दिल में ये किसकी याद समाती चली जाये

This is one of the ten documented numbers from Kaljug (1942), Hind Pictures' social drama directed by and starring Nazir with Sitara Devi. The full soundtrack was Rafiq Ghaznavi's, set to Hasrat Lakhnavi's Urdu lyrics. The title's reflective phrasing — a memory steadily filling the heart — places it among the film's introspective, ghazal-coloured songs; the playback singer is not preserved in surviving record listings.

Rafiq Ghaznavi, himself an accomplished ghazal singer, was at home in this register; a lyric of remembrance suited his ornamented, melisma-friendly melodic style. The early-1940s arrangement would have set the voice against sparse harmonium and a sighing sarangi, the rhythm kept deliberately understated to foreground the poetry.