इश्क़ तो इश्क़ जैसा है

Ishq Toh Ishq Jaisa Hai (इश्क़ तो इश्क़ जैसा है) is the centerpiece — and, as far as extensive research across Wikipedia, Sacnilk, Bollywood Hungama, JioSaavn and Apple Music indicates, the only officially released song — from Ajmer 92 (2023), a Hindi crime drama directed by Pushpendra Singh dramatizing the real 1992 Ajmer serial rapes and blackmail case. Composed by Parthasakha Daskabi with lyrics by Amrit, the song is sung by veteran playback singer Javed Ali with backing vocals from Prithwiraj Daskabi, Parth, Sumit, Priyansh and Ramparvesh Yadav, and features Sarangi by Dilshad Khan and Dholak by Must. Released by Zee Music Company on 28 July 2023, exactly a week after the film's 21 July 2023 theatrical release, the ghazal-pop ballad stands as a deliberately restrained, near-solitary musical moment in a film whose subject matter — institutional betrayal and the exploitation of trust — left little room for a conventional multi-song soundtrack.

Parthasakha Daskabi's composition leans into a classic ghazal-pop palette — Dilshad Khan's sarangi lines and a steady dholak pulse from Must give the arrangement an acoustic, semi-classical texture rather than a contemporary pop sheen. Javed Ali's vocal, backed by a five-person chorus (Prithwiraj Daskabi, Parth, Sumit, Priyansh, Ramparvesh Yadav), carries the melody with the restrained ache typical of his ghazal-adjacent film work, produced and arranged by Sumit Verma.

Amrit's lyric works with a spare, almost aphoristic central line — 'ishq toh ishq jaisa hai' (love is simply like love, nothing else) — a tautological turn of phrase common to Urdu ghazal tradition, where the beloved's feeling resists comparison to anything outside itself. The simplicity of the refrain gives the song a meditative, quietly devotional quality that suits its placement in a film built around grief and institutional failure rather than romantic celebration.

Ajmer 92, directed by Pushpendra Singh and written by Suraj Pal Rajak, Gyanendra Pratap Singh and Pushpendra Singh, dramatizes the real events that unfolded in Ajmer, Rajasthan, where a group of young men — led by Farooq and Nafis Chishty of the prominent Khadim family — repeatedly gang-raped and blackmailed several girls, including minors, across several years, culminating in the case's exposure in 1992. The film stars Karan Verma, Sumit Singh and Rajesh Sharma in lead roles, with Shalini Kapoor, Seerat Kaur, Sayaji Shinde and Zarina Wahab in support. Given the film's grim, real-events subject matter, its music was kept deliberately minimal — Ishq Toh Ishq Jaisa Hai appears to be the sole song commercially released for the film, arriving a week after its 21 July 2023 theatrical debut.

As a song attached to a small-scale crime drama on a difficult, real-events subject, Ishq Toh Ishq Jaisa Hai did not chart or generate major buzz, and its official Zee Music Company video has drawn a modest view count. Its chief significance on HindiGeet.in is as a documented example of a Hindi film choosing near-total musical restraint — a single ghazal-pop track rather than a conventional multi-song soundtrack — as a deliberate creative choice suited to somber, issue-driven cinema.