बंसुरिया सुनूँगी

One of the four Mohantara Talpade songs in Khemchand Prakash's score for Dhanna Bhagat (1945). The title states an intention — I shall hear the flute — which places the singer in the gopi's position of the Krishna cycle, waiting for the sound that summons her out of the household and into devotion. Very little beyond the credit line survives about this recording; it is listed in the film's catalogue entry with singer, composer and lyricist and nothing more.

The score's female songs share a common palette — harmonium, light tabla or dholak, a flute obbligato where the lyric calls for one — and this is the number where the flute is not decoration but subject, answering the vocal line as the thing being waited for. Khemchand Prakash's writing for Ranjit's devotionals favoured melodic simplicity over the elaboration he brought to Tansen two years earlier.

The flute in this repertoire is never only an instrument. It is the sound that reaches a listener who is not looking for it, arrives from outside the house, and makes ordinary obligations suddenly negotiable — which is why gopi poetry treats hearing it as the beginning of a life change rather than an aesthetic pleasure. Casting the sentence in the future tense, as a thing the speaker will do, turns a passive longing into a decision, and that shift is what distinguishes this lyric from the more familiar complaint songs of the same tradition.

Dhanna Bhagat was one of the last films of Khemchand Prakash's Ranjit Movietone period, made under Kidar Sharma's direction and released in Bombay in the closing weeks of 1945. The soundtrack's ten songs were split between four singers, with Mohantara Talpade carrying the largest single share.

Nothing is documented about this song's reception, and no reissue is known. It is preserved here as part of a complete soundtrack record rather than for any claim to influence.