Dev Anand remembers Mohd Rafi on death anniversary

“’Dil pukare aa re’ from Jewel Thief and I think ‘Logo ka dil’ in ‘Man Pasand’ was his last song for me,” he added.

In a series of posts on the micro-blogging site,the 87-year-old actor-filmmaker went on to pay tribute to the celebrated playback singer who passed away on July 31,1980.

“All the songs he sang for me like this faster one ‘Jiya o jiya kuch bol do’ and many more were the best and I can’t write them all. Rafi (was a) a great soul very quiet and fine person,” he posted.

“Very few people know that Rafi recorded a song ‘Hum hi me thi na koi baat yaad na tumko aa sake tumne hame bhula diya hum na tumko bhula sake’,then this song was replaced by ‘Din dhal jaye’ in ‘Guide’ because we felt that the composition of that song was not good and Shailendra wrote it,” added Dev Anand.

The evergreen star also went on to reveal that he lent his voice to one song,from the film ‘Pyar Mohabbat’ (1966),sung by Rafi.

“I never attempted to sing but Rafi sang ‘Pyar mohabbat ke siwa ye zindagi kya zindagi’,in this song ‘Hurray Hurray’ is recorded in my voice,” he said.