जाते हो तो जाओ

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. Krishna Kumari Ganguli appears once on the album and, so far as the accessible catalogues show, is otherwise little documented. Both hindigeetmala and MySwar credit her with this track and with no other in the film.

'If you are going, then go' is refusal disguised as consent: the conditional grants what it cannot prevent while making the cost of it audible. The construction is a fixture of the Hindi-Urdu farewell song, where dignity is preserved by not asking the departing person to stay. M. Naseem is the credited lyricist.

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.

The track's value in a reference database is as a record of a singer who barely surfaces elsewhere in the 1945 catalogues.