सावन ने बूंदन की झालर डाली

'Sawan Ne Boondan Ki Jhaalar Daali' is one of the nine documented songs of P. C. Barua's 1943 bilingual Rani, sung as a duet by unidentified male and female voices. A monsoon song — 'the rains have hung a fringe of droplets' — it joins the long Hindi-cinema tradition of sawan numbers. Music by Kamal Dasgupta, lyrics by Pandit Madhur.

Composer Kamal Dasgupta scores the song in his melody-first Calcutta idiom, built on harmonium and light tabla rather than heavy folk percussion — a sound that set Barua's Rani apart from the Punjab-folk energy then sweeping Lahore and Bombay film music in 1943.