पुकारूँ हरी ओम

Pukaroon Hari Om (पुकारूँ हरी ओम) is the devotional centerpiece of The Great Indian Family (2023), composed by Pritam with lyrics by Amitabh Bhattacharya and sung by veteran playback singer Sonu Nigam. Set within Vijay Krishna Acharya's comedy-drama about Ved Vyas Tripathi (Vicky Kaushal), a small-town bhajan singer known as 'Bhajan Kumar,' the track departs from the film's comic tone established by its lead single Kanhaiya Twitter Pe Aaja to deliver a genuine, classically-rooted bhajan of surrender and longing for divine guidance. Released by YRF Music as part of the film's soundtrack ahead of its 22 September 2023 theatrical release, the song leans on Nigam's expressive, classically-trained vocal to carry its prayerful mood — a quieter, sincere counterpoint that grounds the film's central themes of faith and identity.

Pritam builds Pukaroon Hari Om around a traditional bhajan structure — a slow, meditative tempo, sparse arrangement, and melodic phrasing rooted in devotional folk and classical idioms rather than contemporary film-pop convention. Sonu Nigam's rendition brings his classically-trained restraint and emotive control to the fore, letting the composition breathe rather than reaching for dramatic vocal flourishes, in keeping with the song's prayerful, introspective character.

Amitabh Bhattacharya's lyric draws on classical bhakti-poetry vocabulary — words like 'sirjanhaar' (the creator) and the image of being adrift in 'majhdhaar' (mid-stream) without divine guidance — to frame a plea for Hari Om's presence through life's uncertain journey. The writing eschews the wordplay and contemporary references of the film's comic songs, instead reaching for a timeless, sincere register appropriate to a genuine devotional invocation.

The Great Indian Family follows Ved Vyas Tripathi (Vicky Kaushal), a small-town bhajan singer beloved by his community as 'Bhajan Kumar,' whose life is upended by a revelation about his own religious identity, forcing questions of faith, belonging, and family across the film's narrative. Directed by Vijay Krishna Acharya and produced by Yash Raj Films, the film released theatrically on 22 September 2023. Pukaroon Hari Om, voiced by Sonu Nigam rather than the film's comic lead single singer Nakash Aziz, serves as the emotional anchor for Ved Vyas's genuine devotional identity — the sincere bhajan tradition his character represents, beneath the film's lighter surface comedy.

Pukaroon Hari Om did not chart as prominently as the film's comic lead single, but it stands as the soundtrack's devotional anchor, valued by listeners for Sonu Nigam's classically-rooted rendition within a soundtrack otherwise built around comic, contemporary hooks. It represents Pritam and Amitabh Bhattacharya's continuing ability to pair genuine bhajan-tradition songwriting with mainstream Hindi film soundtracks.