Bhimsen Joshi having a lot of fun, signing this very famous composition in Raga Yaman.

It is a drut bandish – drut (fast tempo), and bandish (literally a composition that is relatively fixed).  I have, in my collection somewhere, the same bandish sung by a much younger Bhimsen Joshi – that performance was seductive. The song is about a woman in the throes of longing for her piya ( lover or beloved  ) . Bhimsen Joshi with his deep baritone voice singing a part that is about the pangs of longing felt by a woman, is quite outstanding.

This is a version by Lata Mangeshkar

And, this is a very different variation of the same bandish – Abida Parveen