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and Sonia Mann. The song was sung by Reshammiya and Ranu Mondal. The song was composed by Reshammiya, while its lyrics were penned by Shabbir Ahmed. The song was released on 11 September 2019.

Background

Ranu Mondal was a busker at railway station in West Bengal, was noticed by a passenger Atanu Chakraborty who shoot a video of her covering

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's "EK Pyaar Ka Nagma" and posted it on social media. Within a few days it went viral, being viewed more than 2.5 million times across various social platform and she was appreciated for her voice. Soon after being viral she was invited to music reality show '' Superstar Singer'', where Reshammiya, one of the judges of the show, listening her voice, being impressed offered her a song for the film '' Happy Hardy and Heer''.

Music video

The music video featured Himesh Reshammiya and Sonia Mann from the film and Ranu Mondal while singing at HR Musik Studio. The video starts with Reshammiya, telling the lines ''"

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ki rakhwali karte karte chowkidar ko yeh lagne lag jatahe ki Taj Mahal uski property hain, magar papers toh Shah Jahan ke hi naam hain na."''(literally, After working as a guard for Taj Mahal for days, the guardman imagines it to be his own property, but actually

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is already credited for it.)

Release

On 22 August 2019, Reshammiya posted a short video of recording the song with Mondal on his

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account which was viewed more than 4 lakh (400,000) times within an hour and earned almost 1 million views on his Instagram account. On 10 September 2019, a one-minute teaser was released and a day after on 11 September, the full song was premiered which was viewed more than 500,000 times within an hour of release and was trending on #1 on

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. On 6 April 2020, a full version video song was released on YouTube by Tips Music.

Remix

A remix by DJ Akbar Sami was also released on 19 December 2019. The remix version includes alaaps by

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Personnel

Song credits from YouTube video: * Singer: Himesh Reshammiya & Ranu Mondal * Music: Himesh Reshammiya * Lyrics: Shabbir Ahmed * Music Programmer: Aditya Dev * Himesh Reshammiya's Team: Suhas Parab, Subhash Parab, Priyesh Vakil, Sakar Apte, Pratik Panchal & Barzin Contractor. * Aditya Dev's Music Assistant: Gaurav Singh * Sound Engineers: Salman Shaikh and Anudutt Shamain at HR Musik Studio * Mixed and Mastered by Salman Shaikh at HR Musik Studio * HR Musik Creative Team: Rajendra Toraskar, Rahul Sheth & Prakash Serrao. * Guitarist: Vivek Verma

Reception

The song was warmly received by audiences and praised by critics. It also became the second most searched song and most searched Hindi song on

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in 2019. Soon, after the release, the song was trending on

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and it was hashatagged more than 80 million times on that platform. Mondal collaborated with Reshammiya on two other soundtrack songs named "Aadat" and "Aashiqui Mein Teri 2.0", the latter being a remade song from Reshammiya's previous musical film ''

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References

{{Himesh Reshammiya 2019 songs Songs written for Hindi-language films Indian songs Songs in Hindi Songs with lyrics by Shabbir Ahmed (lyricist)