दिल में बसे जो तेरे राम

Dil Me Basey Jo Tere Ram (दिल में बसे जो तेरे राम) is the lead devotional track from Mandali (2023), billed as the first Hindi film built around a Ramleela troupe, adapted from a story rooted in the Munshi Premchand literary tradition of using folk theatre to examine everyday morality. Composed by Rahul Mishra, who also lends his own voice to the track alongside veteran singer Sukhwinder Singh, with lyrics by Sandeep Nath, the song was released by Zee Music Company as part of the film's soundtrack around its planned 27 October 2023 release. Mandali stars Rajniesh Duggall, Abhishek Duhan, Aanchal Munjal, Brijendra Kala and Kanwaljeet Singh, and was directed by Rakesh Chaturvedi Om, using the film's central Ramleela-performing troupe as a vehicle to explore contemporary questions of righteousness and moral compromise. As the soundtrack's devotional centerpiece, Dil Me Basey Jo Tere Ram sets the film's spiritual register, invoking Ram as a presence residing within the heart rather than only in temple or stage ritual.

Rahul Mishra composes Dil Me Basey Jo Tere Ram as a traditional-leaning bhajan-style devotional, pairing his own vocal with Sukhwinder Singh's distinctively textured, rustic singing voice — a pairing that lends the track a folk-theatre authenticity fitting for a film centered on a Ramleela performing troupe. The arrangement leans on a devotional, temple-adjacent melodic structure rather than a conventional item-song or romantic-ballad Hindi film sound.

Sandeep Nath's lyric works in the register of a simple devotional invocation, centering on the idea — common across Hindi bhajan tradition — of Ram not as a distant deity but as a presence residing within ('dil me basey', 'dwelling in the heart'), a framing that mirrors the film's larger thematic interest in lived, everyday righteousness over ritual performance alone.

Mandali is billed as the first Hindi feature built entirely around a Ramleela performance troupe, drawing on a story tradition associated with Munshi Premchand's examination of everyday morality through folk theatre. Directed by Rakesh Chaturvedi Om and produced by Rakesh Chaturvedi Om, the film stars Rajniesh Duggall, Abhishek Duhan, Aanchal Munjal, Brijendra Kala, Vineet Kumar and Kanwaljeet Singh, using the troupe's staging of the Ramayana as a mirror for the moral compromises of its characters' contemporary lives. Dil Me Basey Jo Tere Ram, sung by Sukhwinder Singh and composer Rahul Mishra, functions as the devotional thread running through the troupe's performances within the film.

As a devotional soundtrack lead for a smaller, theme-driven release rather than a major studio tentpole, Dil Me Basey Jo Tere Ram did not chart nationally, but it carries the added weight of pairing composer Rahul Mishra's voice with veteran singer Sukhwinder Singh, an artist known for a string of iconic Hindi film songs — giving the track a notable vocal pedigree within its niche.