MUMBAI: A film is being made on late Bollywood playback singer Mohammed Rafi, his son Shahid Rafi said on Thursday.

On Rafi’s 91st birth anniversary where his biography ‘Mohammed Rafi - Golden Voice Of The Silver Screen’ was launched, Shahid Rafi said a film was being made on his father by a filmmaker from Kerala.

“There is a person from Kerala and he is making a film on my father. There is a very big fan... a very old person from Kerala. He was touched by my father and the director is making a film on Rafi saab with this person,” he said.

He said the producer approached him to act in the film.

“I said I have never acted but he said ‘you look like your father and we are going to make you like Rafi saab’. So, next month I am going to Kerala for the shoot,” he said.
Talking about Mohammed Rafi’s biography by Sujata Dev he said, “I am really privileged, excited and overwhelmed about the whole issue. I always wanted to write a book on my father. I wanted people to know what Rafi saab was.”

Mohammed Rafi took the Indian music industry by storm with his entry as a playback singer in 1941 and never looked back till his sudden death in 1980 at the age of 55.

On his bond with his father, Shahid Rafi said Mohammed Rafi was a family man.

“As a father, he was a great father. He never used to socialise, it was very minimal. He used to go for recordings, then he used to come back to his family. He was totally a family man. I would say I am proud and thank god that I was born in this family.”

Rafi left behind a treasure trove of immortal songs -- solos as well as duets with all top singers of his era. He sang qawwalis, ghazals, disco and pop in Hindi and various other Indian languages. Rafi also released two albums of English songs.