बदली बदली तेरी निगाह रहे

'Badli Badli Teri Nigar Rahe' is among the ten songs Shyam Babu Pathak composed for Lajwanti (1942), the Shree Ganesh Pictures social drama directed by Hiralal R. Doctor. Its title — on a beloved's altered gaze — reads as a bittersweet number of the kind that anchored the film's emotional through-line. Source listings spell the word 'nigar', most likely the Urdu 'nigaah' (gaze). Singer and lyricist credits are undocumented.

The music is by Shyam Babu Pathak, the Gwalior-trained composer blessed in youth by Pandit Vishnu Digambar Paluskar. For a sentiment-led number such as this, his approach in the social-film idiom favoured a clear, classically inflected melodic line carried over sparse harmonium-and-tabla accompaniment.