दीवानियत

Deewaniyat is the title song and emotional centrepiece of Ek Deewane Ki Deewaniyat (2025, Play DMF), a 4:17 solo by Vishal Mishra with lyrics by Kunaal Vermaa and composition by the duo Kaushik-Guddu. The film — directed by Milap Zaveri and starring Harshvardhan Rane and Sonam Bajwa — became one of 2025's surprise box office successes, grossing ₹112 crore worldwide despite negative critical reception. The title song establishes the film's central emotional register: the fine and terrifying line between deep love and dangerous obsession.

Kaushik-Guddu build Deewaniyat around a piano-forward arrangement with swelling strings — a sonic architecture that suggests the gathering intensity of obsessive love. Vishal Mishra, who has become one of 2025's most versatile playback singers, brings a controlled urgency to the performance that suits the film's central tension between love and possession. The song also exists in an 'Unplugged' version that strips away the production layers, confirming the strength of the underlying melody.

Kunaal Vermaa's lyric for Deewaniyat walks a deliberate tonal line — the language of devotion ('deewaniyat', 'ishq') but with an undertone of possession that reflects the film's morally complex protagonist. The Urdu-Hindi vocabulary of obsessive love allows the song to feel romantic on first listen and slightly unsettling on closer attention.

Ek Deewane Ki Deewaniyat was Milap Zaveri's second directorial venture after Satyameva Jayate 2 (2021). Despite receiving predominantly negative reviews for its problematic depiction of obsessive love, the film found a massive audience — particularly in mass circuits — making it the 12th highest-grossing Hindi film of 2025. The Diwali release timing (October 21) contributed to its commercial performance.

Deewaniyat will be remembered as the title song of one of 2025's most commercially successful-but-critically-divisive Hindi films — a film that provoked significant public debate about the romanticisation of obsession and possession in Bollywood.