एक बात कहूँ

hindigeetmala lists this track as 'Ek Baat Kahu (Zid)', appending the film title inside the song name itself — the database's way of separating it from the other songs that open with the same three words. myswar records it as 'Ek Baat Kahoon'. Both credit the vocal to Sunder and both give the film's two lyricists against it rather than one, so no per-song lyricist is claimed here.

No recording has been located, so the setting is undocumented. The only structural hint is the title: a line phrased as a request to speak is usually set conversationally, close to speech rhythm, rather than as a sustained melodic arc — but this is a reading of the words, not a description of the record, and it is offered as such.

The phrase is a door-opener. Asking permission to say one thing is never about the one thing; it is a way of making the listener consent in advance to whatever follows, and the Hindi film song has used it for confessions, proposals and bad news alike. Its charm is the pause it builds in — the singer stops on the threshold, and the whole song lives in the delay before the thing is finally said.

Zid was shot in Calcutta in 1945 by H. S. Rawail, who is credited as its cinematographer as well as its director. Sunder, who sings this and five other songs in the film, appears in its cast list; the pattern of an actor recording his own numbers was still ordinary in 1945, before playback singing had fully separated the two trades.

Untraced beyond the two catalogue entries. The film's failure meant its songs were never anthologised, and a title this generic has little chance of being identified again unless a labelled disc surfaces.