[1][2] Produced during the Golden Age of Pakistani cinema, the song's lyrics were written by Masroor Anwar and the music composed by Sohail Rana.
Ahmed Rushdi was the playback singer, with actor Waheed Murad lip-syncing.
Following Rushdi's success, Christian bands specialising in jazz started performing at various night clubs and hotel lobbies[4] in Karachi, Hyderabad, Mumbai, Dhaka and Lahore.
The 2013 Geo TV television film Armaan, featured the song in a new version, with a few English lyrics.
Within a few days of the video being released on YouTube, it became the most-disliked video in the music show's 11-year history and raised nationwide hue and cry to the extent that Minister for Human Rights in Pakistan Shireen Mazari had to come out in media to term the remake as "horrendous".