"He told me to go bring Rafisaab back from the airport. When I reached the airport, the flight was waiting to take off. I pleaded with the authorities and finally, they relented. The plane was stopped.
"I told Rafisaab that the other singer did not turn up, and if he could come back for a day. He did not say a word. He just picked up his bag and came with me. Such was the humility of this man."
Bachchan continued in his praise for the singer: "Those days, there were no computers to iron out your voice and re-work the song. You had to sing the song again even if one musician in an orchestra of 100 played one wrong note."
In her address, Yasmin said that when he would come home from recordings, he would play the song for the family and ask nervously, 'Kaise hai? Is it okay, have I sung properly?"
Writer Salim Khan, who was supposed to release the Hindi version of the book and also speak on the occasion, did not turn up.
Photograph by: Uttam Ghosh
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