गलियाँ छोड़ चले

The longest track on the Ajey soundtrack at seven minutes, 'Galiyaan Chhod Chale' is B Praak's emotional contribution to the biopic of Yogi Adityanath. Composed by Meet Bros with lyrics by Jashar Singh and Sangita Singhh, the song depicts the departure of the young protagonist from his native Himalayan village. B Praak's voice, known for its raw emotional power in songs like 'Filhaal' and 'Mann Bharrya', brings weight to a farewell that the film frames as a spiritual calling rather than mere ambition.

At seven minutes, 'Galiyaan Chhod Chale' has space that most Bollywood songs of 2025 don't allow themselves. Meet Bros use the runtime wisely: a sparse piano opening, gradual introduction of strings, and B Praak's voice doing the heavy lifting through most of the track before a fuller orchestral arrangement arrives in the final two minutes. The restraint serves the emotional arc — it is a departure song, and it feels like one, unhurried, looking back.

The lyric builds its emotional weight from the specific and concrete — galiyaan (the lanes), ghar-dwaar (house and gate), maa ki mamata (mother's love) — before moving to the abstract of a calling and a destination. This movement from the intimate-particular to the large-abstract is the structural logic of the best farewell songs in Hindi film, and Jashar Singh and Sangita Singhh execute it with genuine craft.

B Praak's involvement in a BJP-aligned biopic extended his reach into a politically sympathetic audience that already constitutes a large part of his fanbase in UP and Uttarakhand. At seven minutes, the song is unusual in the 2025 commercial film landscape — a runtime more associated with album tracks or Punjabi devotional ballads than Bollywood film songs.

B Praak's remarkable run of emotional Punjabi-Hindi ballads across the 2020s — 'Filhaal', 'Mann Bharrya', 'Sahiba' — finds a companion in 'Galiyaan Chhod Chale', a song whose length and emotional ambition exceed the political film it was made for.