मैया सूना मंदिर तेरा धूप नहीं है

“Maiya Soona Mandir Tera Dhoop Nahin Hai” — “your temple lies empty, Mother, no incense burns” — is a devotional lament from Adhuri Kahani (1939), a Ranjit Movietone social tragedy directed by Chaturbhuj Doshi. The music is by Gyan Dutt and the lyrics by Pyarelal Santoshi. It is sung by Durga Khote, who played the central role of the mother Harbala.

“Maiya Soona Mandir Tera Dhoop Nahin Hai” was set to music by Gyan Dutt for the 1939 film Adhuri Kahani. It is rendered by Durga Khote.

The words of “Maiya Soona Mandir Tera Dhoop Nahin Hai” were written by Pyarelal Santoshi (P. L. Santoshi), one of two additional poets — alongside the film’s principal lyricist J. S. Kashyap — who contributed verses to the Adhuri Kahani score. The lyric voices a worshipper’s grief before an abandoned shrine.