अपना बना ले (अखिल सचदेवा वर्जन)

Apna Bana Le (Akhil Sachdeva Version) is an official alternate rendition of Bhediya's (2022) romantic centerpiece, released on 6 December 2022 by Zee Music Company — about a month after the original Arijit Singh version had already become one of the year's biggest Hindi film songs. Composed by Sachin-Jigar with lyrics by Amitabh Bhattacharya, the song was reworked with singer-songwriter Akhil Sachdeva's own voice and phrasing, following a pattern common to modern Bollywood soundtracks where a hit track gets a second, singer-led version to extend its shelf life across playlists and radio. Bhediya, directed by Amar Kaushik and starring Varun Dhawan and Kriti Sanon, was released theatrically on 25 November 2022; the film's soundtrack, and Apna Bana Le in particular, was one of its most commercially durable assets, and this Akhil Sachdeva cut gave the song a second life among listeners who favour Sachdeva's own singer-songwriter catalogue (Bolna, Tera Ban Jaunga).

Where Arijit Singh's original leaned into Sachin-Jigar's fuller, more emotionally sweeping arrangement, the Akhil Sachdeva version pares the song back closer to its writer-composer's own register — Sachdeva is known for an intimate, acoustic-guitar-forward singer-songwriter sound (as heard in his own compositions like Bolna and Tera Ban Jaunga), and this rendition carries that same restrained, close-mic quality rather than the fuller orchestral lift of the film version, giving the same melody a more personal, unplugged feel.

Amitabh Bhattacharya's lyric — built on the refrain 'tu mera koi na hoke bhi kuch laage' (you feel like mine though you're not) — stays unchanged across both versions, articulating a familiar Hindi film trope of loving someone before any claim on them exists. In Sachdeva's more understated vocal delivery, the plea reads less as a grand declaration and more as a quiet, private admission, shifting the emotional weight of the same words toward vulnerability rather than sweep.

Bhediya, directed by Amar Kaushik, follows Bhaskar (Varun Dhawan), a road contractor in Arunachal Pradesh who is bitten by a wolf and begins transforming, and Dr. Anika (Kriti Sanon), guardian of the forest he threatens to destroy through his construction project. Apna Bana Le plays as the film's romantic through-line between the two leads. The Akhil Sachdeva version was not tied to a specific on-screen sequence like the original; it was released as a promotional/alternate audio track roughly two weeks after the film's 25 November 2022 theatrical debut, part of Zee Music Company's standard practice of extending a soundtrack's commercial run with singer-led re-recordings once the film itself was already in cinemas.

The original Arijit Singh version of Apna Bana Le went on to become one of 2022's most-streamed Hindi film songs, with its official Zee Music Company video crossing hundreds of millions of YouTube views. The Akhil Sachdeva version, by contrast, occupies a smaller niche — a few hundred thousand views on its official video — appealing chiefly to listeners who follow Sachdeva's singer-songwriter work rather than the mainstream film-song audience, and functioning as a durable but secondary entry in the Bhediya soundtrack's afterlife on streaming platforms.