हम नशे में तो नहीं

Hum Nashe Mein Toh Nahin (हम नशे में तो नहीं) is the romantic centrepiece of Bhool Bhulaiyaa 2 (2022), Anees Bazmee's horror-comedy sequel starring Kartik Aaryan and Kiara Advani. Composed by Pritam with lyrics by Amitabh Bhattacharya, the duet is sung by Arijit Singh and Tulsi Kumar, whose voices have paired on numerous Bollywood romantic hits. Released as part of the film's soundtrack ahead of its 20 May 2022 theatrical release, the song underscores the tentative, wonder-struck courtship between Kartik Aaryan's Ruhaan and Kiara Advani's Reet within the otherwise supernatural plot, functioning as the soundtrack's emotional breather amid the horror-comedy chaos, and became one of the film's most-streamed tracks alongside the title song and 'De Taali'.

Pritam builds the song around a gentle, mid-tempo melodic arc that lets Arijit Singh's and Tulsi Kumar's voices interlace rather than compete — Singh's textured, slightly husky delivery answered by Kumar's smoother, brighter register, in the tradition of the duo's earlier pairings. The arrangement stays uncluttered, favouring warm acoustic-leaning textures over the film's more electronic, item-number-heavy tracks like 'De Taali', giving the soundtrack tonal contrast.

Amitabh Bhattacharya's lyric frames new love as a kind of bewildering intoxication — the singer questioning their own suddenly-changed 'harkatein' (habits) and 'hairatein' (astonishments) since meeting their beloved, before landing on the central, half-rhetorical question: 'hum nashe mein toh nahin' (are we not, perhaps, intoxicated?). It's a classic Bollywood romantic conceit — love as a substance one can't quite trust — rendered here in plain, conversational Hindi-Urdu rather than ornate poetry.

Bhool Bhulaiyaa 2, Anees Bazmee's standalone sequel to the 2007 hit, follows Ruhaan Randhawa (Kartik Aaryan), a fake psychic posing as 'Rooh Baba,' who is drawn into the Thakur family's ancestral mansion in Rajasthan to investigate a haunting tied to the vengeful spirit Manjulika — and into a slow-blossoming romance with Reet (Kiara Advani), a medical student and family member. 'Hum Nashe Mein Toh Nahin' scores the tentative, growing attraction between the two leads across the film's middle stretch, giving the horror-comedy plot a warm romantic subplot distinct from Tabu's dual-role horror thread.

As one of the standout tracks on a soundtrack dominated by the viral title song and item numbers, 'Hum Nashe Mein Toh Nahin' found a lasting audience on music streaming platforms as a go-to Arijit Singh–Tulsi Kumar romantic pick, helped along by Bhool Bhulaiyaa 2's own commercial success — the film became one of 2022's highest-grossing Hindi releases, which in turn kept its full soundtrack, including this duet, in heavy rotation through the year.