company in November 2017 in lieu of a loan for a “short period” after he suffered losses in business. He further said that he did not receive the entire amount promised to him by the company, hence the agreement wasn’t executed. Moreover, the agreement wasn’t registered with the authorities, hence it cannot be binding, he argued.
While the high court refused to grant relief to Shahid citing that the fact that a cancellation deed was executed, which meant that the sale did take place, he received a glimmer of hope at the Debt Recovery Tribunal, which granted stay in his favour on Thursday.
Shahid, who approached the tribunal after the high court allowed him to take appropriate proceedings, said that this is the sole house in his name. In the suit he filed in the high court, he said, “The flat has memories and sentiments attached thereto since Mohammed Rafi once lived in the bungalow standing in place of the existing building.”
In the Debt Recovery Tribunal where he is represented by advocates Hiren Pandya and Trupti Kapadia, he said that the agreement with Nimbus was being signed “only for finance purposes for a short term” and that he never had any plan to sell the flat. He said that he received Rs 1.95 crore, though the agreement records payment of Rs 3.16 crore. “I was asked not to deposit the cheques by Nimbus’s director,” he claimed.
Advocate Firoz Bharucha, representing HDFC Bank in the high court, said that the agreement between Shahid and Nimbus had concluded, giving the bank all the rights to attach the property.
Ghulam Ali turns narrator for documentary on Mohammed Rafi
7:36 AM
Pakistani singer shot in Delhi on Sunday; rights to 60 songs bought for the film
Sanyukta Iyer (MUMBAI MIRROR; April 25, 2016)
Documentary filmmaker and
producer Rajni Acharya began researching his ambitious feature on the
late singer-composer Mohammed Rafi in 2011. Five years later, he is ready
to roll with a film, Dastaan-e-Rafi, on the legend's life, partly based
on Sujata Dev's book, Mohammed Rafi: Golden Voice of the Silver Screen,
for which he has purchased the rights to 60 Rafi hits, including “Kya
Hua Tera Wada“, “Likhe Jo Khat Tujhe“, “Baharo Phool
Barsao“ and “Aaj Mausam Bada Beimaan Hai“. The first look will be
unveiled on Rafi's death anniversary, July 31.
“I got in touch with Rafi sahab's son, Shahid, first, and eventually spoke to all seven of his children who readily came on board. We began filming in Karachi and Lahore, and also shot in Kotla Sultan Singh, Rafi's birthplace in Punjab. I ended up with 200-hours of footage, but something was still missing,“ admits Acharya.
He then came up with the idea of getting Pakistani ghazal singer, Ghulam Ali, who belonged to the same Patiala gharana, as the narrator. After an eight-month chase, he finally agreed. “There were issues, especially after his tours in Mumbai, Pune and Delhi were cancelled. Ghulam Ali saab was supposed to perform in Gujarat last Wednesday but he was not allowed there either. I knew he was in India but only 10-15 people knew his whereabouts and he did not wish to communicate with me,“ informs Acharya, who after four long phone conversations and post sharing a list of all the members of his unit and a personal profile of himself, finally won the maestro's trust and time. “We shot a one-hour-long sequence in Delhi yesterday.“
With a docu feature-like approach, the film also has real-life footage of Khayyam, Shamshad Begum, Shammi Kapoor, Pandit Jasraj and Ravindra Jain.
“I got in touch with Rafi sahab's son, Shahid, first, and eventually spoke to all seven of his children who readily came on board. We began filming in Karachi and Lahore, and also shot in Kotla Sultan Singh, Rafi's birthplace in Punjab. I ended up with 200-hours of footage, but something was still missing,“ admits Acharya.
He then came up with the idea of getting Pakistani ghazal singer, Ghulam Ali, who belonged to the same Patiala gharana, as the narrator. After an eight-month chase, he finally agreed. “There were issues, especially after his tours in Mumbai, Pune and Delhi were cancelled. Ghulam Ali saab was supposed to perform in Gujarat last Wednesday but he was not allowed there either. I knew he was in India but only 10-15 people knew his whereabouts and he did not wish to communicate with me,“ informs Acharya, who after four long phone conversations and post sharing a list of all the members of his unit and a personal profile of himself, finally won the maestro's trust and time. “We shot a one-hour-long sequence in Delhi yesterday.“
With a docu feature-like approach, the film also has real-life footage of Khayyam, Shamshad Begum, Shammi Kapoor, Pandit Jasraj and Ravindra Jain.
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