दिल की बात सुनाऊँ पंछी

'Dil Ki Baat Sunau Panchi' is the title song of the 1944 Atre Pictures film, performed as a solo by the heroine Vanmala. The conceit of confiding 'the matter of the heart' to a bird — a stock lyrical device of the era's romantic cinema — gives the picture its name. Like the rest of C. Ramchandra's score here, the recording is rare and best preserved through gramophone-era discographies.

C. Ramchandra sets the title number in a gentle, mid-tempo melodic line suited to a single female voice, with harmonium and light percussion carrying a flute-flecked, pastoral colour appropriate to the bird imagery. It is characteristic of his restrained early-1940s manner, well before the brassy, orchestral sound of his post-Independence hits.