राखी का दिन आया भैया

Feroze Nizami trained in classical music under Ustad Abdul Wahid Khan of the Kirana gharana and came to Bombay from a singer's post at All India Radio; Piya Milan is one of only two scores credited to him in 1945, the other being Sharbati Ankhen. Zohrabai Ambalewali's second of three on the album. Both catalogues carry her name against the track and leave the lyricist column blank, which is why this entry does the same.

The song addresses a bhaiyya, a brother, on the day of Rakhi, the festival at which a sister ties a thread on her brother's wrist and he undertakes to protect her. Its presence in the album implies a brother-and-sister strand in a film otherwise described as a romance. Neither hindigeetmala nor MySwar records a lyricist for this track, and none is guessed at here - the lyricists array is deliberately left empty.

Piya Milan (1945) was produced by Wadia Movietone and directed by S. M. Yusuf, with Motilal as the male lead and the eighteen-year-old Nirmala Devi as his leading lady. Wikipedia's list of Hindi films of 1945 classes the picture as a social, and the surviving record catalogues agree on an eleven-song album, every number composed by Feroze Nizami. No print of the film is known to circulate, so the songs and their credits are effectively all that survives of it. The song is documented in both hindigeetmala's and MySwar's track listings for the film, which agree on its singer and, where one exists, on its lyricist.

Festival songs of this kind were staple gramophone material in the 1940s, but no separate release or reissue of this one has been traced beyond the film's own catalogue entry.