ऐसा मैं शैतान

Aisa Main Shaitaan (ऐसा मैं शैतान) is the aggressive rap villain-theme from Shaitaan (2024), performed by Raftaar with music by Amit Trivedi and lyrics by Kumaar. Released as a promotional single on 29 February 2024 — eight days ahead of the film's 8 March 2024 theatrical release — the track gives musical voice to R. Madhavan's antagonist Vanraj Kashyap, a tantrik-hypnotist who bends his victims' minds to his will. Built on a hip-hop chassis of programmed beats and bass, the song's chant-like hook, 'aisa main shaitaan' ('such a devil am I'), turns the villain's menace into a repeatable, high-energy anthem, part of Shaitaan's promotional rollout alongside 'Khushiyaan Bator Lo' and the film's title theme.

Amit Trivedi, who composed Shaitaan's entire soundtrack, builds Aisa Main Shaitaan around a hip-hop foundation of programmed beats, bass, and synth stabs, leaving space for Raftaar's clipped, percussive delivery to carry the menace. Rather than a conventional filmi melody, the track leans into rap cadence and a repeated four-word hook, 'aisa main shaitaan', designed to land as a chant rather than a sung line — giving the antagonist's theme a contemporary, trailer-music intensity distinct from the soundtrack's more melodic tracks like 'Khushiyaan Bator Lo' and 'Papa Tu Hai Na'.

Kumaar's lyric strips the villain-song down to a single boastful refrain — the devil isn't described so much as self-declared, repeating 'aisa main shaitaan' ('such a devil am I') as both threat and identity. Lines like 'jadu hai zubaan, vash mein kar loon jaan' ('my words are magic, I can bring your very life under my control') build the character's menace through blunt assertion rather than narrative — poetry written to be rapped as a threat, not sung as a story.

Shaitaan (2024), directed by Vikas Bahl, is a Hindi remake of the 2023 Gujarati horror hit Vash, produced by Devgn Films, Jio Studios and Panorama Studios. Ajay Devgn plays Kabir Rishi, a father whose family's highway rest-stop is invaded by Vanraj Kashyap (R. Madhavan) — a tantrik who hypnotizes Kabir's daughter Janhvi (Janki Bodiwala, reprising her role from the original Vash) and bends her to his control. Aisa Main Shaitaan was released on 29 February 2024, eight days before the film hit theatres, as a standalone rap theme built around Vanraj's character rather than a song any actor lip-syncs on screen — a promotional device to establish the villain's menace ahead of release.

As a promotional villain-theme rather than a chart-driving single, Aisa Main Shaitaan's impact is tied closely to Shaitaan's own success: the film went on to become one of Hindi cinema's biggest hits of 2024, grossing over ₹200 crore worldwide, with R. Madhavan's performance as Vanraj widely praised by critics. The song's official video has drawn over 19 million YouTube views, and it remains a distinctive entry in Amit Trivedi's 2024 filmography for pairing a mainstream rap star with a horror-thriller's antagonist theme rather than a romantic or celebratory number.