दीपक जो गाये सो पाये ग्यान ध्यान

A classical showpiece from Shahenshah Akbar (1943) invoking the legendary Deepak raag — the raga of fire, traditionally believed to light lamps when sung with perfection, a fitting motif in a film about Akbar's court of musical legends. Both composed and co-sung by Ustad Jhande Khan himself, alongside the classical vocalist Pandit Krishnarao Chonkar.

This is the score's most explicitly classical moment: Ustad Jhande Khan, the Bhendi Bazaar–trained composer, takes the rare and difficult Deepak raag as his subject and steps to the microphone himself alongside Pandit Krishnarao Chonkar. The title's text — that one who sings Deepak attains gyan and dhyan (knowledge and meditation) — frames the performance as a devotional-classical demonstration rather than a narrative song.