DUAL VERSIONS OF THE SAME SONG BY MOHAMMED RAFI & LATA MANGESHKAR

BHEEGI RAAT (1965)

The film is a triangular love-story. Pradeep Kumar and Meena Kumari love each other but by a quirk of fate she gets engaged to Ashok Kumar. The way music director Roshan has extracted two totally different versions from these two singers conveying contrasting emotions is just incredible. In fact, Roshan  gives Rafi one of his career-best songs in –‘Dil jo na keh saka wohi raaze dil kehne ki raat aayi…’ and the kind of hurt and pain Rafi Saab manages to convey in his version is unbelievable!  On the other hand Lataji infuses a quiet dignity to her sensuous romantic version,  Majrooh’s lyrics are simply awesome.

Mohammed Rafi

Lata Mangeshkar