इश्क़ मंज़ूर

'Ishq Manzoor' (Love Approved) is the most classically-inflected song on Sunny Sanskari Ki Tulsi Kumari's (Dharma Music, 2025) album — composed and lyrically authored by Tanishk Bagchi and sung by Shreya Ghoshal, Amit Mishra, and Nakash Aziz. The title phrase — 'ishq manzoor' as both the acceptance of love and a judgment passed on love — places the song in the Sufi poetic tradition where love requires divine sanction before it can be legitimately experienced. The three-voice arrangement gives the song a chamber-music quality unusual for a mass Bollywood comedy.

Tanishk Bagchi employs a harmonium-led arrangement with light tabla and a sparse string section for 'Ishq Manzoor' — one of his most restrained productions. Shreya Ghoshal takes the song's melodic lead with her characteristic precision; Amit Mishra and Nakash Aziz provide supporting harmonies rather than competing vocal lines, creating a layered effect that suggests a spontaneous meeting of three voices.

Bagchi's lyric for 'Ishq Manzoor' works in the classical Sufi framework where love must be 'manzoor' (approved, accepted, granted) by a higher authority — whether divine, parental, or social. The comedy film's context reframes this as ironic: Sunny and Tulsi's love is 'manzoor' before they admit it exists, approved by the universe even as both characters deny it.

'Ishq Manzoor' was included because Shashank Khaitan wanted the album to have a song that operated above the comic register — a moment where the film acknowledges the weight of what its characters are doing. The three-singer arrangement was Bagchi's solution to giving the song a communal blessing quality.

The song became a favourite among listeners who missed the Sufi-romantic tradition in mainstream Bollywood — one of 2025's cleaner examples of the genre, with an accessible pop production framing a lyric that would have sat comfortably in an earlier Bollywood decade.