मेरी अरज सुनो करतार

'Meri Araj Suno Kartar' is a prayer-themed song from the 1941 Ranjit Movietone film Shaadi, composed by Khemchand Prakash. The title is an appeal to the Creator (Kartar) — a devotional register that recurs across the soundtrack. The singer is not documented in the available song listings, so no singer is attributed here.

The title 'Meri Araj Suno Kartar' — 'Listen to my plea, O Kartar (Creator)' — is a supplicatory address in which the devotee places himself before the Creator in an attitude of humility. 'Kartar' (कारतार, from Sanskrit kartri, 'the one who acts/creates') is a divine epithet used across Hindu and Sikh devotional traditions, particularly in the Nirguni (formless God) poetry of Kabir and the Gurus. In the bhakti context, 'araj' (or arz, from Arabic/Persian, meaning petition or plea) frames prayer as an appeal from the small to the great, the mortal to the eternal. This kind of suppliant address, in which the devotee offers his entreaty directly, was a staple of film prayer-songs in the 1930s and 1940s, when devotional idioms from oral-tradition bhakti were regularly adapted for cinema audiences.

Shaadi (1941) was produced by Ranjit Movietone under director Jayant Desai, and belongs to the extraordinarily productive five-year collaboration between the studio and its in-house composer Khemchand Prakash, who scored 19-20 Ranjit films between 1940 and 1945. The studio's musical identity in this period was defined by Khursheed's voice and Khemchand Prakash's melodic gift. 'Meri Araj Suno Kartar' is a prayer-centred number in a soundtrack that balanced romantic and devotional registers. The film's lyric credits at the film level are shared between Munshi Dil and D.N. Madhok, but the specific lyricist and singer for this song are not preserved in available song listings. The devotional number would have provided tonal variety within the soundtrack, offering a moment of spiritual earnestness amid the romantic and comic songs that dominated Ranjit's output.