घटा उठी घनघोर जीवन की

'Ghata Uthi Ghanghor Jeevan Ki' is one of the nine songs of Mera Khwab (1943), the social drama from Paras Prakashan that gave Ghulam Mohammed his independent debut as composer. The lyric, by M.E. Ashq, draws on the classic monsoon-as-life metaphor, suggesting a song of gathering trouble or longing. Within a score that passed quietly at the box office, it survives as part of the composer's documented first work.

From Ghulam Mohammed's first independent assignment, the song's monsoon theme would have invited a slower, weightier setting — the kind of brooding rhythm-and-sarangi texture common to dramatic 1940s film songs, foreshadowing the controlled melancholy the composer would master later in his career.