चन परदेसी

Chann Pardesi (चन परदेसी) is the opening and title-setting track of the Goodbye (2022) soundtrack, composed and sung by Amit Trivedi with lyrics by Swanand Kirkire. Released by Zee Music Company on 28 September 2022, ahead of the film's 7 October 2022 theatrical release, the song uses Punjabi folk phrasing — addressing the 'chann' (moon) as 'pardesi' (one who has gone far away) — to frame the film's central grief, as the Bhalla family, led by patriarch Harish (Amitabh Bachchan) and his daughter Tara (Rashmika Mandanna, in her Hindi debut), come together in Chandigarh to mourn matriarch Gayatri (Neena Gupta). As the album's opener, Chann Pardesi establishes the soft, elegiac register that runs through Trivedi's largely acoustic, folk-leaning score for a film built around a family's mourning rituals and eventual healing.

Amit Trivedi, singing his own composition, keeps Chann Pardesi's arrangement sparse and folk-rooted, built around Punjabi vocal phrasing and acoustic instrumentation rather than any dance-floor or orchestral scale. His own rough-edged, emotive vocal delivery — a register he has used across several of his composer-sung tracks — suits the song's function as a lament rather than a conventional romantic number, letting Swanand Kirkire's lyric and the melody's folk cadence carry the emotional weight.

Swanand Kirkire's lyric uses the Punjabi image of the moon as 'pardesi' — a departed figure now far beyond reach — as a gentle, indirect way of addressing loss, avoiding the word 'death' in favour of the softer, more universal language of distance and longing. Lines like 'mainu jindadi bitaani tere naal ve' (I have to spend my whole life with you) speak to a bond that persists beyond physical absence, situating the song within the folk-lament tradition common to Punjabi mourning songs while keeping the register accessible to a mainstream Hindi film audience.

Goodbye (2022), directed by Vikas Bahl, follows the Bhalla family in Chandigarh as they navigate the death of matriarch Gayatri (Neena Gupta) — her husband Harish (Amitabh Bachchan) and lawyer daughter Tara (Rashmika Mandanna, marking her Hindi-film debut) must set aside their disagreements to conduct the last rites and confront unresolved family tensions along the way, with Sunil Grover as the family's pandit providing comic relief amid the grief. As the soundtrack's opening track, Chann Pardesi is used to establish this mourning atmosphere from the film's very start, its Punjabi folk lament setting up the emotional register — sorrow shot through with tenderness — that the rest of the film's narrative works through toward eventual acceptance and healing.

Chann Pardesi's official Zee Music Company video has drawn nearly 2 million views, with a separate lyrical version adding further reach, making it one of the more-viewed tracks from Goodbye's soundtrack alongside 'Beautiful' — the film's soundtrack overall was noted by reviewers for Amit Trivedi's restrained, folk-influenced scoring choice, in keeping with the film's family-drama tone rather than typical star-vehicle music promotion.