गोपी ओ मेरे अज़ीज़ गोद देखा करो

Feroze Nizami trained in classical music under Ustad Abdul Wahid Khan of the Kirana gharana and came to Bombay from a singer's post at All India Radio; Piya Milan is one of only two scores credited to him in 1945, the other being Sharbati Ankhen. Mirza Musharraf appears in the film's cast in both hindigeetmala's and MySwar's listings and in Wikipedia's 1945 filmography, and both catalogues also credit him as the singer here. An actor singing his own number was still ordinary practice in 1945, when playback had not yet displaced the singing performer.

The title is transcribed differently by different catalogues and may be garbled in transmission, so no reading of it is offered here beyond the obvious: it is an address to someone named or called Gopi, using aziz, the Urdu word for dear or beloved, as a term of affection. Munshi Sham Jilani is the credited lyricist, his only song on the album.

Piya Milan (1945) was produced by Wadia Movietone and directed by S. M. Yusuf, with Motilal as the male lead and the eighteen-year-old Nirmala Devi as his leading lady. Wikipedia's list of Hindi films of 1945 classes the picture as a social, and the surviving record catalogues agree on an eleven-song album, every number composed by Feroze Nizami. No print of the film is known to circulate, so the songs and their credits are effectively all that survives of it. The song is documented in both hindigeetmala's and MySwar's track listings for the film, which agree on its singer and, where one exists, on its lyricist.

This is the single male voice on an album otherwise carried entirely by women, which makes it the clearest structural oddity in Nizami's 1945 score for Wadia Movietone.