How the mighty fall. And sing.
I can't begin to articulate what exactly set off the suspicion about this specific forward. It's usually a video clip of a famous person or incident with a 'moral of the story' overlaid, that is just not true as in this case.
While Vijaypat Singhania has indeed been in the news about a property dispute he's having with his son, Gautam Singhania, this specific video does not feature him and his wife. The song references the throes of isolation that Hemant Kumar so soulfully rendered for Guru Dutt's Pyaasa, and it has been paired with the imaginary isolation of the Singhanias reinforcing a fear that we all have - being abandoned by an offspring - and a moral - about how the mighty may one day fall. I also sense a certain disdain for the wealthy in the implied message of how someone who built an empire now lives in a hotel room because of a dispute with his son.
I went back to the origins of this video, looking for who may have first posted it and to see if there's any attribution to the two people singing. This was posted on YouTube as well as Vimeo by Mahera Omar, a documentary filmmaker from Pakistan. She had a few of these songs listed, rendered informally by different people, mainly featuring this gentleman. She attributes the man as her uncle, Jamshed Omar on a different video on Youtube, but on Vimeo, she attributes the two of them as Jamshed Omar and Shama Husain. I have to also mention this - she may simply be someone who sang the song with him, and they may not necessarily be a couple.
The song is no less melodious, and rendered with great feeling, that I went ahead and listened to all the videos featuring Mr. Omar. However, I wonder what Vijaypat Singhania, who vaguely resembles Jamshed Omar, has to say about musical abilities being attributed to him.
Indeed, music has no boundaries.
Listen to this old couple Vijaypat Singhania & his Wife (former Chairman Raymonds) enjoying and singing the song without music in their hotel room after they were thrown by their son, out of the empire built by them. See the chemistry between the couple. Enjoy life which is short and make it sweet. 
I went back to the origins of this video, looking for who may have first posted it and to see if there's any attribution to the two people singing. This was posted on YouTube as well as Vimeo by Mahera Omar, a documentary filmmaker from Pakistan. She had a few of these songs listed, rendered informally by different people, mainly featuring this gentleman. She attributes the man as her uncle, Jamshed Omar on a different video on Youtube, but on Vimeo, she attributes the two of them as Jamshed Omar and Shama Husain. I have to also mention this - she may simply be someone who sang the song with him, and they may not necessarily be a couple.
The song is no less melodious, and rendered with great feeling, that I went ahead and listened to all the videos featuring Mr. Omar. However, I wonder what Vijaypat Singhania, who vaguely resembles Jamshed Omar, has to say about musical abilities being attributed to him.
Indeed, music has no boundaries.
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