मैं तो तड़पूँगी

One of the eight documented songs from Nari Ghadiali's 1944 action feature Lieutenant, with lyrics by Mustafa. Its title declares the resolve of one who will pine in the beloved's absence — a song of female separation that complements the film's wartime parting numbers. The recording survives in catalogue form; its placement within Lieutenant is no longer documented.

A separation lament of this kind would have been set in the era's spare chamber idiom — harmonium and tabla under a slow melody, with the sarangi shadowing the voice through the passages of yearning. With no consolidated music-director credit surviving for the film, the song is preserved chiefly as a lyric-and-voice document of Lieutenant's soundtrack.