Sunday, June 16, 2019

Rafi De(finitel)y had a ball

If the three songs from Shagird (1967) on this blog were arranged in the alphabetical order, Bade Miyan Deewane would be the first.

The track – picturised on I S Johar and Mr Mukherjee (who is tutoring him to impress women) – literally gave the listeners a great deal of Joy.

It was rendered by Manna Dey and Mohammed Rafi, but there’s no two ways about the fact that the best line of the track – which Majrooh Sultanpuri penned – was, “Yahi to maloom nahin hai”. Johar uttered it.

Laxmikant Shantaram Kudalkar and Pyarelal Ramprasad Sharma composed it.

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