Galliyan

Galliyan () is a romantic Hindi song from the Hindi film, ''Ek Villain''. Composed by Ankit Tiwari, the song is sung by Tiwari himself, with lyrics penned by Manoj Muntashir. The music video of the track features actors Sidharth Malhotra and Shraddha Kapoor.
A revised version of the song is created for its spiritual sequel for the 2022 film, '' Ek Villain Returns'' titled "Galliyan Returns". The music video of the track is picturised on lead couples John Abraham and Disha Patani also Arjun Kapoor and Tara Sutaria. Ankit Tiwari again sang and composed for the revised version and lyrics was written by Manoj Muntashir.

Background

Mohit Suri outlined a situation to Ankit Tiwari stating about the picturisation they had been planning, including the butterflies and the underwater shot. Suri told Tiwari that song does not have an element of sadness. During an 'evening stroll' Tiwari was thinking about it, when the introductory verse penned by Manoj Muntashir 'floated' into his mind, which he stated "The words are simple, direct and straight from the heart, the thoughts so pure. I found myself humming the verse as I walked around my building's compound. For me the toughest part is composing the mukhda and the punchline. Once that's done, the antaras flow. By the time I went up to my apartment, I had the song playing in my mind".

Back home, Tiwari 'fine-tuned' the composition and arranged it on his keyboard. The next day, he sent it across to Suri, which he liked instantly. On recording the composition, Tiwari was selected to playback for the song. Tiwari stated that the emotion expressed in the song is young, immature love, and felt it easy to express as everyone has gone through that phase. Though he found it difficult to compose since it is a 'soothing song in a film which was the love story of a villain'. The song was recorded in February 2014.

In composition of the song, it starts off on an unplugged note but gets dominated by electric guitar with some soft orchestra. The song shifts gears towards the latter part where the flute and violin are used. The song mostly shows beautiful landscapes and focuses on the scenic beauty. While shooting the track, Sidharth Malhotra and Shraddha Kapoor had to camp on the top of a hill for hours to capture a shot with a moodypeacock, which took long to open its wings.

Picturization for the song was proceeded a month after the recording of the song. The song was shot in Goa and Mauritius. The underwater shot of the song was completed in seven hours. The production team sent French divers to carry oxygen cylinders for Kapoor and Malhotra. Both Kapoor and Malhotra took special training in Scuba diving from Anees Adenwala, who was their chief scuba diving instructor. The song was choreographed by Raju Singh. Talking about the picturisation of the song, Suri stated "The song is about everything a man would do for a woman whom he's hopelessly in love with. He fulfills all her wishes – dancing with butterflies, holding stars in her palms, going underwater, touching the first snow and more". The song has a sequence of snowfall which was actually shot at a bungalow on the outskirts of Mumbai, on one of the hottest days of the schedule. In the video, Kapoor is seen riding a Royal Enfield

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