जागो जागो प्रेम की राजदुलारी

One of only three Meghdoot songs for which MySwar records an individual lyricist — Faiyyaz Hashmi alone, rather than the film's three-name credit block — this is a waking-song, the form in which someone is called out of sleep by a lover, an attendant or the morning itself. The singers are not named in any surviving catalogue, so that credit is left empty here.

Saregama's reissue runs it at 3:08. Kamal Dasgupta's Meghdoot writing is consistently light-classical rather than orchestral — the singer well forward, a small ensemble behind — and a waking-song in that idiom would carry its energy in the melodic line and the repeated call rather than in tempo or instrumentation.

'Rajdulari' — the cherished daughter of a king — is a term of address that flatters and protects at once, and pairing it with 'prem ki' makes love itself the sovereign whose favourite she is. Calling someone awake is one of the oldest devices in Indian song, sitting somewhere between the devotional prabhati sung to rouse a deity and the domestic teasing of a wedding-morning song. Faiyyaz Hashmi, who had come up writing for the Gramophone Company in Calcutta before he wrote for films, tends towards exactly this kind of courtly, formally addressed line.

Meghdoot was Debaki Bose's adaptation of Kalidasa's Meghadutam for Kirti Pictures, released in October 1945 with Shahu Modak and Leela Desai in the leads. Kamal Dasgupta — a composer who spent almost his whole career inside HMV's Calcutta studio rather than in Bombay — wrote the eleven documented songs, and the film's three credited lyricists, Faiyyaz Hashmi, Gauddas and Pandit Narottam Vyas, are listed together at film level in the catalogues rather than song by song.

The song's chief documentary value now is the lyric credit: it is one of the three places where Faiyyaz Hashmi's individual authorship inside Meghdoot can actually be established, against eight songs where the record shows only the film's undivided trio of lyricists. It survives on Saregama's digital reissue.