लव यू सो मच (आई वॉन्ट टू किल यू)

Love You So Much (I Want To Kill You) is the deliberately campy, English-language second single from Vasan Bala's neo-noir dark-comedy thriller Monica, O My Darling (2022), written, composed and produced by Achint Thakkar and sung by Sarita Vaz. Released on 4–5 November 2022 by Sony Music India, days before the film's 11 November Netflix premiere, the track was pitched by its own official credits as 'the top killer song of the season' — a knowing joke that plays directly off the film's murder-conspiracy plot. Built on guitar work by Warren Mendonsa (of Blackstratblues) alongside Thakkar, with backing vocals rounding out the arrangement, the song stands apart from the soundtrack's more atmospheric tracks as its brightest, most overtly comic musical moment.

Achint Thakkar composed, wrote and produced Love You So Much single-handedly, bringing in guitarist Warren Mendonsa — best known as Blackstratblues — to co-play guitars and bass alongside him, giving the track a live-band, rock-pop energy distinct from the rest of the soundtrack's moodier, synth-and-strings palette. Sarita Vaz's vocal delivery leans bright and slightly theatrical, matching the song's exaggerated lyric content, while backing vocals thicken the chorus into an anthemic, sing-along hook — a deliberate contrast to the restrained, noir-ish arrangements Thakkar built for the film's other tracks.

Written entirely in English, Achint Thakkar's lyric strings together a catalogue of unreliable romantic archetypes — a biker, a writer, each promising something and delivering abandonment — before landing on the song's central irony: 'love you so much I want to kill you,' a line that weaponises romantic cliché into dark comedy. Rather than expressing literal menace, the song functions as a satirical break-up anthem, its violence entirely metaphorical, which lets it sit comfortably inside a film literally built around a murder plot without ever crossing into actual threat.

Monica, O My Darling follows roboticist Jayant Arkhedkar (Rajkummar Rao), who becomes caught up in a blackmail-turned-murder conspiracy involving company secretary Monica Machado (Huma Qureshi), as bodies pile up and a sharp police officer, ACP Naidu (Radhika Apte), closes in. Love You So Much (I Want To Kill You) leans directly into the film's pulpy, dark-comic register, its title phrase openly winking at the very murder plot the story revolves around — a meta-musical joke rather than a scene-specific narrative beat. Released as the second promotional single days ahead of the film's 11 November 2022 Netflix debut, the song helped signal the film's tonal blend of comedy and crime before audiences saw a single frame.

As the deliberately comic counterpart to the soundtrack's moodier tracks, Love You So Much (I Want To Kill You) has become one of the more distinctive, oft-referenced needle-drops from Monica, O My Darling's soundtrack in retrospective coverage of the film's music, its title phrase quoted in reviews and playlists as shorthand for the film's dark-comic tone. The song benefits from the wider critical and awards success of the film itself, which won four prizes at the 2023 Filmfare OTT Awards including Best Web Original Film — success that kept its soundtrack, and this single in particular, in circulation well beyond the film's initial release window.