क्या हमने सोचा था

Kya Humne Socha Tha (क्या हमने सोचा था) is a melancholic reflection-on-love track from Starfish (2023), composed by producer-musician OAFF with lyrics by Medha Sahi, sung as a three-way vocal collaboration between OAFF himself, singer-songwriter Nikhil D'Souza, and playback veteran Tulsi Kumar. Released on the Starfish soundtrack under T-Series ahead of the film's 24 November 2023 release, the song is picturized on lead actors Khushalii Kumar and Ehan Bhat, giving the film's central relationship its dedicated introspective moment. OAFF (Piyush Poddar), known for his work on Gehraiyaan and with Savera, brings his indie-adjacent production sensibility to a mainstream Bollywood soundtrack, layering D'Souza's understated vocal texture against Tulsi Kumar's more classically trained playback delivery — an unusual pairing that reflects the film's attempt at a contemporary, cross-genre musical identity distinct from a conventional item-heavy Bollywood soundtrack.

OAFF's composition leans on a sparse, mid-tempo pop arrangement that gives space to the vocal interplay between three quite different singers — his own understated delivery, Nikhil D'Souza's soft, indie-inflected tone, and Tulsi Kumar's more polished, classically trained playback voice. Rather than building to a big Bollywood crescendo, the song stays restrained throughout, prioritising the melancholic mood over dramatic vocal runs, consistent with OAFF's broader body of work in reflective, indie-pop-adjacent film music.

Medha Sahi's lyric opens on the image of a dream that was 'a broken star' — using the falling-star metaphor common in Hindi poetry to signal a wish that didn't come true — and builds around the recurring, almost accusatory question of the title: 'what did we think would happen?' It's a lyric of retrospective doubt rather than present-tense romance, addressing a love or hope now being re-examined after the fact, which suits its placement as an interior, reflective beat within the film rather than a declarative love song.

Starfish, directed by Akhilesh Jaiswal for producers Bhushan Kumar and Krishan Kumar, centres on diver Tara Salgaonkar (Khushalii Kumar) confronting her mother's death and family secrets alongside Ehan Bhat's character Neil and Milind Soman's Arlo. Kya Humne Socha Tha functions as the film's introspective relationship track, giving the Tara-Neil dynamic its melancholic musical beat amid the film's suspense-drama plotting. The film opened theatrically on 24 November 2023 to a soft box office response before streaming on Netflix from 19 January 2024, with the wider seven-track soundtrack — spanning composers from Arijit Singh to Yo Yo Honey Singh — serving as one of the production's more ambitious elements relative to its theatrical reception.

Kya Humne Socha Tha did not chart or break streaming records in the way some of Starfish's other tracks attempted to, remaining a modest, moderately viewed addition to the soundtrack rather than a breakout hit — its official T-Series video has drawn roughly 90,000 views. Its more notable legacy is the unusual three-way vocal pairing of OAFF, Nikhil D'Souza and Tulsi Kumar, an artist combination rarely seen together on a single mainstream Bollywood track, reflecting the soundtrack's broader strategy of mixing indie and mainstream playback sensibilities across its seven songs.