बने दुश्मन चाहे ज़माना

'Bane Dushman Chahe Zamana' figures among the ten songs documented for Nanubhai Vakil's 1941 fantasy Jadui Bandhan, with music by Ram Gopal Pandey and lyrics by Pandit Anuj. The title's stance — the lovers' bond enduring against a hostile world — is a staple sentiment of the period's romantic numbers. (Note: this is a distinct, earlier song from the later, unrelated 'Bane Chahe Dushman Zamana Hamara' of Dostana, 1980.)

Pandit Anuj's title line 'Bane Dushman Chahe Zamana' draws on the romantic-defiance mode embedded in Urdu ghazal and popular Hindustani song from at least the nineteenth century. The word 'zamana' (the world, the age, society) is a recurrent antagonist in this tradition: it is the force that judges, separates, and condemns, against which the lovers' private compact is the only zone of freedom. In this lyric the conditional structure — 'even if (chahe) the world becomes our enemy' — converts the social threat into a bond-strengthening device: the more hostile the world, the more absolute the commitment. Pandit Anuj, working within the Bombay lyric idiom of the early 1940s, employs this well-worn device with the directness expected of a popular-song mukhra: the challenge and the response compressed into a single line.

Jadui Bandhan (1941) was a fantasy film directed by Nanubhai Vakil for Mohan Pictures, with music by Ram Gopal Pandey and lyrics by Pandit Anuj. The cast included Sarojini, Shiraz, and Baburao Pahelwan — names typical of the Bombay fantasy-stunt genre of the period. With ten documented songs, the film's score ranged across multiple moods: heroic, comic, romantic, and devotional-defiant. 'Bane Dushman Chahe Zamana' — 'let the whole world become our enemy' — belongs to the defiant-romantic register: the lovers' bond held firm against collective social hostility. Note that this is a distinct, earlier song from the more widely remembered 'Bane Chahe Dushman Zamana Hamara' from Dostana (1980). Singer credit for this recording has not survived in available references.