That year saw the release of 1942 A Love Story, a score that was to get him one of his three Filmfare awards for Best Music Director. While Parveen Sultana ended up winning the award, Kishore Kumar did not.RD Burman passed away on 4 th January 1994.
He enquired with Burman and when he found out what had happened, he refused to sing the fourth antara of the song because he did not want to jeopardise a young singer's career. After singing three antaras of the song, Rafi overheard someone at the studio talking about how the song had been previously recorded by another singer. Burman then called Rafi to record the song. Unfortunately for Gadgil, Chetan Anand changed his mind later on and asked Burman to record the song in Mohammed Rafi's voice instead. Burman had to spend a few days convincing director Chetan Anand to give the young singer a chance before he gave the go-ahead.
Khanna, without Chetan Anand's knowledge. The director did not want to associate himself with the film since he was not involved in its final cut which was apparently edited under the supervision of Rajesh Khanna and the producer, B.S.