Then my brother Amit walked past and (the then top comedy actor) Mehmood shouted out: 'I've got it! Dole dole dole dole!'.

'You see, Mehmood was quite fond of Amit when he was a baby and whenever he saw him, he would tickle his chin and go 'Dole dole dole dole,' just as others would say 'coochie coo' or something like that!,' Sumeet explained.

'They tried it as a catch line; it worked, and the song became a hit.'

Sumeet said his late father had shared this story with him later, as he was himself quite young at the time.

Sumeet shared a stage as a supporting artiste with Indian pop singer Sunidhi Chauhan in a whirlwind two-city South African tour last weekend.