बिजूरिया

'Bijuria' is the defining party anthem of 2025 — a Tanishk Bagchi reimagining of Ravi Pawar's 1999 hit from the album Mausam, featuring Sonu Nigam and Asees Kaur for Shashank Khaitan's Sunny Sanskari Ki Tulsi Kumari (Dharma Music). With lyrics updated from Ajay Jhingran's original by Tanishk Bagchi, the song ranked #6 on Rolling Stone India's Top 25 Bollywood Songs of 2025: 'loud, chaotic, hooky, and impossible to sit through without moving.' The Spotify Shazam credit identifies it as by Tanishk Bagchi, Sonu Nigam, Ravi Pawar, and Asees Kaur — the original composer receiving co-credit in the new version.

Tanishk Bagchi's production for 'Bijuria' layers the original's folk melody over contemporary dhol-synth production, amplifying the song's inherent danceability while retaining the earworm quality that made it a late-90s hit. Sonu Nigam's voice — which can simultaneously sound both classically trained and vernacularly earthy — is perfectly calibrated for this register, neither too polished nor too rough. Asees Kaur's answer vocals match his energy without competing, while Ravi Pawar's presence in the credits acknowledges the song's DNA honestly.

Ajay Jhingran's original 1999 lyric drew on the 'bijuria' (lightning, electric spark) as a metaphor for the electric quality of the beloved's presence — a figure common in Rajasthani folk poetry. Tanishk Bagchi's additions update the imagery without abandoning the folk root, adding contemporary slang references that land in the present while the melody keeps one foot in 1999.

Ravi Pawar's 1999 'Bijuria' was a regional-pop phenomenon, particularly popular at Punjab and Haryana weddings. Tanishk Bagchi had been familiar with the song from his childhood and proposed the recreation to Shashank Khaitan when looking for a track that could function as Sunny Sanskari Ki Tulsi Kumari's mass-entertainment centrepiece.

Rolling Stone India's description of 'Bijuria' — 'the definitive party anthem of 2025' — proved accurate: the song's hook-step (choreographed for Varun Dhawan) went viral on Instagram Reels weeks before the film's October release, generating enormous pre-release momentum. Wedding DJs across India added it to their standard sets within weeks.