दिल था कभी तुम्हारा

A reflective solo by Brijmala from Kidar Sharma's Gauri (1943), built on the reversal in its title line — the heart that once belonged to the beloved has now become the singer's own. The number is part of Khemchand Prakash's score for the film, with lyrics by Kidar Sharma, and has been featured among the film's notable songs in vintage-music writing on the period.

Khemchand Prakash sets the verse in a slow, ghazal-adjacent film mode that suits the title's quiet ache. The composition leans on melodic restraint rather than ornament, letting Brijmala's actor-singer delivery foreground the words — characteristic of the more intimate registers in his early-1940s Ranjit Movietone output.