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Mahendra Kapoor is no more.. One of the most powerful voices in hindi, punjabi and marathi film music passed away today due to a heart attack. He was 74. He would be remembered for putting up amazing energy levels in his songs. Considered a Rafi clone by many, he could prove he was the best when it comes to singers of Rafi-genre… Here are a few interesting nuggets on his prolific career :

*Not many people know that he was a big big fan of Rafi saab and ran away from the home to meet him as he wanted to learn music from Rafi saab and Rafi saab accepted him as a formal shishya (infact his only formal student).

* Rafi saab did train him for sometime but then asked him to learn classical music. [caption id="attachment_7044" align="alignright" width="200" caption="One of his recent Pics "]…

Some thing changes the course of direction in the life. Manoj Kumar did Shaheed and made Bhagat Singh’s character immortal on screen. No other actor could play the role of Bhagat Singh as convincingly as Manoj Kumar played in Shaheed.

Watch the Manoj Kumar as Bhagat Singh in Shaheed singing the song
Ai Watan Ai Watan humko teri kasam and recall the famous posters of Bhagat Singh.

He was at his best in Shaheed. Bhagat Singh’s role remained his best performance . Before Shaheed he was seen as another imitator of Dilip Kumar’s acting style.

Shaeed made him popular as an independent hero and Shaheed’s popularity gave him chance to make Upkar. Shaheed gave him the solid ground on which he could create the character of Bharat Kumar.

Everybody has something special in him/her and every actor also has …