लग गई चोट करेजवा में हाय रामा

“Lag Gai Chot Karejawa Mein Haay Rama” is one of the songs from Yahudi Ki Ladki (1933). The music is by Pankaj Mullick. The lyrics are by Agha Hashar Kashmiri / Mirza Ghalib. It was performed by K.L. Saigal.

“Lag Gai Chot Karejawa Mein Haay Rama” was set to music by Pankaj Mullick for the 1933 film Yahudi Ki Ladki. It is rendered by K.L. Saigal.

The words of “Lag Gai Chot Karejawa Mein Haay Rama” were written by Agha Hashar Kashmiri / Mirza Ghalib.

Yahudi Ki Ladki (1933) was directed by Premankur Atorthy for New Theatres, Calcutta. The film was adapted from Agha Hashar Kashmiri's Urdu stage play of the same name, itself drawn from Edward Bulwer-Lytton's drama. The story is set in ancient Rome and centres on the conflict between a Jewish merchant named Prince Ezra and a Roman priest named Brutus. K.L. Saigal played a Roman soldier, and Rattan Bai played Rachel, the Jewish girl of the title. The film marks Pankaj Mullick's debut as a Hindi music director. 'Lag Gai Chot Karejawa Mein Haay Rama' — 'My heart has been struck, O Lord Rama' — is a lament in the Avadhi-Urdu mixed register that was characteristic of Agha Hashar Kashmiri's dramatic idiom: Rama invoked not as a sectarian reference but as a cry of pain, the exclamation naturalised into everyday North Indian speech. The song carries the melodic weight of a romantic tragedy, Saigal's characteristic thin, unwavering voice making grief sound quiet rather than theatrical. Pankaj Mullick's sparse accompaniment — typical of the New Theatres production aesthetic — keeps the emotional focus entirely on the text and voice.

K.L. Saigal's songs from Yahudi Ki Ladki were reissued on shellac discs and later on compilations of early Hindi film music. All India Radio broadcast Saigal's recordings from this film extensively through the 1940s and 1950s. The mixed Avadhi-Urdu lyrical register that characterises several of these songs became a template for the romantic-lament genre in Hindi cinema — the instinct to cry 'haay Rama' in the middle of an Urdu lyric persisted in film songs through the 1950s.