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A solo by Shamim from Gauri (1943), its title — a confession of being helpless before one's own heart — places it among the film's romantic-melancholic songs. It belongs to Khemchand Prakash's score for Kidar Sharma's film, with lyrics by the director, and has been singled out in vintage-song writing as one of Shamim's numbers in the picture.

Khemchand Prakash sets the song in a slow, plaintive film mode suited to its theme of helpless attachment, foregrounding Shamim's actor-singer voice over a restrained accompaniment. It represents the gentler, ghazal-adjacent strand of Gauri's score, distinct from the film's lighter folk-flavoured numbers.