मर चले हम जीते जी बस मर चले

'Mar Chale Hum Jeete Jee Bas Mar Chale' is one of the seven songs from the 1942 social film Mamta. Its title — a cry that one has died while still alive — marks it as the soundtrack's song of deepest grief, the kind of heartbreak number that anchored the social melodramas of the era. Music was by R. A. Atra, lyrics by G. Shadani. The playback singer is not documented.

A grief-laden lyric like this would call for Atra's slowest, most plaintive setting — a descending, sigh-like vocal melody over harmonium with a barely-there tabla or sustained drone, in the lament idiom common to 1940s social cinema. It belongs to the unified seven-song score Atra composed for Mamta on G. Shadani's lyrics.