हम कोचवान प्यारे

'Hum Kochvan Pyare' is a character song from Wapas (1943), sung by actor-singer Asit Baran in the voice of a coachman (kochvan), set to R.C. Boral's music and Pandit Bhushan's lyrics. Such occupational-character numbers were a staple of 1940s cinema, and here Asit Baran's trained, bhadralok-tradition baritone carries the lighthearted conceit.

R.C. Boral, the father of Hindi film music, gives this character piece a buoyant, gently rhythmic gait suited to its coachman conceit, while keeping to the New Theatres preference for melody-led writing over heavy percussion. Asit Baran sings his own on-screen number in a clear, classically-grounded baritone.