उड़ जा रे उड़ जा रे पंछी पी पी मत बोल

'Ud Ja Re Ud Ja Re Panchhi Pi Pi Mat Bol', sung by Hamida Banu, is the best-remembered track of Mera Khwab (1943) and survives as a rare recording from Ghulam Mohammed's debut as an independent music director. The papiha bird whose 'pi-pi' cry the singer begs to silence is a stock figure of viraha — the ache of separation — placing the song firmly in the melancholic register. The lyric is by M.E. Ashq.

From Ghulam Mohammed's maiden score, this papiha-and-separation song sits in the plaintive mode the composer would later perfect — a measured tempo, sustained sarangi answering the voice, and Hamida Banu's clear, classically inflected delivery carrying the viraha mood. It is the surviving showpiece of a debut soundtrack otherwise little heard.