Dard e dil tu hee bataa
Posted on: January 13, 2026
This article is written by Mahesh Mamadapur, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a contributor to this blog. This article is meant to be posted in atulsongaday.me. If this article appears in other sites without the knowledge and consent of the web administrator of atulsongaday.me, then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.
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Naa to kaarwaan ki talaash hai,
naa to hamsafar ki talaash hai
Clickbait?
Not really.
The above qawwali couplet from Barsaat ki Raat (1960) is quite viral these days. This post is however on the genius music director who composed the well-known qawwali.
Roshan Lal.
I have provided the qawwali link above, so that readers can enrich their knowledge regarding the origins and making of the popular number. There are many comments by knowledge readers in the article which give a lot of information.
And, as is my habit, here is a digression.
The word “Ishq” is used 191 times in the aforesaid qawwali.
This is higher than the usage of the word “Jap” 151 times by Mukesh in Shaarda (1957) under C. Ramchandra.
Do these songs stand at Number 1 and 2 as far as number of times the same word is used in the song? I am not so sure and would request readers to correct me in case I am wrong in my assumption.
Well, enough beating about the bush. So, what am I up to in this post?
I take back readers to my post, Mukesh and his Composers – 9, wherein I covered all the songs that Mukesh sang for Roshan. It was nothing short of a heist as Mukesh had uttered only 2-3 words in the triad and I had converted it into a full-blown Mukesh post. I was helpless as all other songs of the duo had already been posted.
Here is a reproduction of a para from my post.
There have been many a great associations in film industry. However, the one of Mukesh and Roshan not only stands tall but also quiet apart. I say this because there were childhood friends and acquaintances much before either of them joined films. Many websites claim that they studied in the same class at school. However, Roshan was born 6 years before Mukesh and so I personally feel that he could have been his senior and not classmate. The life of Roshan with reference to when he completed his matriculation and what exactly he did before 1949 is not very clearly documented. That he received a lot of training is however well known. I request knowledge readers to throw some light on this aspect regarding his timeline before 1949.
Recently, while reading the wiki page on Roshan, I came across the following,
In 1940, Khawaja Khurshid Anwar, programme producer/music, All India Radio Delhi, hired Roshan as staff artist for esraj, the instrument he used to play. He gave up this job in 1948 to seek fame and fortune in Bombay.
In 1948, Roshan came to Bombay to find work as a Hindi film music director and became assistant of music composer Khawaja Khurshid Anwar in film Singaar (1949). He somewhat struggled until he met the producer-director Kidar Sharma, who gave him the job of composing for his film Neki Aur Badi (1949), a film co-produced by Munshiram Varma and distributed by Varma Films. While this film was a flop, Kidar Sharma gave him another chance in his next film. Roshan emerged as a player on the Hindi film music scene with Baawre Nain (1950) which became a big musical hit.
The above information on wiki page is from Pran Neville’s article and can be found here.
So, Roshan seems to have discontinued studies in 1940, the same period Mukesh went to Bombay to debut as actor-singer in Nirdosh (1941) opposite none other than Nalini Jaywant. Thus, it does appear that Mukesh and Roshan were indeed classmates. However, it is noted that Roshan was 6 years older than Mukesh in age.
Suffice to cover in this post, there is some clarity regarding Roshan’s whereabouts from 1940 to 1948. This aspect was not known to self when I wrote my previous post on Mukesh-Roshan a decade back. Maybe, I had overlooked this aspect on wiki or possibly it is newly added.
I had also keenly watched the first episode on Netflix on Roshans but could not get confirmation on these aspects. I did not watch the second part as I was disappointed with the coverage given to one of my favourite composers. It started moving towards his sons and grandson and I wanted more on Roshan saab himself.
So, it appears that Khurshid Anwar who recruited Roshan in Delhi AIR, came to Bombay in early 40s, Roshan continued to work in Delhi.
The following aspects about Roshan are well known, but I repeat the same in bullet points.
• He got his first film Neki aur Badi (1949) as an independent composer from Kidar Sharma.
• The film and its music flopped badly. Amirbai Karnataki and Feroz Dastur have an interesting duet in the film.
• He used Mukesh for one solo and two duets in his second film Bawre Nain (1950), a musical hit.
• Mohd. Rafi has a rather insignificant duet with Asha Bhosale in Roshan’s second film. Thereafter, Rafi is missing in nearly a dozen films of Roshan wherein Mukesh and Talat Mahmood were his main male singers. We all know Rafi saab’s hits in his latter films.
• When Mukesh produced Malhar (1951), the music was entrusted to Roshan. The film had 3 solos each by Lata and Mukesh and 3 duets.
• Over his career, he became famous for composition of several Qawwalis and use of Hindustani classical music.
• Under him, Indeewar and Anand Bakshi got their first break as Lyricists.
• He won his only Filmfare’s Best Music Director Award for Taj Mahal (1963).
• Born in 1917, he passed away in 1967 during the making of the film Anokhi Raat (1968) at the age of just 50.
• Mukesh sang two solos in his last film whereas Rafi had one solo.
• Incidentally, Rafi’s solo in his last film is the first song on this popular blog.
• The second song to be posted on this blog is also under Roshan by Mukesh in another film Dil Hi Tho Hai (1963).
Coming to today’s post, I have no particular song in mind, but a lot of Lata’s solos under Roshan are a personal favourite of mine.
I have managed to trace a very good sad song by Lata Mangeshkar from the film Jashn (1953).
Strangely, only one song from this film has been covered on the blog so far. I suppose all 8-9 songs of this film are available on the net.
Here is Lata Mangeshkar in her honey-dipped voice rendering this sad solo for Roshan Lal.
I am sure readers will love this song.
Youtube Link:
Song-Dard e dil tu hee bata (Jashn)(1955) Sing-Lata, Lyricist-Rajinder Krishn, MD-Roshan
Lyrics
dard e dil tu hee bata
ye kaisee gham kee shaam hai
is jahaan mein kya wafa ka
bewafaai naam hai
kya bewafai naam hai
dard e dil tu hee bata
ye kaisee gham kee shaam hai
is jahaan mein kya wafa ka
bewafaai naam hai
kya bewafai naam hai
jis khushee ne pehle pehle
dil ko baksha thha karaar
dil ko baksha thha karaar
jis khushee ne pehle pehle
dil ko baksha thha karaar
dil ko baksha thha karaar
ae gham e dil
us khushee ka
kya yahee anjaam hai
is jahaan mein kya wafa ka
bewafaai naam hai
kya bewafaai naam hai
ae hawa
usse ye kehna
aajkal tere baghair
aajkal tere bagair
ae hawa
usse ye kehna
aajkal tere baghair
aajkal tere baghair
saans bhee lena hamaare vaaste ilzaam hai
is jahaan mein kya wafa ka
bewafaai naam hai
kya bewafaai naam hai
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January 13, 2026 at 1:04 pm
Mahesh Ji
Thanks for the post. Nice write up on Roshan.
I have not heard about this movie or this song.But song has good appeal.
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