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'Badli Hawa Luti Bahaar' turns a shifting wind and a spoiled spring into an image of vanished happiness, a seasonal metaphor common to the era's film lyrics. It is one of the seven songs of the Fazli Brothers' Ismat (1944), with words by Shams Lakhnavi, and is documented as a Rajkumari solo — one of the four she sang for the picture, whose songs were shared with Amirbai Karnataki.

The composition is by Pandit Govardhan Prasad, the Jaipur-court Dhrupad singer and Kathak dancer who taught Khemchand Prakash and for whom Ismat was his one and only film score; his classical sensibility colours the song's slow, elegiac mood.