काहे पाप से पाप छिपाये रे

A reflective, morally pointed song from Kunwara Baap (1942) — its title posing the question of concealing one wrong with another, which fits the film's plot of an unwed mother and mistaken paternity. This is the one track on the soundtrack for which HindiGeetMala documents a singer: composer Ramchandra Pal himself. Lyrics by Amritlal Nagar, Baalam Pardesi and Satyakam Sharma.

Ramchandra Pal sings his own composition here — a slow, restrained melody over harmonium and tabla, the spare arrangement letting the questioning lyric carry the weight, in the sombre register the film reserves for its moral turns.