ऐ नौजवानो जागो ये ख़्वाब नहीं अच्छे

Titled 'Ae Naujawano Jago Ye Khwab Nahi Achhe' ('O youth, awake — these dreams are no good'), this is one of the ten Himanshu Dutta compositions in Bhaichara (1943). Its exhortatory title, fitting a film whose name means 'brotherhood', echoes the awakening-and-unity themes that ran through Hindi cinema in the early-1940s wartime years. The film's words came from a pool of five lyricists — Kumar Vyas, Uday Shankar Bhatt, Ishwar Chandra Kapoor, M.R. Kapoor and Nazir Bedi.

Himanshu Dutta, trained in the Bengali film-song tradition that grew alongside Kazi Nazrul Islam's music, brought a melodic, gently-orchestrated approach to his Hindi scores. For a rousing youth-anthem title like this one, that tradition typically favoured a march-like cadence and chorus voicing over heavy percussion.