आज अपने घर में

One of the eleven songs documented on record for Amrapali (1945), composed by Saraswati Devi to lyrics by Kavi Pradeep. The film-song catalogues carry the title and the composer credit but no singer, so no singer is recorded here. The title places the song in the household register — aaj apne ghar mein, 'today, in my own home' — the frame a film builds around an arrival or a welcome.

No recording is available to describe, and the catalogues give only the composer credit. What can be said is contextual: Saraswati Devi's writing on this score, judged from the songs whose descriptions survive, favours slow-to-medium tempi, thin accompaniment and a melodic line left exposed for the voice — the classicist habits of a musician trained under Vishnu Narayan Bhatkhande.

Only the title is documented, so nothing beyond it should be claimed. What it establishes is a domestic setting and a marked day: ghar is the ordinary word for home, and aaj fixes the song to an occasion rather than a condition. In the Amrapali story the house is not a neutral space — it is the courtesan's own establishment, the thing she owns and will eventually give away.

Amrapali (1945) was directed by Nandlal Jaswantlal for Murli Movietone and drew on the legend of Amrapali of Vaishali, the celebrated nagarvadhu of the Licchavi republic who, in the traditional account, renounced her position and gave her mango grove and fortune to the Buddha's order. Sabita Devi, Prem Adib, Jeevan, Arun, Jagdish Sethi, Badri Prasad, Gulab and Sankatha Prasad are the documented cast. Saraswati Devi composed eleven songs for the picture to lyrics by Kavi Pradeep — one of the few soundtracks she wrote after leaving Bombay Talkies.

Nothing is documented about this song's reception, and no claim is made. The entry exists so that the eleven-song shape of Amrapali's soundtrack is preserved rather than silently truncated to the six songs whose singer is known.