इन्हीं लोगों ने ले लीना दुपट्टा मोरा

Shamshad Begum's 1941 recording of 'Inhi Logon Ne Le Leena Dupatta Mora' for Himmat is the earliest known film version of a song that would become one of Hindi cinema's defining mujra numbers. Composed by Gobind Ram to Aziz Kashmiri's words and rooted in a folk melody believed to have circulated among the tawaifs of the era, the song was reused in Aabroo (1943) — sung on screen by the comic actor Yakub — before Lata Mangeshkar's Pakeezah (1972) rendition, picturised on Meena Kumari, made it permanent. Himmat is the documented origin point of that long journey.