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'Ek Bar Unhe Mila De Phir Meri Tauba Maula' is a Naushad–Madhok solo from Pehle Aap, sung by Mohammed Rafi in his debut film. Cast as a half-prayer, half-bargain to the divine for one more meeting with the beloved, it is among the very earliest solo film recordings of the singer who would go on to dominate Hindi cinema's male playback.

Naushad pitches the song slow and supplicatory, with the melodic line bending toward the plaintive on the repeated invocation of 'Maula.' The arrangement is sparing — harmonium and tabla framing a young voice — and the recording is valuable less for vocal polish than as evidence of the raw material Naushad heard in the newcomer Rafi.