This was Rafi’s pinjra song

One of the previous posts on this blog was on Hum Tere Pyar Mein, from Dil Ek Mandir.

While that track was penned by Hasrat Jaipuri and rendered by Lata Mangeshkar, the film’s soundtrack featured a male solo containing the word for cage – Yaad Na Jaaye Beete Dinon Ki.

A line of the song, which Shailendra penned, went, “Din jo pakheru hote pinjre mein main rakh leta” (which means, “If days were birds, I would keep them in a cage”).

Mohammed Rafi rendered the Shankar Jaikishan composition, which was four minutes and 23 seconds long.