His Legacy: "Babul Mora" Thumri
His Bhairavi thumri "Babul Mora Naihar Chhooto Jaay has been sung by several prominent singers, but the version most remembered is by Kundan Lal Saigal for the 1930s movie Street Singer.
In a strange manner this sad song epitomises the pain and agony of the poet king himself when he was exiled from his beloved Lucknow.
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