बेरुख़ी से तोड़ कर तुम

'Berukhi Se Tod Kar Tum' is one of the longing-and-reproach songs of the 1943 social drama Inkaar, scored by Ashok Ghosh for Sudhir Sen's picture. Its title — a reproach for a love broken off in indifference — sits squarely in the film's titular theme of refusal (inkaar), the kind of complaint song that anchored the emotional middle of nearly every social picture of the period. The singer and lyricist are not documented in available sources.

Ashok Ghosh would have set a reproach-lament of this kind slow and melody-first, with sustained vocal lines over a sparse string-and-harmonium bed — the restrained ghazal-leaning treatment that early-1940s Bombay composers reserved for the heartbreak number.