Rafi sang this for Kishore

Before I describe the subject of this post, it must be mentioned that film it was from was aptly titled.

Mann Mora Baawra was the only song from Raagini in my collection.

The film, which released in 1958, starred Kishore Kumar.

But he did not lend his voice to the song – it was sung by the one and only Mohammed Rafi.

Obviously, there was sound logic (pun intended) in that decision – while Kishore wasn’t classically-trained, Rafi aced that genre.

The song was written by Jan Nisar Akhtar.

And it was composed by O P Nayyar.