आप पिता या पुत्र है

'Aap Pita Ya Putra Hai' is a Leela Bai solo from Prabhakar Pictures' 1944 mythological Maharathi Karna, set by Datta Korgaonkar (K. Datta) to verse by Pandit Shivkumar. Its title poses a question of lineage and identity — fitting for a film about Karna, whose entire tragedy turns on hidden parentage and the relationships of father, mother and son. The number sits among the score's reflective, dramatically-charged pieces.

Datta Korgaonkar treats this as a question-laden, reflective melody — Leela Bai shading the interrogative phrasing with weight, the medium tempo and uncluttered accompaniment leaving room for the verse's emotional charge, in the dramatic studio-mythological style of the mid-1940s.