उम्मीद क्या हो गीत की

'Ummeed Kya Ho Geet Ki' is one of the nine documented songs from P. C. Barua's 1943 Rani. Its self-reflexive title — musing on what a song itself can hope for — fits the introspective register of Kamal Dasgupta's Calcutta-school melodies. The lyrics are by Pandit Madhur.

Composer Kamal Dasgupta scores the song in his melody-first Calcutta idiom, built on harmonium and light tabla rather than heavy folk percussion — a sound that set Barua's Rani apart from the Punjab-folk energy then sweeping Lahore and Bombay film music in 1943.