हद कर दे

Hadd Kar De (हद कर दे) is the festive Holi number from Samrat Prithviraj (2022), composed by Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy with lyrics by Varun Grover, sung by Neeti Mohan and Keerthi Sagathia. Picturized on Akshay Kumar and Manushi Chhillar as Prithviraj and Sanyogita, the song is built around the traditional folk imagery of Falgun (the spring month that culminates in Holi) and functions as the soundtrack's celebratory set-piece, contrasting with the album's more solemn devotional and romantic-ballad numbers. Neeti Mohan, one of Bollywood's established playback voices, leads the track with Gujarati folk and devotional singer Keerthi Sagathia providing a traditional textural counterpoint, giving the song an authentic regional-folk colour appropriate to its Rajasthan-set historical setting.

Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy dress Hadd Kar De in an upbeat folk-dance arrangement built for a festive set-piece, with Neeti Mohan's polished playback voice leading against Keerthi Sagathia's more grounded, traditional vocal texture — a pairing that gives the track a call-and-response energy suited to a communal Holi celebration sequence. The composition leans on percussive, celebratory rhythms typical of the trio's period-set folk numbers, distinct from the ghazal-inflected romanticism of the soundtrack's other duets.

Varun Grover's lyric personifies the arrival of Falgun as a beckoned guest — 'Hey Falgun aayo re' (O Falgun, come!) — using classic Hindi-folk address to invoke the spring season, before shifting into the title's playful accusation, 'hadd kar de,' aimed at a beloved whose charm has 'crossed all limits.' The idiom situates the song squarely in the register of Holi folk-geet, where seasonal celebration and romantic teasing are traditionally intertwined.

Samrat Prithviraj, directed by Chandraprakash Dwivedi and produced by Yash Raj Films, stars Akshay Kumar as the 12th-century Chahamana king Prithviraj Chauhan and Manushi Chhillar as his queen Sanyogita, with Sanjay Dutt and Sonu Sood in supporting roles. Hadd Kar De appears as a celebratory folk sequence within the film, depicting a Holi-season courtship moment between the royal couple, offering a lighter, festive counterpoint to the film's larger historical-war narrative. The film released on 3 June 2022 under its amended title, days after the Prithviraj-to-Samrat Prithviraj name change prompted by Karni Sena protests.

Hadd Kar De found a modest but steady audience as one of the soundtrack's more accessible, danceable tracks, its official YRF video crossing several million YouTube views and drawing amateur dance-cover attention on platforms like YouTube, reflecting its appeal as a Holi/sangeet-season number distinct from the film's box-office fortunes. It remains best known today as a representative example of Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy's folk-dance register within a historical-epic soundtrack.