रायसाहेब

A 1942 Hindi social drama directed by S. M. Yusuf, headlined by Trilok Kapoor and Kaushalya. Like much of the socially-themed cinema of the early 1940s, the film built its appeal around domestic conflict and moral uplift, framing its story with a song-led score by the composer pair Baldev Nayak and Madhav Lal set to the verses of lyricist Waheed Qureshi.

The score is credited at the film level to the composer duo Baldev Nayak and Madhav Lal, with lyrics by Waheed Qureshi, one of the busier lyricists of the early 1940s. Like much of the period's social cinema the film was song-led, but the individual song titles and their singer attributions are not preserved in available catalogues (hindigeetmala, Atul's Song A Day, lyricist indexes), and no sourced tracklist could be confirmed.

Raisaheb belongs to the dense field of 1942 socials, a year when Hindi cinema's song-and-story format was at its peak before the disruptions of the late-war years. Its chief documentary value lies in its soundtrack — eleven songs attributed to the lesser-remembered composer team of Baldev Nayak and Madhav Lal, a pairing whose work survives mostly through period gramophone catalogues and song listings rather than through the canon.