उठ मेरी प्यारी बेटी

'Uth Meri Pyari Beti' is a song from V. Shantaram's Padosi (1941), with music by Master Krishnarao and lyrics by Pandit Sudarshan. A tender waking-song addressed to a beloved daughter ('uth meri pyari beti, rajdulari beti'), it carries the film's domestic warmth in Prabhat's gentle, sarangi-tinged idiom. Its singer credit is not documented in the sources consulted.

The waking song — a song addressed to someone beloved as they sleep, urging them to rise — is one of the most intimate lyric forms in the Indian tradition, appearing in both devotional (the prabhatiya, or dawn-bhajan) and domestic registers. Pandit Sudarshan's lyric for 'Uth Meri Pyari Beti' draws on the domestic prabhatiya: the gentle imperative 'uth' (rise) addressed to a daughter with terms of endearment — 'pyari' (dear), 'rajdulari' (darling of the house) — makes the act of waking into an act of love. The diminutives and honorifics pile up in the service of affection: 'rajdulari' literally means 'one who is dear to the king', a hyperbolic compliment that makes the child feel like royalty within the domestic sphere. Master Krishnarao's musical setting, with sarangi and harmonium, would have given the song the gentle, rounded quality characteristic of Prabhat's domestically-set numbers. The song's context within a film about communal harmony adds resonance: the love between parent and child, performed here, is the model for the broader love between neighbours that the film mourns.

Padosi (1941) was directed by V. Shantaram, produced by Prabhat Film Company of Poona, and was the last film Shantaram made for Prabhat before founding his own studio Rajkamal Kalamandir. The film — a bilingual in Hindi and Marathi — told the story of two neighbours, Mirza (Gajanan Jagirdar, a Hindu playing a Muslim) and Thakur (Mazhar Khan, a Muslim playing a Hindu), whose lifelong friendship is destroyed by a city contractor using communal divide-and-rule tactics. Master Krishnarao scored the film; Pandit Sudarshan wrote the Hindi lyrics and dialogues. The singer roster included Krishnarao, Anees Khatoon, Balwant Singh, Balakram, Gopal, and Mulia. 'Uth Meri Pyari Beti' — sung by Anees Khatoon and Balwant Singh — is a tender waking song addressed to a beloved daughter (beti). Its full title runs 'Uth Mori Pyari Beti Rajdulari Beti', casting the daughter as the household's most cherished gem. This domestic warmth sits in the film's larger context of communal affection: Padosi is fundamentally a film about the fragility of bonds of neighbourly love.

Padosi (1941) is remembered as one of V. Shantaram's major achievements and one of Hindi cinema's earliest and most powerful statements about communal harmony. The film holds an IMDb rating of 8.1. As Prabhat's last film by Shantaram before Rajkamal Kalamandir, it marks a historical hinge point. 'Uth Meri Pyari Beti' has circulated within the film's digitised catalogue on archival platforms, accessible to researchers of Prabhat Film Company output and fans of pre-Partition Hindi cinema's domestic song tradition.