चिंता वाकी कीजिए जो अनहोनी होय

One of the nine songs from the 1941 Radio Sound Pictures social film Jawani Ka Rang, directed by Saqi. The title invokes the well-known devotional-philosophical sentiment that worry is futile over the inevitable, suggesting a moralising or reflective moment in the film. The singer, lyricist and music director for this number are not documented in accessible records.

The title is a direct reference to a doha (couplet) attributed to Kabir: "Chinta tahi kijiye jo anhoni hoye" — "Worry only about what cannot happen by itself." This sant-poetry couplet, among Kabir's most widely circulated sayings, counsels equanimity by distinguishing between the inevitable and the avoidable: what will come regardless of worry needs no worry, and what cannot happen despite worry is equally futile to fear. Incorporating a Kabir-attributed doha into a film-song title was not unusual in the 1940s — the sant tradition provided ready-made philosophical currency that resonated with audiences across regions and languages. The word "vaki" is an archaic variant of "tahi/taki" (only that, only there), giving the line a distinctly older, less commercially polished diction that anchors it in the classical sant-doha tradition rather than in the Persianate Urdu style that dominated most contemporaneous film lyrics.

This is the second confirmed song from Jawani Ka Rang (1941) in this collection, alongside the folk-desire lament "Mere Jobana Ki Aag Bujhaye Gayo Re." The juxtaposition is striking: the same Radio Sound Pictures production placed both a raw folk-desire number and a Kabir-inspired philosophical counsel in its nine-song score. This was typical of social films of the period, which routinely included songs across multiple registers — romantic, devotional, philosophical, festive — within a single soundtrack, serving multiple audience emotional needs within one production. Director Saqi and his collaborators on Jawani Ka Rang understood that a film entitled "The Colour of Youth" needed to address not just youthful exuberance but also the wisdom that comes with its passing. All credits — singer, lyricist, music director — remain undocumented for this specific track.