लहरी जीवन

A 1941 Hindi action picture directed by S.M. Yusuf, fronted by Husn Banu with the comedian Gope in support. Like much of the studio-era output of its moment, the film survives in record largely through its soundtrack — six songs composed by Vasant Kumar Naidu — rather than a documented plot, the print and detailed story now lost to the gaps that swallowed so much pre-war Indian cinema.

The film carried six songs, all composed by Vasant Kumar Naidu. The titles, recorded in the HindiGeetMala song index, lean philosophical and reflective — 'Dukh Ko Dukh Samjho To Dukh Hai' (if you treat sorrow as sorrow, then it is sorrow), 'Dukh Sukh Ka Hai Khel Ye Duniya' (this world is a play of sorrow and joy), 'Hansi Khushi Ka Khel Jeevan Tera Lehari Jeevan' (life is a game of laughter and joy, your wave-like life) — the last echoing the film's own title. Singer and lyricist attributions are not preserved in the consulted sources.

Vasant Kumar Naidu was an active film composer through 1939–1947, credited with music for around 22 films of the period; Laheri Jeewan sits squarely in this run. S.M. Yusuf, the director, would go on to a long career in social and devotional cinema on both sides of Partition.

Laheri Jeewan belongs to the dense, under-documented body of 1941 Hindi films whose chief surviving trace is a gramophone song list. Its value to a music catalogue is exactly that record: six titled compositions by Vasant Kumar Naidu, a busy music director of the 1939–1947 period, preserved where the film itself is not.

No print or detailed account of Laheri Jeewan is readily documented today; what endures is its six-song list and the credit to Vasant Kumar Naidu. For a discovery database, the film functions as an anchor for those song titles and as one more data point in mapping the prolific, fragile output of 1941.