तोरा नाहीं कन्हैया सुन री यशोदा मैया

“Tora Naahi Kanhaiya Sun Ri Yashoda Maiya” is a song from Anath Ashram (1937), a New Theatres social drama directed by Hemchandra Chunder on the reformist theme of widow-remarriage. The music is by R.C. Boral and the lyrics are by Kidar Sharma (Kedar Nath Sharma). It was sung by Harimati.

“Tora Naahi Kanhaiya Sun Ri Yashoda Maiya” was composed by R.C. Boral for the New Theatres film Anath Ashram (1937), part of one of the most influential studio sound tracks of the 1930s. It is rendered by Harimati.

The lyrics of “Tora Naahi Kanhaiya Sun Ri Yashoda Maiya” were written by Kidar Sharma (Kedar Nath Sharma), who served as the lyricist for Anath Ashram. The film was an early credit in Sharma’s career at New Theatres, where he wrote for R.C. Boral’s compositions before going on to become a celebrated writer-director of Hindi cinema.

“Tora Naahi Kanhaiya Sun Ri Yashoda Maiya” belongs to Anath Ashram (1937), a New Theatres social melodrama directed by Hemchandra Chunder. The film told a reformist story centred on widow-remarriage and an orphanage (“anath ashram”), with a cast that included Uma Shashi, Najmul Hussain, Jagdish Sethi, Prithviraj Kapoor and Trilok Kapoor.