When Viju Shah had amazing success with adapting the popular Qawwali song "Dam Mast Qalandar Mast Mast" by Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan as "Tu Cheez Badi Hai Mast", that the makers of Ravan Raaj decided, last minute, to add their own Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan inspired song to the film. They basically tried to jump on the bandwagon and capitalize on Viju Shah's hot hand.

Hence why the insertion of the song and the actors in it is random as it features the villains of the film, Paresh Rawal and Shakti Kapoor.

Mithun and Harish both had no dates during this time and thus unavailable to film for the song. (Harish, as per his character in disguise or Mithun's character expressing his feelings in the movie)
In my opinion, if either of them was the main focus of the song then it would have done much better. (also why I chose this picture of Mithun for the upload)

While it didn't hit as hard as they expected, it was an interesting addition to a pretty good album, from a pretty good film but I definitely suggest you hear the original by none other then the late great Ustad Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan.


In concert: [ Ссылка ]
A good recording: [ Ссылка ]

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