पी नैनों जब नैना मिले

'Pee Naino Jab Naina Mile' is a song from Tulsi (1941), with music by Harishchandra Bali and lyrics by Pandit Phani. The title — the moment a lover's eyes meet the beloved's — is the classic romantic conceit of Hindi film verse, here treated within the film's early-1940s idiom. Singer credits are not documented in surviving sources.

'Pee Naino Jab Naina Mile' — 'Beloved, when eyes met eyes' — places the entire weight of romantic experience on a single, instantaneous event: the meeting of glances. The compound 'pee naino' (the beloved's eyes, using the devotional 'pee' for the lover) and 'naina mile' (eyes met) is a classic construction from the 'naina-milana' (eye-meeting) tradition that runs through Braj bhasha poetry and the thumri idiom into the Bombay film-song. Pandit Phani's lyrical approach in this period, as seen also in his Sajjan (1941) songs, favoured kinetic imagery — verbs of movement and perception — over elaborate philosophical conceits. The song's Romantic mood classification and tender categorisation suggest a gentle, intimate number rather than a dramatic encounter, exploring the vulnerability and transport of the moment two lovers first see one another clearly.

Tulsi (1941) was directed by Dada Gunjal. The cast included Shalini Mardolkar, Trilok Kapoor, Shrinavas, and Neela. Harishchandra Bali composed the music; Pandit Phani wrote the lyrics. Trilok Kapoor was a notable presence in Bombay cinema of the 1940s, known for action-adventure roles and mythological films. The combination of his casting alongside a lyricist known for romantic verse (Pandit Phani) and a romantic song like 'Pee Naino Jab Naina Mile' suggests the film included a romantic subplot alongside its main narrative. No surviving audio recording of this song has been documented in publicly accessible sources; the title is known from catalogue listings.