जीवन सपना टूट गया

'Jeevan Sapna Tut Gaya' is one of the ten songs Pandit Amarnath composed for Ragini (1945), the Maheshwari Pictures production made in Lahore and directed by Shankar Mehta. pakmag.net catalogues it as 'Jeevan sapna toot geya' and hindigeetmala as 'Jeevan Sapna Tut Gaya'; the census of 1945 films records both spellings as separate entries, which is how a single song can appear twice in a title list. No singer and no lyricist are recorded for it by the Hindi Film Geet Kosh, by hindigeetmala or by pakmag.net, and no recording has been located, so this entry carries only what the catalogues actually document.

No disc of this song has been recovered, so its arrangement cannot be described. What is known is the hand behind it: Pandit Amarnath, born in Jalandhar in 1912, a Punjab-school composer who worked in a folk-inflected idiom of direct melody over dholak and harmonium, and who was scoring several films at once in 1945. No claim is made here about how this particular number was set.

The title uses the plainest available Hindi and refuses every ornament the Urdu side of the film's vocabulary would have offered. Jeevan, sapna, toot gaya — life, dream, has broken — is a construction a child could parse, and that flatness is a poetic decision: after a break of this kind, the elaborate register is exactly what is no longer available to the speaker. In a song list that also contains 'there was once a world made of one hope', this is very likely the sequence's low point, though with no plot surviving the ordering cannot be confirmed. No lyricist is credited for it in any accessible source.

Ragini was made at Maheshwari Pictures in Lahore in 1945, directed by Shankar Mehta from a screenplay by M. R. Kapur, photographed by Harcharn Singh Kwatra, and led by Smriti Biswas and Najm-ul-Hassan with Pran in support. No print and no plot summary of the film survive, so the dramatic placement of this song cannot be stated. It is one of the five numbers in the score for which no accessible catalogue — the HFGK, hindigeetmala or pakmag.net — records either a singer or a poet.

There is no documented afterlife for this song: no reissue, no recovered disc, no cover version, no contemporary notice. It survives as an entry in the Hindi Film Geet Kosh song list for Ragini and in the two online catalogues that carry the same list, hindigeetmala and pakmag.net. That is the whole of the record, and this catalogue does not add to it.