Qurbani

Awards

Song Awards:
• 1980 - Filmfare Awards - Best Female Playback Singer - Aap Jaisa Koi Meri Zindagi Mein Aaye - Nazia Hassan

Trivia

Album

• This film was inspired by the film "The Master Touch" (1972), starring Kirk Douglas. The Hindi film itself was remade in Tamil as "Viduthalai" (1986), starring Sivaji Ganesan, Rajinikanth, Vishnuvardhan and Madhavi.
• This film was released shortly after the death of Indira Gandhi's son, Sanjay Gandhi. The film opened with an almost 2-minute long eulogy to him in English in Feroz Khan's voice. In the eulogy, Feroz Khan dedicated the "proceeds of the premieres of Bangalore and Delhi to the memory of the sleeping prince".
• Shakti Kapoor landed a role in this film literally by accident! At a time when the actor was still looking for his big break, he met with an accident when his car collided with Feroz Khan's Mercedes. Shakti Kapoor introduced himself to Khan and told him that he would love to work with the filmmaker. As the crowd gathered, Khan left the scene of the accident without responding. That evening, Shakti Kapoor visited the house of his close friend, writer K.K. Shukla. Shukla was writing the script for this film at the time. He told Kapoor that Feroz Khan had been involved in a road accident with an actor from FTII, Pune and was looking for him to cast him in this film. Shakti Kapoor excitedly told Shukla that the actor was none other than him. Shukla then introduced Shakti Kapoor to Feroz Khan and the actor got one of the biggest breaks of his career thus far.[1]
• An English version of this film's music album was also released. It was titled "What A Wonder" (1980). The English version songs were sung by Sharon Prabhakar and Bashir Sheikh and the lyrics were written by Bashir Sheikh.

Song

• Aap Jaisa Koi Meri Zindagi Mein Aaye - This was composer Biddu's first Hindi film song. Portions of the song bore similarities with pop songs he had composed before - "Kung Fu Fighting" (1974), performed by Carl Douglas, and "Dance Little Lady Dance" (1976), performed by Tina Charles.[2][3][4]
• Aap Jaisa Koi Meri Zindagi Mein Aaye - This was Nazia Hassan's first recorded song. The popularity of the song resulted in record deals and she made her first album with "Disco Deewane" (1981).
• Aap Jaisa Koi Meri Zindagi Mein Aaye - Since composer Biddu wanted the song to be recorded in London, producer Feroz Khan was tasked with finding a Hindi-speaking singer in the city. Zeenat Aman recommended he check out Nazia Hassan who was the daughter of her family friends. In her audition with Biddu, Nazia sang Tina Charles' "Dance Little Lady Dance" written by Biddu himself and was okayed by him.
• Aap Jaisa Koi Meri Zindagi Mein Aaye - By winning the Filmfare Award for Best Female Playback Singer for this song, Nazia Hassan became the first non-Indian and the youngest singer ever (she was only 15 at the time) to win a Filmfare Award.
• Aap Jaisa Koi Meri Zindagi Mein Aaye - According to Feroz Khan, this was the first Hindi film song to use a 24-track recorder for multi-track recording.[5]
• Hum Tumhen Chahte Hain Aise - Lyricist Indeevar had originally written this song for the film "Anand Ashram" (1977) but filmmaker Shakti Samanta had rejected it.[6][7]
• Hum Tumhen Chahte Hain Aise - The film version of this song did not include the antara sung by Kanchan.
• Laila O Laila - This song was composed by Babla, the younger brother of Kalyanji and Anandji. It was inspired by the 1975 track "Chicano" by the Afro-Funk band Black Blood.[8][9]
• Laila O Laila - This song was recreated by Ram Sampath for the Hindi film "Raees" (2017).[10]
• Laila O Laila - According to Babla, this was the first Hindi film song to use a rotodrum. Babla himself played the instrument in this song.[11]

1. ^ Shakti Kapoor reveals how an 'accidental' meeting with Feroz Khan landed him his first movie
2. ^ Biddu profile
3. ^ Kung Fu Fighting - Carl Douglas
4. ^ Dance Little Lady Dance - Tina Charles
5. ^ I liked her voice - Feroz Khan
6. ^ Anand Ashram (1977)
7. ^ Final Destination
8. ^ Chicano - Black Blood
9. ^ Babla interview
10. ^ Laila Main Laila (Raees, 2017)
11. ^ The Rhythm King