Rafi made the kids (Us)happy

Kartavya released in 1979.

And my collection contains just one song from the film.

It was titled Chanda Mama Se Pyara Mera Mama.

As the song suggests, likening the moon to one’s maternal uncle is something only an innocent and imaginative kid would’ve done (then).

There were a couple of versions of this Laxmikant-Pyarelal composition – while the one in my collection was the happy version, the other was a sad version.

They were rendered by Mohammed Rafi and Usha Mangeshkar (who sang for a young girl).

Verma Malik wrote both the versions of the song.