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One of the three Yateem songs composed by Datta Korgaonkar, with a lyric by Zia Sarhadi. The singer of this track is not recorded in either of the two surviving song catalogues for the film, and no name is guessed here.

No commercially reissued recording of this track has been located, so its melody and arrangement are not described here from listening. Datta Korgaonkar — credited across the period as both Datta Korgaonkar and K. Datta — took the remaining three songs, making Yateem one of the mid-1940s films where two composers divided a single score rather than sharing it.

The catalogued title is a fragment — 'it has begun' — with the subject of the sentence carried in a line that is not part of the recorded title and is not reproduced here. Truncated titles of this kind are ordinary in 78-rpm era catalogues, where the label text was cut to fit the disc. Zia Sarhadi wrote the lyric. Unusually for a director, he was a practising film lyricist in his own right — credited with the words for Kokila (1937), Hum Tum Aur Woh (1938), Teen Sau Din Ke Baad (1938), Ladies Only (1939), Sajani (1940) and later Anokha Pyar (1948) — so on Yateem he was writing the songs of a picture he was himself directing.

Yateem (1945) was directed by Zia Sarhadi at Central Studios, Bombay, produced by C.L. Divan and photographed by Keki Mistry, with Yakub, Chandraprabha, Lalita Pawar, David Abraham, Bhudo Advani and the young Suraiya in the cast. No plot summary for the film survives in the accessible record; the title, Urdu for 'orphan', is the only clue to its subject. Korgaonkar's three songs are this one, Qayamat Hai Ki Hum Ek Bewafa Se Pyar Karte Hain and Ummeed Mein Behti Hui Nadi Ke.

The song's value now is documentary rather than musical: it is one of the eight entries that let Yateem be reconstructed as a soundtrack at all. Where the film's plot has vanished from the record entirely, the song list has not — which is broadly true of 1940s Hindi cinema, where gramophone catalogues have outlasted the films they came from.