बाहों में तेरी

Baahon Mein Teri is a hushed, acoustic-leaning romantic number from Kho Gaye Hum Kahan (2023), written, composed and sung entirely by singer-songwriter Ankur Tewari, who also wrote lyrics for every other song on the soundtrack. Featured in an official video alongside Siddhant Chaturvedi and Kalki Koechlin, the track is the album's longest cut at nearly five minutes, standing apart from the soundtrack's more upbeat, pop-forward numbers as its most stripped-down, singer-songwriter moment. Released by Zee Music Company in early February 2024, several weeks after the film's 26 December 2023 theatrical debut, it plays into the film's quieter emotional register — underscoring the tender, unhurried intimacy of Imaad's relationship with the older woman he falls for, in contrast to his earlier pattern of casual, alias-driven hookups.

As sole composer and performer on this track, Ankur Tewari strips the arrangement down to an intimate, largely acoustic register, letting his own unpolished, conversational vocal delivery carry the song rather than layering in the pop production found elsewhere on the soundtrack — a deliberate contrast that marks Baahon Mein Teri as the album's most singer-songwriter-driven entry, closer to a live, unplugged performance than a studio-polished film song.

Ankur Tewari's own lyric is a simple, repeated plea — 'rehne do baahon mein apni kuchh aur pal ke liye' (let me stay in your arms for a few more moments) — built on the idea of consciously holding onto a fleeting present rather than looking ahead or back, a minimalist romantic register that avoids ornate metaphor in favour of direct, almost conversational tenderness.

Baahon Mein Teri arrives late in Kho Gaye Hum Kahan's soundtrack sequence, scoring a tender moment in Imaad's (Siddhant Chaturvedi) relationship with Simran (Kalki Koechlin), the older photographer whose grounded connection with him marks a departure from his earlier casual-dating patterns. Directed by Arjun Varain Singh and produced by Excel Entertainment and Tiger Baby Films under Ritesh Sidhwani, Zoya Akhtar, Reema Kagti and Farhan Akhtar, the film released theatrically on 26 December 2023, with this track following as a February 2024 addition to the soundtrack's official video rollout.

While it hasn't matched the chart or streaming numbers of the soundtrack's bigger singles like 'Hone Do Jo Hota Hai', Baahon Mein Teri stands as a quieter fan favourite among listeners drawn to Ankur Tewari's singer-songwriter sensibility, and the album as a whole received a Filmfare OTT Awards nomination for Best Original Soundtrack in 2024. At nearly five minutes, it is also notably the longest track on the soundtrack.