Only Rafi’s version was included

I came across the subject of this post in a book I didn’t expect to find it in – The Devil’s Pack, written by India’s 1983 Prudential World Cup-winning fast bowler, Balvinder Singh Sandhu, who referenced a West Indian of Indian descent, who sang the song.

The original, of course, was the male version of a song from Sehra (1963)*.

It was titled Taqdeer Ka Fasana.

And it was rendered by the one and only Mohammed Rafi.

The song, which was penned by Hasrat Jaipuri, was composed by Ramlal.

(*Note: Lata Mangeshkar sang the female version.)

This duet became quite popuLaR

Bluff Master released in 1963.

With the addition to this song to my collection, there were a couple of songs from the film in it.

If they were arranged in the alphabetical order, the track in question – Husn Chal Kuchh Aisi Chaal – would be the second.

It was the only female-male duet on the soundtrack of the film.

The two people who lent it their voices were Lata Mangeshkar and Mohammed Rafi.

The song was written by Rajinder Krishan, who also penned the dialogues of the film.

It was composed by the Shah brothers, Kalyanji-Anandji.

  

Rafi didn’t just rock kal

Aaj Aur Kal released in 1963.

My collection contained just one song from the film (which I remembered out of the blue when I was compiling this playlist).

It was titled Yeh Wadiyan Yeh Fizayen.

Mohammed Rafi lent the track his voice.

And he was the right man for the job – his songs are timeless classics, and with the constant deterioration in the quality of Hindi film music over a period of four decades, it seems fair to say that the valleys and the springs have been beckoning him.

Sahir Ludhianvi wrote the Ravi composition.