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Who sang how many Hindi film songs…

 

Human beings have a natural tendency to resort to exaggeration and hyperbole things, good or bad, to impress listeners.  No-one exemplifies this trait as glaringly as our film-wallas â€" the worst example is the collection figures of movies.

 

Such exalted worthies as Lata Mangeshkar and the late Mohd. Rafi are not exceptions  The Guinness World Records in 1974 accorded the top accolades on Lata for having 25,000 songs.  However, Rafi contested the claim as he was convinced that he had sung more songs.  The 1987 edition of the Book increased the number to 30,000 to surpass his claim.  Indians, especially movie buffs, were in 7^th seven that Lataji was the topmost singer in the world.

 

In 1988, Harmandir Singh Hamraaz of Kanpur, a researcher of film songs, had published the first five volumes of an encyclopaedia of film songs during the period 1951-80, according to which she had sung only about 4,500 till 1980 and about 5,250 till 1991 â€" even if one added her non-filmi and non-Hindi songs, the total would not have exceeded 6,000 songs till 1991.  Guinness World Records took note of this news and asked Lata in 1991 to prove her claim of having sung more than 30,000 songs.  She could not; consequently, the names of both Rafi and Lata were deleted from the book.  This was given no publicity at all by the Indian media â€" obviously we didn’t want to let our discomfiture at our monumental gaffe known to the outside world!

 

And Rafi’s tally comes 5,965 songs comprising of 4,525 Hindi film songs, plus 112 non-Hindi film songs and 328 private non-film songs.  To repudiate his claim that he sang over 28,000, here’s the little arithmetic.  28,000 songs in 36 years of his career mean that he sang an average of 777 songs each year.  Out of the 37 years, if we subtract the years between 1970-76, when Kishore Kumar emerged as the most popular singer and Rafi didn’t get many singing contracts, the average comes to about 1,000 songs a year or 2.74 songs per day.  This was humanly impossible!

PS: I am a Hindi film song buff myself, plz..

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