President Ram Nath Kovind is on a three-nation tour of Czech Republic, Bulgaria and Cyprus to invite companies from European countries to manufacture in India as part of ‘Make in India’ programme. He is the fifth Indian President to visit the central European country and the first since President Shankar Dayal Sharma in 1996.
Attending a reception by the Indo-Czech Association in Prague, President Kovind and his wife witnessed soulful renditions of iconic songs sung by Kishore Kumar and Mohammad Rafi. The India-Czech Sinfonietta Orchestra played the special tunes and Czech musicians and singers won hearts with ‘Pal Pal Dil Ke Paas’ and ‘Ai Dil Hai Mushkil Jeena Yahan’.
The videos of the renditions of the Bollywood songs were uploaded on President Kovind’s Twitter handle. Many on social media loved the reception:
A novel and and great way of welcoming the honourable President of India.
— Harish Meena MP (@HC_meenaMP) September 9, 2018
Beautiful ! Very nice! Enjoyed it thoroughly!
— Yazdi Chichgar (@YazdiChichgar) September 8, 2018
Wonderful. If OP Nayyar sahab would be alive today, he must be a very happy person to see his famous song played so beautifuly in another part of Globe. Great
— saumitra yadav (@ysaumitra) September 8, 2018
Bollywood has a made mark in the world.
— Monika kaul (@Monikakaul6) September 6, 2018
Thanks for sharing such a beautiful moment. It shows how beautiful lyrics can break the language and border barriers.But the song is sung by Kishore da not by Rafi saahab.
— Sushil Kumar Yadav (@sushilky1234) September 8, 2018
With all due respect, sir, the song is “bombay” meri jaan …
— Mandar,Mandy (@mandar2404) September 7, 2018
The president also visited the sets of Brahmastra in Sofia, which stars Ranbir Kapoor and Alia Bhatt.
