उड़ जाऊँ रे पंछी

'Udd Jaau Re Panchhi' is a yearning, philosophical song from the 1943 social drama Inkaar, scored by Ashok Ghosh for Sudhir Sen's picture. The panchhi (bird) as an emblem of the free soul longing to fly beyond its cage is one of the deepest-rooted images in Hindi film and folk lyric, and a staple of the reflective number in social cinema. The singer and lyricist are not documented in available sources.

Ashok Ghosh would have set a panchhi-longing song slow and open, with long sustained vocal lines suggesting flight and a sparse accompaniment leaving air around the voice — the meditative, almost-bhajan register that 1940s composers used for the soul-searching number.