This ghazal has been used in songs in many other Hindi films, including "Woh Kaun" (1935), "Sarla" (1936), "Bhole Bhale" (1939), "Toote Tare" (1948), "Lal Qilla" (1960), "Noor-E-Elahi" (1976), and "Shararat" (2002). In all these instances, the lyrics were either not attributed to anyone or were credited to Bahadur Shah Zafar, the last Mughal emperor. However, according to poet and lyricist Jan Nisar Akhtar, the ghazal was written by his father Muztar Khairabadi. His son and Khairabadi's grandson, Javed Akhtar, has also echoed this claim. The current consensus among Urdu scholars is that it was Muztar Khairabadi who wrote the ghazal.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8]
