Tuesday, June 25, 2019

Indeed, Rafi was the king

Shammi Kapoor may have played the titular role in Prince (1969), but Badan Pe Sitare, the only track from the film on this blog, proved why Mohammed Rafi was the king of playback singing.

The song was four minutes and 48 seconds long.

Penned by Hasrat Jaipuri, the mukhda of the Shankar Jaikishan composition was inspired by the glittering costumes of the dancers at a nightclub Jaipuri and Jaikishan visited in Paris in the 1960s.

A revamped version of the track – credited to Amit Trivedi – was used in Fanney Khan (2018). Sonu Nigam rendered it.

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