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Among the best-remembered songs of Aage Kadam (1943) and one rendered by Motilal in his own voice. The premise — 'woh roothe hue hai, manana padega' (the beloved is sulking, she must be won back) — is the classic Hindi-cinema manaana (placation) song, here carried by the actor's own plain, sincere delivery rather than a trained playback voice.

Set within the joint Madhavlal Damodar Master and Ramchandra Pal score, the tune is a slow, coaxing romantic melody with the restrained harmonium-and-strings backing of the period; the arrangement deliberately stays soft so Motilal's conversational, untrained baritone can carry the pleading sentiment of the manaana.