लोरी

Lori (लोरी) is the gentle lullaby from the surprise 2024 horror-comedy hit Munjya, sung by Hansika Pareek, composed by Sachin-Jigar and written by Amitabh Bhattacharya — the same trio behind the album's viral chartbusters Tainu Khabar Nahi and Hai Jamalo. Released by Zee Music Company on 17 June 2024, the barely-two-and-a-half-minute track is the quiet, tender counterpoint to the album's louder folk-pop numbers: where the rest of the Munjya soundtrack rattles and dances, Lori simply cradles a child to sleep in imagery of clouds, moonlight and a star-strewn sky. Placed inside a film about a vengeful Maharashtrian folk-spirit, its soft maternal warmth carries a faint eerie undertow — a lullaby that soothes and unsettles at once.

Against a soundtrack built for virality — the Skeletron-flecked Hai Jamalo, the earworm hook of Tainu Khabar Nahi — Sachin-Jigar deliberately strip Lori down to its barest form: a soft, unhurried lullaby that runs just 2 minutes 21 seconds. Hansika Pareek's vocal is intimate and cradle-close, more hummed than belted, letting the melody rock rather than build. It is the album's exhale — a reminder that the duo who can engineer a folk-dance banger can just as easily write a hush.

Amitabh Bhattacharya reaches for the oldest vocabulary of the Indian lullaby and refreshes it: the cradle is made of clouds (paalna baadalon ka), the pillow is the moon (takiya chaand ka), the ceiling a sky embroidered with stars. There is no narrative to decode and no metaphor to unpack — just the soft, repeatable images a parent murmurs over a sleeping child, chosen for their calm rather than their cleverness. In an album otherwise full of wordplay and swagger, Bhattacharya's restraint here is the point.

Munjya (2024) is a Marathi-rooted Hindi horror-comedy directed by Aditya Sarpotdar and produced by Dinesh Vijan under Maddock Films, part of the studio's shared horror-comedy universe alongside Stree, Bhediya and Stree 2. Starring Abhay Verma and Sharvari, with Mona Singh and Suhas Joshi, it takes its name and monster from Konkani-Maharashtrian folklore — the 'Munjya', the restless spirit of a boy who dies soon after his thread ceremony but before marriage. Made on a modest budget, the film became one of 2024's biggest sleeper hits. The Zee Music album that carried it — four songs by Sachin-Jigar and Amitabh Bhattacharya — leaned on the raucous Hai Jamalo and the romantic Tainu Khabar Nahi for its marketing, with Lori released as the soft, lullaby-shaped fourth colour of that palette on 17 June 2024. Its official video, featuring the film's cast, was uploaded to Zee Music Company the same day.

Munjya's music is remembered mostly for its two breakout tracks — Hai Jamalo and Tainu Khabar Nahi both crossed tens of millions of views and became reels staples — while Lori remains the album's quiet, underplayed corner. That is exactly its value in the catalogue: it is the track people rediscover after the hits, the proof that Sachin-Jigar and Amitabh Bhattacharya's Munjya score had range beyond the dance floor. As Bollywood's supply of genuine, gentle lullabies keeps thinning, Lori stands as one of 2024's few new additions to that small and tender canon.