प्यार करना सिखा गए क्यूँ

A solo for the leading lady Sitara Devi from Andhera (1943), composed by Gyan Dutt to a Pandit Indra lyric. The title's reproach — 'why did you teach me to love and then leave' — places this among the film's melancholic romantic numbers, sung by the studio's star kathak dancer.

Gyan Dutt sets the lament at a slow, drawn tempo that gives Sitara Devi's voice room for the reproachful sentiment. The arrangement stays melodic and intimate in the early-1940s Ranjit manner — harmonium and light strings under a melody-first line — rather than reaching for any dance idiom despite the singer's renown as a dancer.