पिए जा और पिए जा अकबत की बातें जाने कोई क्या

“Piye Ja Aur Piye Ja Akbat Ki Baatein Jaane Koi Kya” is among the most-recalled songs sung by K. L. Saigal in Pujarin (1936), a social drama directed by Prafulla Roy for International Film Craft and based on Saratchandra Chattopadhyay's story 'Dena Paona'. The music is by Timir Baran and the lyrics by Kidar Sharma.

Timir Baran set this Saigal song to a score that blended Western waltz rhythms and orchestration with the framework of Raag Khamaj. The recording is widely cited as having been captured in one unrehearsed take, lending it an unusually direct emotional charge.

The lyric of “Piye Ja Aur Piye Ja” was written by Kidar Sharma, who shared the film's song-writing with Pandit Bhushan. Its drinking-song surface carries a fatalistic philosophical undertone fitting the morally fallen hero of the story.

Pujarin, a remake of the Bengali film 'Dena Paona', follows Jibananda (Saigal), a morally fallen youth who marries for money and abandons his wife, only to meet her years later as a temple priestess. This intoxicated, fatalistic song belongs to his dissolute phase, voicing a 'drink on, who cares about consequences' resignation.

Along with 'Jo Beet Chuki So Beet Chuki', this is among the most-recalled Saigal recordings from his International Film Craft / Timir Baran phase, often cited in accounts of the singer's career for its single-take recording legend.