चढ़ते हुए तूफ़ान से

One of the nine documented songs from the 1944 film Laheri Badmash, with music by Avinash Vyas and lyrics by Sadiq Lakhnavi. The storm imagery of the title suggests a number of defiance or resolve, a common emotional register in the social melodramas of wartime Bombay cinema. The singer is unattributed in the surviving catalogue, and the song's role within the lost plot is undocumented.

Avinash Vyas frames the song in the chamber idiom of the period — harmonium carrying the melody over dholak and tabla. A defiance number would have demanded a firm, forward-pressing tempo and a melodic line built to lift across its phrases, the arrangement spare enough to let the vocal carry the song's resolve.