गहराइयां (रिप्राइज़)

Gehraiyaan (Reprise) is the slower, more introspective reworking of the Gehraiyaan title track, released on 14 February 2022 as part of the film's soundtrack. Composed by OAFF (Kabeer Kathpalia) and Savera Mehta with lyrics by Ankur Tewari, the reprise trades the original version's brighter arrangement (sung by Lothika Jha, Savera Mehta, and Kabeer Kathpalia) for a stripped-back reading led by veteran playback singer Mohit Chauhan alongside Lothika Jha. Its official video, like the rest of the soundtrack, is set against Shakun Batra's relationship drama starring Deepika Padukone, Siddhant Chaturvedi, Ananya Panday, and Dhairya Karwa, released for Amazon Prime Video on 11 February 2022. Mohit Chauhan's presence on the reprise is notable given his long history voicing introspective, aching ballads in Hindi cinema (Tum Se Hi, Masakali, Phir Le Aya Dil), and his casting here signals the reprise's function within the soundtrack — a quieter emotional counterpoint delivered once the film's central affair has curdled into consequence, rather than a promotional lead single.

Where the Gehraiyaan title track carries a brighter, more propulsive arrangement, the reprise strips the production back to let Mohit Chauhan's weathered, emotive voice carry the melody with minimal ornamentation, joined by Lothika Jha in a call-and-response that feels more like a shared confession than a performance. The choice of Chauhan — an artist strongly associated with restrained, ache-laden ballads across his career — reorients the same melodic material toward vulnerability rather than the atmospheric shimmer of OAFF and Savera's original.

Ankur Tewari's reprise lyric leans on a single, potent paradox — 'tu marz hai dawa bhi, par aadat hai humein' (you are both my illness and my cure, but I'm addicted regardless) — turning the title track's sense of falling into gehraiyaan (depths) into an admission of helpless dependency. The reprise format itself, arriving later in the soundtrack sequence, lets the same words land with the weight of hindsight rather than infatuation.

Gehraiyaan follows Alisha (Deepika Padukone), whose affair with her cousin's fiancé Zain (Siddhant Chaturvedi) spirals into betrayal, financial entanglement, and eventually tragedy when Zain attempts to harm Alisha before drowning himself. The reprise version, released 14 February 2022 — three days after the film's premiere — functions as the soundtrack's emotional coda, its slower, sparer register suited to the film's darker, more consequence-laden back half rather than the earlier stretch of illicit attraction scored by songs like Beqaaboo.

The Gehraiyaan Reprise has drawn a more modest audience than the soundtrack's lead singles, with its official video at a few million YouTube views, reflecting its role as an album deep cut rather than a promotional centerpiece. It nonetheless remains a notable addition to Mohit Chauhan's long discography of aching Hindi film ballads and is frequently cited by fans of the soundtrack as one of its most emotionally direct tracks.