तलाश-ए-हक़ के गीत — संगीत फ़िल्म कं., 1935

Sangeet Film Co.'s Talash-E-Haq (1935) is a landmark of female creative agency: Jaddan Bai — trained in the Banaras thumri tradition — founded the studio, produced and directed the music, acted in the lead, and introduced her five-year-old daughter Fatima Rashid (Nargis) to the screen. Her music, rooted in classical Hindustani and thumri forms, brought the tawa'if's aesthetic authority into the film medium.

Jaddan Bai's music compositions draw on her Banaras gharana training in thumri, dadra and related light-classical forms, filtered through the needs of popular film drama. Her double role as composer and performer gives the soundtrack an organic unity rarely achieved in commercial film music of the era.

Lyricist undocumented; Jaddan Bai may have written her own texts, as was common among tawa'if performers trained in poetic improvisation. The language would have been Braj Bhasha and Urdu in the classical thumri manner.