मेरा बलमा बाँधे तलवार

'Mera Balma Bandhe Talwar' is one of the nine songs of Krishna Bhakta Bodana (1944), written by Pandit Indra and composed by Avinash Vyas and Shankar Rao Vyas. Its martial-romantic image of a beloved buckling on his sword gives the soundtrack a lighter, folk-toned counterpoint to its devotional bhajans.

Here the Vyas brothers loosen the devotional restraint of the rest of the score for a more rhythmic, folk-coloured treatment — a buoyant melody suited to its spirited subject, still carried on the period's standard harmonium-and-tabla palette. The female voicing and lighter mood set it apart from the film's bhajan core.