It must have been around 1950- 1951 or thereabouts when I first got a call to sing for Dada (SD Burman) for a film called Lal Kunwar. His career hadn't really taken off then. I must have sung 2-3 songs for the film. I remember one song Bach ke humse bhala. N Dutta was his music assistant then. Then there was a gap for a while before he decided to call me for Taxi Driver (1954) for Navketan for the Jeene do song. Lal Kunwar I remember going to his hotel in Marine drive to rehearse. His wife Meera Burman was there too. He would make me rehearse for 3-4 songs in one go.