सो जा प्यारे सो जा

'So Jaa Pyare So Jaa' is a lullaby (lori) from the 1942 film Lalaji, written by Arzoo Lakhnavi and composed by Vasant Kumar Naidu. The singer is not documented in available listings. The cradle-song form was a fixture of family-social films of the period, and this number gives the song-rich Lalaji its gentlest moment.

Naidu writes the lullaby in the slow, rocking metre the form demands, the melody narrow in range and repetitive in a way meant to soothe rather than impress. The arrangement stays soft so the cradle-song intimacy that Arzoo Lakhnavi's lori text calls for is preserved.