मैं तो लहंगा नहीं पहनूँ

'Main To Lehnga Nahin Pehnu' is among the most-remembered light numbers of Sahara (1943) — a coquettish refrain in which the singer declares she won't wear the lehnga. The lyric is by Qamar Jalalabadi, the music by Gobind Ram, and it is one of the catchy items the film was noted for. The playback singer is not documented in surviving records.

This is Gobind Ram in his most characteristic mode — a brisk, dholak-driven folk dance built for catchiness, the rhythm pushed forward and the melody kept simple and repeatable. Such folk-rooted novelty numbers were exactly the territory in which the composer earned his reputation through the 1940s.