मैं नफ़रत करती रहती हूँ

'Mai Nafrat Karti Rehti Hu' is a duet between Shanta Apte and Pahari Sanyal in Phani Majumdar's Mohabbat (1943). The title's declared 'hatred' is the classic device of the love-quarrel song, where professed dislike is the surface over courtship — a register that let the film's two singing leads share the screen in lively call-and-response.

Hari Prasanna Das writes a two-voice exchange for Shanta Apte's bright, forceful soprano and Pahari Sanyal's warm tenor — a structure built on alternating lines that the duet form thrives on. Such teasing duets typically sit at a moderate, lilting tempo that supports the back-and-forth of the lyric without tipping into either lament or full celebration.