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‘ADHM’ Dialogue Is An Insult: Mohd Rafi’s Family

Didn’t they realise who they were writing about, asks Shahid Rafi.

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Karan Johar has stirred up yet another controversy with Ae Dil Hai Mushkil. And this time the aggrieved party is legendary singer Mohd Rafi’s family. ADHM has a scene in which Anushka Sharma’s Alizeh tells Ranbir Kapoor’s Ayan: Mohd. Rafi gaate nahi rote the.”

Didn’t they realise who they were writing about, asks Shahid Rafi.
A still from ADHM.

And this has, according to Indian Express, incensed the singer’s family.

This dialogue doesn’t take the movie forward or backwards and if that is the case, what was the need to include this dialogue? And while writing this dialogue, didn’t they realise who they were talking about? Mohammed Rafi is a versatile legendary singer and I am not saying this just because he is my father. Even after 36 years of his passing away, my father’s fan following is far more than many other singers of our industry. My father was an institution. He was a very down-to-earth person. He was like a saint. People still worship him. Nobody in the industry says anything bad about my father. This dialogue is an insult. It is stupid. The man who wrote this dialogue is stupid. My father sang for Shammi Kapoor, Rajendra Kumar, Joy Mukherjee, Biswajeet Singh. From love songs to qawwali, he has sung it all. It is ridiculous to say whatever has been said in the film.
Shahid Rafi, Mohd. Rafi’s Son
Didn’t they realise who they were writing about, asks Shahid Rafi.
Legendary singer Mohd. Rafi. (Photo courtesy: Twitter/ @bollybubble)
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Didn’t they realise who they were writing about, asks Shahid Rafi.
Shahid Rafi has hit out against Karan Johar. (Photo courtesy: Twitter/ @news24tvchannel)

Shahid is also angry with Johar for allowing the dialogue in the film.

After watching this, I doubt if he (Karan) has got any sense about what he is doing. It’s an insult to my father. I am ashamed and didn’t expect this from Karan Johar. When his father Yash Joharji made Dostana in 1980, my father sang songs in his film. The song ‘Mere dost kissa yeh kya ho gaya, Suna hain ke tu bewafa ho gaya’ are apt as of today for Karan. I don’t know why he included the line in the film. Shayad shahurat sar zyada chad gaya hai. Jab shahurat zyada chadh jaata hai, log mooh pe tareef karte hai aur peeth peeche thooh thooh karte hai.

Shahid is now apparently planning to consult CBFC chief Pahlaj Nihalani, who he knows well, as to how to take action against this.

(Source: Indian Express)

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