चला चल मुसाफ़िर ये जग है सराय

'Chala Chal Musafir Ye Jag Hai Sarai' is among the better-remembered songs of the 1943 film Sawaal, with lyrics by Wali Sahab and music by Pannalal Ghosh, sung by Parul Ghosh. It belongs to the long tradition of the wayfarer (musafir) song in Hindi cinema — the world as a temporary inn, the soul a perpetual traveller — a philosophical-devotional vein that recurs across decades of film music.

Pannalal Ghosh gives the traveller's theme a measured, onward-moving melody that mirrors the lyric's sense of perpetual journeying. Parul Ghosh's restrained, clear delivery keeps the philosophical text from tipping into sentimentality, and the composer's classical training shows in the disciplined melodic line.