This song from the 1963 film Sehra was written by Hasrat Jaipuri, sung by Mohammad Rafi, and composed by an unsung music director Ramlal. He was a renowned Shehnai & Flute player. He came to Mumbai in 1944 and started working as an assistant with composer Ram Ganguly for Prithvi theatre. In 1948 he played Flute and Shahnai in many songs for composer Ram Ganguli in Raj Kapoor’s debut film as Director “Aag”.
This song is a twin song ( Dual Version Song) to be sung in male and female voices separately. Originally the male voice was sung by Mahendra Kapoor and was recorded but V Shantaram the producer and director was not satisfied with the song, Then Ramlal suggested that Mohammad Rafi could give justice to this song but the problem was that Rafi was always ignored by the great filmmaker, both of them never worked together. So Ramlal ji assured him that he will convince Rafi Saab to sing in the film.
Rafi Saab was able to inject tremendous pathos in this song and as usual, excels in the high notes. The prelude of the song a 28-second Shehnai piece was played by Ramlal Ji himself. In this song only. Ramlal JI in an interview told that Rafi Saab dubbed this song, the music track was kept as it is.
