This was a Mukesh-Rafi duet

With the addition of the subject of this post to my collection, there are four songs from the 1958 film Phir Subah Hogi in it.

If they were arranged in the alphabetical order, Jis Pyaar Mein Yeh Haal Ho would be the third.

By the way, the next four words of the song were, “Us Pyaar Se Tauba”.

Two men lent it their voices.

One was Mukesh, and the other was Mohammed Rafi.

It was the latter’s only contribution to the soundtrack of the film.

Sahir Ludhianvi wrote the song, which was composed by Khayyam.

This song’s (Mah)mood was ghamgeen

There’s no two ways about the fact that the road to success was never smooth for Talat Mahmood.

But then there was the Footpath.

By the way, the italicised word was the title of a film that released in 1953.

The only song from that film in my collection was Shaam-E-Gham Ki Kasam.

While it couldn’t have been anything but a sad song, the song had a word that left no doubts in the minds of the listeners about its mood – it was ghamgeen.

The song was written by Majrooh Sultanpuri, and composed by Khayyam.

Rafi Saab ne akele gaaya

Mohammed Zahur Khayyam Hashmi was better known as Khayyam.

But at the beginning of the composer’s career, he adopted the pseudonym Sharmaji, which was one half of the music director jodi, the other being Varmaji (a.k.a. Rahman Varma).

One of the films for which Khayyam composed the music as Sharmaji was Biwi, which released in 1950.

The only song from the film in my collection was Akele Mein Woh Ghabrate Toh Honge.

It was written by Wali Saheb.

In congruence with the first word in its title, it was a solo – Mohammed Rafi sang it.