क्या नील गगन में समा शरद का छाया

“Kya Neel Gagan Me Samaa Sharad Ka Chhaya” is a song from Hunterwali (1935), the Wadia Movietone action film directed by Homi Wadia that launched Fearless Nadia. A lyrical, scene-setting number, it evokes the beauty of the autumn (sharad) sky against the blue heavens — a contrast to the film's whip-and-stunt action. The music is by Master Mohammed and the lyric is by the studio's writer Joseph David. The playback singer is not documented in the available film records.

Master Mohammed, who composed the whole Hunterwali score and appeared in the cast as the King, gives this nature-poem a gentle, lyrical setting in the early-talkie idiom of mid-1930s Bombay cinema.

Joseph David — Wadia Movietone's dialogue writer, lyricist and co-screenwriter of Hunterwali — wrote this evocative lyric on the autumn sky. HindiGeetMala credits him as the song's lyricist.