यहाँ फाड़ के खा जाता है

A song from the 1941 social drama Masoom, composed by Munshi Mubarak Hussain. The vivid, almost cautionary imagery of its title hints at a satirical or dramatic situational number within the film. The recording is now scarce, and the singer for this number is not documented in the standard catalogues.

The phrase 'phad ke khana' (to tear and eat) deploys the most visceral register of colloquial Hindi — the language of predators and raw conflict, not the softened Urdu of the period's typical love songs. In a film-song context, this hyperbolic violence functions as social satire or dramatic warning: the 'it' that devours is an abstraction — city, fate, injustice, the exploitative social system — made concrete through the predator image. The directness of the vernacular Hindi, avoiding Urdu sophistication, marks this as a number deliberately placed in the spoken-language register to communicate urgency and danger without poetic distance. Social-message songs in 1940s Hindi cinema increasingly used this direct vernacular to reach audiences who responded more to the spoken word's bluntness than to the ghazal's cultivated indirection.

Masoom (1941) was a social drama featuring Amjad, Ramola, Mazhar Khan, Mahtab, Anees, and Khwaja Sabir, with music by Munshi Mubarak Hussain. The vivid, almost aggressive imagery of 'Yaha Phad Ke Kha Jata Hai' — 'here it tears you to pieces and devours you' — places this song at the dramatic or satirical end of the film's soundtrack, in contrast to the celebratory number ('Gaao Mubarak Bad Ri Mai') also catalogued for the same film. The target of the lyric's imagery — what exactly 'tears and devours' — is most likely society, poverty, exploitation, or the city; such hyperbolically violent metaphors in 1940s social drama songs typically targeted systemic injustice rather than personal adversaries. The recording is not accessible in surviving audio archives, and the singer is not documented.