मैं हूँ पिया की जोगनिया

Documented as a Rajkumari solo in Kadambari (1944), this song takes up the bhakti-coloured idiom of the woman who renounces the world for her absent beloved — the joganiya (female ascetic) figure familiar from the Meera tradition. Within the film's reincarnation narrative the image of devotional waiting fits naturally. The lyric is by Kavi Pradeep under the 'Miss Kamal B.A.' pseudonym.

Hari Prasanna Das gives this a bhajan-like slow gait, leaning on a devotional raga colour so that Rajkumari's plaintive, slightly nasal timbre — a hallmark of 1940s female playback — can sustain the longing. The percussion is light, keeping the focus on melody and word.