आँख का नशा के गीत — मदन थिएटर्स, 1933

Ankh Ka Nasha paired two of the era's finest classical vocalist-actresses: Mukhtar Begum, whose ghazal mastery had made her one of Bombay's most respected singers, and Jahanara Kajjan, the 'Lark of India' whose tours of Central Asia and Persia had made her the Indian classical singer best known internationally. Brijlal Varma's settings exploited the dramatic possibilities of two contrasting voices in an Agha Hashar Kashmiri social drama about betrayal and exploitation.

Brijlal Varma's settings maximised the dramatic contrast between Mukhtar Begum's ghazal mastery and Kajjan's thumri-influenced voice — the scoring choices that gave Agha Hashar's social drama its musical texture.

Agha Hashar Kashmiri's dramatic framework shaped the song placement in Ankh Ka Nasha — ghazal forms for the themes of betrayal and social censure, the classical voice as moral witness.