किसको सुनाऊँ अपनी बरबादी का फ़साना

A solo by the heroine Husnara, this is among the nine documented songs of the 1944 Laheri Badmash, composed by Avinash Vyas to Sadiq Lakhnavi's lyrics. The title — 'to whom shall I tell the tale of my ruin' — is a textbook ghazal-of-lament opening, and the catalogue credits Husnara as the voice. The song's exact narrative placement in the now-lost film is undocumented.

For a ghazal of ruin, Avinash Vyas would have kept the tempo slow and the arrangement bare — harmonium and tabla setting a measured ground while the sarangi mirrors the voice's grief phrase by phrase. Husnara's actress-singer delivery, plain and forward, suits the confessional intimacy the lyric demands, the music receding so the lament can stand exposed.