तिरंगा

Tiranga (तिरंगा) is the patriotic anthem from Yodha (2024), sung by B Praak, written by Manoj Muntashir, and composed by Tanishk Bagchi. Released on 11 March 2024, four days ahead of the film's theatrical debut, the song accompanies the film's hijack-rescue plot and invokes the Himalayas and the Ganga in tribute to the Indian tricolor flag. Yodha stars Sidharth Malhotra as Major Arun Katyal alongside Raashii Khanna and Disha Patani, produced by Dharma Productions and Amazon MGM Studios (Prime Video) in association with Mentor Disciple Entertainment. While the film itself underperformed at the box office, Tiranga found a life of its own as a standalone patriotic anthem, drawing tens of millions of views across its official releases — particularly around Independence Day and Republic Day.

Tanishk Bagchi — one of contemporary Bollywood's most prolific composers for large-scale patriotic and celebratory anthems — built Tiranga around a rising, orchestral-leaning arrangement designed for anthem-scale delivery, paired with B Praak's powerful, emotive vocal style that has become a signature of his patriotic and devotional recordings. The production favours a steady build from restrained verses to a full-throated hook, a structure common to Bagchi's other large-format national-pride tracks.

Manoj Muntashir's lyric draws on classical imagery of Indian patriotic poetry — the Himalayas touching the sky, the Ganga flowing eternal — building toward the song's central image of the tricolor flying so high that it kisses the stars ('Jhoome Tiranga, taaron ko choome Tiranga'). The verse structure keeps to plain, declarative devotion rather than narrative complexity, in the tradition of mass-anthem patriotic lyric writing meant for collective, chant-like recall.

Yodha (2024) is an action-thriller directed by Sagar Ambre and Pushkar Ojha, produced by Hiroo Yash Johar, Karan Johar, Apoorva Mehta and Shashank Khaitan under Dharma Productions, in association with Amazon MGM Studios (Prime Video) and Mentor Disciple Entertainment. The film stars Sidharth Malhotra as Major Arun Katyal, an army officer entangled in a hijack-rescue mission, alongside Raashii Khanna and Disha Patani. Tiranga was released as a promotional single on 11 March 2024, four days ahead of the film's 15 March 2024 theatrical release, aligning the patriotic anthem with the film's hijack-rescue narrative. The film arrived after multiple postponements dating back to July 2023.

Yodha proved a commercial disappointment, collecting around ₹52 crore against a ₹55 crore budget, with mixed critical reviews — Rotten Tomatoes recorded 58% approval from 12 critics (average 4.8/10), while Indian outlets ranged from Bollywood Hungama's 3/5 to NDTV's 1.5/5. Tiranga, however, built its own audience independent of the film's theatrical fortunes: its official 'Song' release alone crossed 18 million YouTube views, with the full-video edit adding a further 35 million-plus, and the track continues to resurface as a patriotic-anthem pick around Independence Day and Republic Day — outlasting the film's modest theatrical run.