गीत आशा का गा

'Geet Asha Ka Gaa' is listed first in the song catalogue of Rahat (1945), the Kirti Pictures social directed by Ramnik Desai. Pandit Phani wrote it and S. Dutt set it; no singer is credited for the track in either of the two catalogues that preserve the film's music. The title — 'sing the song of hope' — is all that now indicates its function in a film for which no print, synopsis or review has been traced.

Nothing is documented about the arrangement: no disc transfer of this track has surfaced online and no notation or recording detail survives, so its scoring cannot be described. What the record does establish is authorship — S. Dutt composed all ten numbers of Rahat, one of very few films for which his name is catalogued.

Read as a title alone, 'Geet Asha Ka Gaa' belongs to the exhortative mode of 1940s film lyric — the song addressed to a listener in the imperative, urging them to sing rather than describing the singer's own feeling. Pandit Phani, who also wrote Rahat's dialogue, worked frequently in this register elsewhere in his catalogue. No verbatim text of the lyric is reproduced here.

Rahat was produced by Kirti Pictures with a screenplay by D'Jalma Desai and dialogue by Pandit Phani, and cast Sardar Akhtar, P. Jairaj, Indira, Vatsala Kumthekar, Kanhaiyalal and Hari Shivdasani. Wikipedia's list of 1945 Hindi films classifies it as a social. Beyond the credits and the ten song titles, no account of the film's story or its reception has been traced.

The song survives as a catalogue entry rather than as audio: no commercial reissue and no online transfer of it is known. It is preserved here as part of the complete ten-title record of a film that has otherwise disappeared.