दरिया है

Dariya Hai (दरिया है) is the futuristic, electronic-tinged closing track of Anurag Kashyap's time-bending thriller Dobaaraa (2022), composed and produced by the duo Shor Police — Clinton Cerejo and Bianca Gomes — with lyrics by Hussain Haidry. Released as part of the film's five-track soundtrack on Saregama on 19 August 2022, the same day as the theatrical release, the song was conceived specifically to land at the point in the film where the audience is left processing 'what just happened' after the central mystery resolves. Cerejo and Gomes, who also composed Dobaaraa's background score under their Shor Police moniker, built the track around punchy electronic production rather than a conventional film-song structure, and both artists sing on the recording themselves. It functions less as a chart single and more as an atmospheric coda to the film's genre-bending screenplay, which moves between two timelines connected through a television set during a thunderstorm.

Shor Police built Dariya Hai around a punchy, futuristic electronic bed rather than a conventional orchestral film-song arrangement — a deliberate departure that matches the film's genre-bending, sci-fi-adjacent premise. Clinton Cerejo and Bianca Gomes, who compose as a duo and also handle Dobaaraa's background score, sing the track themselves, trading and blending vocals over the production rather than handing it to separate playback singers. Cerejo mixed and mastered the track at his own Groove Room studio in Mumbai, giving the duo full end-to-end control over its sound — a rarity for a mainstream Hindi film soundtrack credit.

Hussain Haidry's lyric leans on a single extended metaphor — the sea (dariya) as a stand-in for turbulent time and memory — with the opening couplet 'toofaan se yaari kare ye, ishq kare ye kinaaron se' (this makes friends with the storm, this falls in love with the shores) framing a paradox of embracing chaos while still longing for stability. The imagery suits Dobaaraa's plot, where the protagonist is pulled between two timelines — one calm, one turbulent — and must reconcile both to move forward.

Dobaaraa, directed by Anurag Kashyap and starring Taapsee Pannu, Pavail Gulati and Rahul Bhat, follows a woman who discovers she can communicate through a television set during a thunderstorm with a 12-year-old boy living 25 years in the past who witnessed a death — a Spanish-remake premise (of Mirage) reworked for an Indian setting. Dariya Hai plays late in the film, arriving after the central time-loop mystery resolves, functioning as a tonal exhale for the audience. The film premiered at the London Indian Film Festival on 23 June 2022 before its India theatrical release on 19 August 2022, produced under Anurag Kashyap Films with Kalpataru Films and Zee Studios' backing.

Dariya Hai did not chart commercially and remains a modest-reach track compared to Dobaaraa's more prominent lead single Waqt Ke Jungle (sung by Armaan Malik), reflecting the film's own box-office underperformance (an estimated ₹6.77 crore against a ₹30 crore budget) despite strong critical reception (73% on Rotten Tomatoes from 11 reviews). Its lasting value is as a soundtrack curio — one of the rare mainstream Hindi film credits where the composers themselves are the singers, and a showcase for Shor Police's electronic-music sensibility within a Bollywood context.