बालम अब जाये कित ओर

'Balam Ab Jaye Kit Ore' is one of the ten documented songs of Kaljug (1942), the Hind Pictures social drama directed by and starring Nazir alongside Sitara Devi. Rafiq Ghaznavi composed the score and Hasrat Lakhnavi wrote the words. The Braj-flavoured 'balam' address marks this as a heroine's song of longing, though the specific playback voice is not recorded in surviving sources.

Rafiq Ghaznavi's strength lay in melody that respected the contours of Urdu and Braj poetry, and a viraha lyric like this would have drawn on his slow, sarangi-shadowed manner. His arrangements of the early 1940s favour space and ornament over rhythmic drive, letting the singer's phrasing carry the emotional weight.