Another song on friendship.
Again, Majrooh Sultanpuri, Laxmikant Pyarelal, Mohammad Rafi and the film, *Dosti*. The same actor Sudhir Kumar, playing a visually handicapped person lip-syncing on screen, as he walks on the road.
Yet, the mood is entirely different from that in ‘Koi jab raah na paaye, mere sang aaye’. Here, the song is about a missing friend and Rafi Saab brings out the pain in his voice so beautifully. When his voices rises to the high notes with ‘ mithuvaaaaaaa, mere yaar’, and then slowly ebbs to ‘tujhko baar baar awaaz main na doonga’, he really melts our hearts.
This song won Rafi Saab the Filmfare Award for best Male Playback singer.
Magic of Mohammad Rafi -22