सखी री मौसम सुहाना आया

'Sakhi Ri Mausam Suhana Aaya' is the third title in Rahat's catalogue, written by Pandit Phani and composed by S. Dutt. Neither hindigeetmala.net nor myswar.co records a singer for it. The title places it in the sakhi-address tradition — a woman speaking to her companion about the arriving season.

The recording has not been traced and no notation survives, so the setting cannot be described. Seasonal numbers of this kind were conventionally built on folk metres in the period, but nothing in the sources establishes that for this particular track, and it is not asserted here.

The vocative sakhi ri is one of the oldest devices in the Hindi lyric: it gives the singer a confidante, and so lets private feeling be spoken aloud without being addressed to the beloved. A song that opens by telling a friend that the pleasant season has come is, by convention, about what the season makes the speaker feel rather than about the weather. No lyric text is reproduced.

Rahat's ten titles cover the standard emotional range of a 1945 social: seasonal songs, love complaints, a song of hope and a patriotic number. This is the seasonal entry. Which performer sang it on screen is not recoverable — the film's picturisation is entirely undocumented.

Nothing of this song's later life is on record: no reissue, no cover version, no broadcast listing. Its survival is bibliographic — the title, the lyricist and the composer, preserved in two vintage catalogues.