Mohammad Rafi became emotional while recording this song.
Mohammed Rafi, who gave his voice to velvety songs like ‘Dil Tera Deewana Hai Sanam’, ‘Aane Se Uske’, ‘Tum Mujhe Yun Bhula Na Paoge’, has many such songs which still reside in the hearts of people. Be it expressing love or expressing the pain of the heart, Mohammed Rafi has sung songs for every situation. Rafi sahab’s songs are still liked a lot. The king of melodies Mohammed Rafi’s career spanned more than three decades, in which he sang many superhit songs. He recorded many songs, but there is one such song, while recording which Mohammed Rafi himself became so emotional that he could not hold back his tears.
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Mohammad Rafi himself started crying while recording this song and even today when someone listens to this song of his, it becomes difficult for him to hold back his tears. The song we are talking about has the lyrics ‘Babul ki duaayen leti ja’. This song from director Ram Maheshwari’s film ‘Neel Kamal’ still makes people emotional.
When Mohammed Rafi started crying in the recording room
Waheeda Rehman, Rajkumar and Manoj Kumar were in the lead roles in ‘Neel Kamal’ released in 1966. While recording the song ‘Babul Ki Duayen Leti Ja’ of this film, Mohammad Rafi started crying bitterly in the recording room itself. Seeing Mohammad Rafi crying, other people present there were shocked and started wondering what happened to Rafi Sahab suddenly, why did he start crying like this?
Mohammed Rafi’s daughter was engaged a day before the recording
Actually, Rafi sahab had got his daughter engaged just a day before the recording of this song. Rafi sahab’s daughter’s wedding was after 2 days. In such a situation, when he sang this song, he could not hold back his tears. He had mentioned this in an interview given to a magazine ‘Shama Magazine’ about 50 years ago. He had said- ‘I was recording the song, then the thought of my daughter’s upcoming wedding was on my mind. I started seeing the scene of my daughter’s wedding and became very emotional remembering those moments. I felt that my daughter was leaving me sitting in a doli and my tears started flowing. I had recorded this song in this condition.’
Even today this song makes people’s eyes moist
‘Babul Ki Duayen Leti Ja’, the farewell song of ‘Neel Kamal’ is such a song that even today when it is played at a girl’s wedding, people cannot hold back their tears. This superhit song is not only liked in that era but even today. Even today, the eyes of any girl’s mother and father become moist after listening to this song.
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