Shabbir sang it with Shailendra

Thanks to the subject of this post, I knew that Amitabh Bachchan featured in a ‘Lambu trilogy’ of songs.

I am talking about Lambuji Tinguji, which was the third song from the 1983 film Coolie in my collection.

In fact, all of them were sung by Shabbir Kumar, whose voice reminded Manmohan Desai, the director of the film, of his favourite singer, Mohammed Rafi.

Shailendra shared Sing(h)ing credits with him for that track.

Anand Bakshi wrote the song, which Laxmikant Shantaram Kudalkar and Pyarelal Ramprasad Sharma composed.

It was half-a-dozen minutes and three seconds long.