फ़र्ज़ी दुनिया

Farzi Duniya (फ़र्ज़ी दुनिया) is the most emotionally weighted of the Dhak Dhak (2023) soundtrack's ballads, composed by Rishi Dutta with lyrics by Kundan Vidyarthi and sung by Shruti Pathak and Shivangi Bhayana. The production credits — Siddharth Pandit and Rishi Dutta as music producers, Alok Kulkarni on guitars, Rajat and Rajeev Prasanna on flute, and Megha Rawoot on sitar — give the track a fuller, more classically textured arrangement than the soundtrack's other, sparer numbers. Released by Zee Music Company alongside the film's 13 October 2023 theatrical premiere, the song's title phrase — 'fake world' — questions the illusions and broken paths its narrator confronts, fitting the introspective, disillusioned register of Dhak Dhak's story about women reckoning with the lives they've been living.

Rishi Dutta's composition for Farzi Duniya leans into a fuller acoustic-classical palette than much of the Dhak Dhak soundtrack, with Rajat and Rajeev Prasanna's flute and Megha Rawoot's sitar giving the arrangement a reflective, semi-classical undertone beneath Alok Kulkarni's guitar work. Shruti Pathak and Shivangi Bhayana's paired vocals move between solo and shared lines, building the song's sense of a shared disillusionment rather than a single narrator's complaint.

Kundan Vidyarthi's lyric leans on stark, fractured imagery — something 'broken within itself,' 'markerless paths,' 'shattered stars' — to build the song's central accusation against a 'farzi duniya' (fake world) that offers no reliable direction. The repeated questioning of what a broken world can still offer gives the song its melancholic, searching tone, distinct from the more hopeful, forward-looking numbers elsewhere on the soundtrack.

Dhak Dhak follows Mahi (Ratna Pathak Shah), Uzma (Dia Mirza), Sky (Fatima Sana Shaikh) and Manjari 'Lali' (Sanjana Sanghi) on a motorbike journey to Khardung La, produced by Viacom18 Studios with Outsiders Films and BLM Pictures under Tarun Dudeja's direction. Farzi Duniya scores one of the film's more introspective, lower moments, its questioning of an illusory 'fake world' aligning with the characters confronting the gap between the lives they've settled for and the freedom they're chasing on the road.

Farzi Duniya has not generated significant chart activity or viral reach, remaining one of the Dhak Dhak soundtrack's more understated deep cuts rather than a marketed lead single. Its relative obscurity is reflected in its modest official YouTube view count compared to the film's more promoted tracks, though its fuller classical instrumentation (flute, sitar) marks it as one of the album's more musically ambitious arrangements.