मैं क्यों घर छोड़ूँ बन जाऊँ

A characteristically Kabir-like song from Bhakta Kabir (1942) that defends spiritual life lived in the world rather than in renunciation — the weaver-saint who stayed at his loom rejecting the call to the forest. Credited to Kabir with adaptation by Pandit Shivkumar and composed by Himangshu Dutta for the film that launched Bharat Bhushan.

Himangshu Dutta matches the verse's argumentative resolve with a firm mid-tempo devotional setting on tabla and harmonium, the line plain and assertive so Kabir's defence of the householder's path reads clearly — the verse-respecting manner of the New Theatres composer.