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A song from V. Shantaram's Shakuntala (1943) in which the composer Vasant Desai himself provides the vocal, set to Diwan Sharar's lyrics. Composers singing their own compositions was not unusual in the early 1940s, and the number sits within Rajkamal Kalamandir's classical adaptation of Kalidasa's Abhijnanasakuntalam.

Vasant Desai, deeply trained in Hindustani classical music, not only composed Shakuntala's score — his first independent assignment — but also lent his own voice to this number. The composition reflects his classical sensibility, shaping raga-rooted melody to the demands of the dramatic scene.