हरे कृष्ण हरे कृष्ण

'Hare Krishna Hare Krishna' is one of nine songs Saraswati Devi composed for Keshavrao Dhaiber's 1943 devotional biopic Bhakta Raidas, dramatising the life of the 15th-century Bhakti saint-poet Raidas. Set to lyrics by Safdar Aah, the number works in the bhajan register, taking the most universal of Vaishnava chants — the Hare Krishna mahamantra — as its devotional anchor.

Composed by Saraswati Devi — Hindi cinema's first woman music director, trained at Bombay Talkies and working freelance by the early 1940s — the song sits squarely in the classical-devotional idiom she favoured, built on harmonium and tabla under a chant-like melodic line suited to congregational repetition.