परेशान हूँ कि क्यूँ मेरी परेशानी नहीं जाती

Sung by Amirbai Karnataki to Dewan Sharar's lyrics and Vasant Desai's music, this is the best-remembered song of Parbat Pe Apna Dera (1944). The lament — a heart asking why its disquiet will not lift — was singled out by music historians as one of the finest female vocal performances of the year. It exemplifies the restrained, expressive style that made Amirbai one of the leading playback voices of the mid-1940s before the Lata era reshaped the field.

Vasant Desai sets the verse in a slow, ghazal-leaning melody that gives Amirbai Karnataki room to shade each phrase with feeling rather than ornament — the unhurried tempo and sparse accompaniment typical of Rajkamal's mid-1940s sound, where the voice carries the emotional weight and the orchestra stays deferential.