जादू भरी गठरिया है

'Jadu Bhari Gathariya Hai' is a folk-flavoured song from the 1943 social drama Inkaar, scored by Ashok Ghosh for Sudhir Sen's picture. The image of a 'bundle full of magic' (jadu bhari gathariya) suggests the kind of bazaar-or-pedlar set piece that early-1940s films used to introduce wonder, disguise or a travelling character. The singer and lyricist are not documented in available sources.

Ashok Ghosh would have set this kind of folk-curiosity number with a beckoning, slightly mischievous melody over a light dholak rhythm — the open-air, calling-out idiom that drew the screen crowd to a pedlar or a wandering performer in a 1940s social film.