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One of Gulzar’s most memorable love songs owes a great deal to Mirza Ghalib, whose couplet forms the first line of the song.

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Gulzar replaced the word ‘Jee’ with ‘Dil’ and expanded the couplet with lyrical dexterity, while Madan Mohan composed it in the honeyed Raag Keervani.

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Within this near-perfect combination of poetry and melody was Bhupinder Singh’s slightly sluggish,

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languid voice that moves just a couple of seconds behind the thought.

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It was a unique expression, not the kind one had heard from male playback singers of the time.

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Singh, who moved millions with this famed ditty, among many others, died of a cardiac arrest on Monday evening.

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He was 82 and had been in hospital for the last 10 days.