कैसे खेलूँ मैं खेल नहीं भाये

This duet, performed by the child singers Baby Shakuntala and Anant Marathe, is one of the seven songs of the 1944 Hindi version of Ramshastri, Prabhat Film Company's costume drama on the Peshwa-era jurist Ram Shastri Prabhune. Set to G. Damle's music and Qamar Jalalabadi's words, the song sits within the film's restrained, narrative-serving score rather than functioning as a standalone hit. Its playful register provides a lighter counterpoint to the grave moral drama at the film's centre.

G. Damle composes in Prabhat's measured, harmonium-and-tabla house idiom, keeping the arrangement spare so the young voices of Baby Shakuntala and Anant Marathe stay forward — a children's-song lilt rather than the classical heft Prabhat usually favoured.