क्यूँ रूठ गए

'Kyu Rooth Gaye' is a song from Prakash Pictures' 1944 social film Kavita, with music by the studio's resident composer Shankar Rao Vyas and lyrics by Ramesh Gupta. The title — a lover's gentle reproach, 'why are you upset?' — places it among the film's tender, conciliatory numbers. The recording survives among the picture's documented song listings; its playback singer is not specified in the available sources.

Shankar Rao Vyas, schooled in the Gwalior khayal tradition, scored Prakash Pictures' songs around melody and classical phrasing, with sparing accompaniment — harmonium, tabla and sarangi. A reproach-song like this would have leaned on a slow, raga-tinted line where the words and their pleading inflection carry the emotion rather than orchestral colour.