मैं चोर बना प्रभु तेरा

'Mai Chor Bana Prabhu Tera' is one of the nine Pandit Indra songs of Krishna Bhakta Bodana (1944), composed by Avinash Vyas and Shankar Rao Vyas. The conceit of the devotee as a 'thief' of his lord's love is a recurring bhakti trope, here fitted to the legend of Bodana whose unauthorised, heartfelt worship triumphs over temple convention.

The Vyas brothers give the confession a reflective bhajan setting — a measured melody over harmonium and tabla, its mood poised between humility and longing. Like the rest of the score, it stays in the North Indian semi-classical devotional register rather than the brisk folk or orchestral fashions of mid-1940s popular cinema.