It was a Mukesh solo

Mukesh Chand Mathur – who went on to become Raj Kapoor’s ghost voice – was the male voice of the soundtrack of Aag.

He sang Zinda Hoon Is Tarah, which was the longest of the four songs from the film in my collection – it was four minutes and 36 seconds long.

Behzad Lucknavi wrote the song, which Ram Ganguly composed.

(*Note: As his nom de plume suggests, Lucknavi was born in Lucknow, now the capital of Uttar Pradesh, on New Year’s Day in 1900. He later migrated to Pakistan, and died in Karachi on October 10, 1974.)