क्या करूँ

Kya Karun (What Do I Do) is a slow, introspective track from Aankhon Ki Gustaakhiyan (Zee Music Company, 2025), composed, written and sung entirely by Vishal Mishra. At 3:38, it occupies the album's most vulnerable emotional space — the helplessness of someone who has fallen in love and does not know what to do with the feeling. Mishra's delivery is the most stripped-back on the record: quieter than anything else on the album, as though the question is whispered rather than sung.

The arrangement is even barer than Alvida: primarily piano with delicate guitar and faint strings. No heavy instrumentation diverts from the vocal. At 3:38 it is the album's second-shortest track, but its emotional density belies its length. Mishra's voice is the most stripped-back on the record — communicating with minimum rather than maximum.

The question 'Kya Karun' is one of the most universal expressions in Hindi-Urdu romantic poetry — the helpless interrogation directed at oneself when emotion overwhelms reason. Mishra builds the entire song around this question, exploring different facets of the same helplessness rather than a conventional mukhda-antara structure.

Kya Karun fills the emotional gap in the album's arc — between the longing of the title track and the farewell of Alvida — representing the crucial middle moment of confused feeling that the film's protagonists would have experienced after their first genuine conversation.

Cited by listeners as the album's most emotionally honest track despite modest streaming numbers. Represents Mishra at his most minimalist.