मांगे मंज़ूरियाँ (मेल वर्शन)

Maange Manzooriyan (Male Version) (मांगे मंज़ूरियाँ) is the male-voiced counterpart to the same song recorded for Badhaai Do (2022), Harshavardhan Kulkarni's comedy-drama about a gay police officer and a lesbian PE teacher who enter a marriage of convenience. Composed by Khamosh Shah with lyrics by Azeem Shirazi, this version is sung by playback vocalist Abhay Jodhpurkar, sharing the exact same melody, lyric and mukhda as Maalavika Manoj's female rendition released alongside it. Part of the film's 13-track Zee Music Company soundtrack released on 1 February 2022, the male version reached a notably smaller YouTube audience than its female counterpart — a common pattern for mirrored dual-gender Bollywood songs, where one version typically becomes the more widely circulated 'official' take.

Khamosh Shah's arrangement for the male version mirrors the female rendition closely, giving Abhay Jodhpurkar's smoother, restrained playback voice the same soft, mid-tempo bed of instrumentation. Rather than reworking the song for a different mood, the production treats both gendered recordings as parallel takes on one composition — a straightforward but effective way of letting listeners choose the voice that resonates with them.

The lyric is identical to the female version — Azeem Shirazi's image of a heart with little windows and a pair of shy, restless eyes peeking through — with the male perspective simply reframing the same admission of bashful attraction and the same plea for 'permissions' rather than a bold declaration of love.

Badhaai Do follows Shardul (Rajkummar Rao) and Sumi (Bhumi Pednekar) through their marriage of convenience while they separately love Kabir (Gulshan Devaiah) and Rimjhim (Chum Darang). Produced by Junglee Pictures for Zee Studios and released theatrically on 11 February 2022, the film's soundtrack included this male-sung take on Maange Manzooriyan as a companion piece to the female version, both drawn from the same composition by Khamosh Shah.

Compared with its female counterpart, the male version of Maange Manzooriyan has drawn a distinctly smaller audience on its official Zee Music Company upload — in the tens of thousands of views versus over a million for the female version — a common outcome for dual-gender Bollywood song pairs, where the version picturized more prominently or promoted first tends to become the default listening choice.