क्यूँ जाने अपने बनते हैं बेगाने

'Kyun Jaane Apne Bante Hain Begaane' is the only individually documented song from Meena (1944), a Bharat Pictures social drama directed by Phani Majumdar. It is noted as one of Manna Dey's earliest playback appearances in Hindi cinema, recorded in the years before his Bombay breakthrough, with the film carrying both a happy and a sad rendition of the number. The lyric is by the studio's lyricist Pandit Phani, the entire seven-song score composed by Hari Prasanna Das.

Hari Prasanna Das, a music director active across Bharat Pictures titles of the mid-1940s, scored Meena's seven numbers in the prevailing North Indian semi-classical film idiom of the period — melody-led, harmonium-and-tabla based, with the voice carried clearly forward. This song's existence in both happy and sad versions reflects the era's common practice of reprising a melody across contrasting dramatic moments.