ओ प्रेम के दीवाने

'O Prem Ke Diwane' is one of the eight songs from the 1944 film Laheri Cameraman, composed by K. Narayana Rao to lyrics by Waheed Qureshi, as listed at hindigeetmala.net. The vocative title — addressing the 'mad lovers' — suggests an exhortatory or declarative romantic mode rather than an intimate one. The catalogue does not record the playback singer.

K. Narayana Rao's setting of this address-to-lovers verse would, in the 1940s idiom, likely have taken a buoyant, mid-tempo march of a melody — the kind of declarative romantic number that carried a refrain audiences could catch. As with the rest of his Laheri Cameraman score, the arrangement would have stayed melody-forward and lightly orchestrated in the wartime studio manner.