बाबा पागल

Baba Paagal is an obscure lyricist of 1940s Hindi cinema, known today solely through the film Mauji Jeevan (1944), for which he wrote all the songs. The film's music was composed by Gulshan Sufi, and its songs — including 'Bol Re Panchi Bol', 'Raat Sakhi Ek Sapna Aaya', 'Gulshan Mein Rang Layi Hai' and 'Meri Uthti Jawani Ki Dekho Dekho Bahar' — were rendered by singers such as Hamida Banu, Shobha, Malka Amir Jaan and Gulshan Sufi himself. The name is almost certainly a pen name in the tradition of poets who adopted a takhallus; no biographical details — real name, dates or place of origin — have survived in film-music records. Like many wordsmiths of the pre-playback studio era, his work endures only through the song credits of a single film.