हम बंबई छोड़ के जाते हैं

'Hum Bambai Chhod Ke Jaate Hain' is a leave-taking number from Mr. Jhatpat (1943), the Harishchandra Pictures comedy-musical directed by Harbans. The title's address to the city of Bombay places the song squarely in the urban-comic vein of the era's entertainers. Lyrics are by Waheed Qureshi, who penned the film's complete song set.

C. Ramchandra composed the score under his early name Ram Chitalkar. A comic city-farewell lyric of this kind would have invited a brisk, conversational tune — the kind of rhythm-led, lightly-orchestrated writing that marked his apprentice work in Bombay before his celebrated late-1940s breakthrough.