बचपन की गलियाँ

Bachpan Ki Galiyan (बचपन की गलियाँ) is a track from the soundtrack of Goldfish (2023), Pushan Kripalani's drama starring Kalki Koechlin and Deepti Naval, about a daughter reconnecting with her mother after a dementia diagnosis. Composed and produced by Tapas Relia under his Sufiscore banner with lyrics by Kausar Munir, the song is sung by Madhubanti Bagchi and released on 19 August 2023 alongside the rest of the EP. Built around the imagery of home, childhood lanes, and small remembered details like silver toe-rings, the song functions as a musical extension of the film's central theme — the pull of memory and the search for reconciliation with one's past.

Tapas Relia keeps the arrangement understated, giving Madhubanti Bagchi's warm, folk-tinged vocals room to carry the song's nostalgic weight without heavy orchestration. As with the rest of the Goldfish soundtrack, the production favours an intimate, acoustic-leaning palette over conventional Bollywood soundtrack polish — part of the raag-rooted scoring approach that earned Relia a Filmfare nomination for Best Background Score.

Kausar Munir's lyric leans on small, tactile images of home — silver toe-rings, remembered lanes — to summon a childhood that exists now only in memory. The opening line 'pairon mein de ke, chandi ke bichuye haaye' (having put on silver toe-rings) grounds an abstract feeling of nostalgia in a specific, sensory detail, a technique typical of Munir's writing for reflective, character-driven soundtracks.

Goldfish tells the story of Anamika (Kalki Koechlin), who returns to her childhood home after her mother Sadhana (Deepti Naval), a former classical singer, is diagnosed with dementia — the film moves between present-day reconciliation and buried memories of growing up. Bachpan Ki Galiyan, released as part of the soundtrack EP on 19 August 2023 ahead of the film's 25 August theatrical release, gives musical voice to exactly this pull between past and present that anchors the film's narrative.

As part of a soundtrack that helped Goldfish earn a 93% Rotten Tomatoes score from critics and a Filmfare Best Background Score nomination for Tapas Relia, Bachpan Ki Galiyan is a quieter, arthouse-adjacent entry in 2023's Hindi music landscape — not a chart hit, but a track that has found a niche audience through the film's festival and critical circuit, including its European premiere at the Raindance Film Festival.