एक लफ़्ज़े मोहब्बत अदना ये फ़साना है

One of the eight documented songs of Meri Khwahish (1941), composed by the team of Vasant and Shanti Kumar with lyrics by Baalam Pardesi and A. K. Sindhu. The title-line frames love as both the smallest word and the whole story — a characteristic early-talkie blend of Urdu ghazal sensibility and filmi romance. Individual singer credits for the film's songs have not survived in available references.

The title 'Ek Lafze Mohabbat Adana Ye Fasana Hai' — 'Love is just one word; this is a humble (small) story' — is a philosophical deflation of the grandeur of love into its simplest components. 'Adna' (Arabic, meaning small, humble, lowly, of little account) functions here as a pointed irony: the greatest of human emotions reduced to one word, one simple story. This kind of ironic deflation is a characteristic move in Urdu poetry's ghazal tradition, where the beloved's power and the lover's experience are at once inflated and minimized, the cosmic made intimate and the infinite made domestic. 'Fasana' (story, tale, legend) invokes the Urdu literary tradition of narrative poetry and the sentimental tale; to call love an 'adna fasana' is to acknowledge the ordinariness of the experience even while singing about it. Lyricists Baalam Pardesi and A.K. Sindhu worked in a minor-studio register that drew on the standard Urdu-Hindi romantic vocabulary without the literary prestige of the great Bombay lyricists.

Meri Khwahish (1941) was a small-studio social film whose soundtrack of eight songs was jointly composed by Vasant and Shanti Kumar, with lyrics written by Baalam Pardesi and A.K. Sindhu. The compositional and lyrical dual-credit format was common in smaller studios of the early talkie era, where harmonium specialists and melody composers often shared credit without clear delineation of individual contributions. The film starred actors from the B-circuit Bombay industry and its documentation has not survived as well as larger studio productions of the same year. 'Ek Lafze Mohabbat Adana Ye Fasana Hai' is one of eight documented songs; neither its singer nor its precise lyricist is preserved. Its philosophical Urdu-Hindi title — 'Love is only one word; this is a humble tale' — suggests a meditative number within what was likely a romantic social narrative.