तुम छोड़ गए मुझको पिया

'Tum Chhod Gaye Mujhko Piya' is one of the better-remembered numbers from Panchhi (1944), a song of abandonment sung by Zohrabai Ambalewali to Pandit Amarnath's composition. Together with 'Aye Dil Mujhe Ab Le Chal', it is among the two Panchhi titles most often cited in surveys of the singer's catalogue.

Pandit Amarnath sets the lament at a slow, brooding pace, allowing space for Zohrabai Ambalewali's expansive ornamentation. Her dense, full-throated style — rooted in the kotha-trained light-classical tradition — gives the song of abandonment a heavy, lived-in sorrow rather than a delicate one.