गाओ कबीर उड़ाओ अबीर

A rare instance of music director Anil Biswas singing on his own composition, this Jwar Bhata song invokes Kabir and the colours of Holi (abir). Narendra Sharma's debut lyrics reach toward the saint-poet tradition, set to Biswas's medium-tempo, folk-tinged melody. It is one of the more distinctive numbers in the 1944 Bombay Talkies score.

Biswas builds the song on a folk-festival rhythm suited to its Holi theme, keeping the orchestration light so the devotional Kabir imagery stays foregrounded. His own voice, warm and conversational rather than trained-virtuoso, gives the piece an unusually intimate, hand-made feel.