Rag's collection also boasts of a song edited out of Raj Kapoor's Mera Naam Joker. Many of Mukesh's songs and the films in which he sung, like Paisa Ya Jindagi, Mailthili and Society were never released, and I have a lot of such songs," he claims. The film was never released, nor were the records of the songs, but I have the two songs.
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Mukesh had also sung two songs for Ravindra Jain's first movie Lorie. I have the song sung by Mukesh and it is the best of the three versions. It was written by Gulzar and it is the same song, which later Asha Bhosale sang under R D Burman's music direction and Jagjit Singh sang as a gazal 'Sham se aankh main namee namee si hain'. The movie never took off, but the song was recorded. For example, there was a composition of Salil Chaudhuri for a movie called Mitti Ka Tel. "Since I have been a fan of Mukesh, I have even those numbers whose records (gramophone records) were not made, since the films never took off. His collection contains unreleased songs of Lata Mangeshkar, Asha Bhosale, Mohammad Rafi and Talat Mehmood. So many films were grounded after announcement, as the producer could not arrange funds or distributors refused to take the film to the theatres," he adds. "Song recording is the earliest part in any film, which is the trend even today. It could not find distributor after it was made. There are a few songs that I want, but they are just not available." Gradually, it became an obsession which grew over the years. The articles published in these magazines helped me keep a tab on recordings happening in studios. I even started reading magazines like Madhuri and Filmfare, which gave elaborate information about the film industry. I started listening to songs and started collecting. No one in my family then was even remotely connected with songs or had even seen a film magazine. "I got interested in songs when I was studying in class X.
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It later turned into a hobby and soon assumed the shape of an obsession which continued through his professional life. Everything worked through friendship with other collectors and exchange of songs with them."
It was a difficult task and money was not involved in it. "I have been collecting songs over these years and right now I have 2,000 cassettes which contain some rare gems. But I am not aware of any other collector," he says. "I may not be the only person to have such a collection. Rag, a 1990 batch IAS officer, is on deputation as the director of FTII, the premier filmmaking institute in the country. The director of Pune-based Film and Television Institute of India, who authored a book on music directors, has a collection of about 500 unreleased songs sung by Bollywood's greatest singers.
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