माँ बनने वाली हूँ

Maa Banne Wali Hoon (माँ बनने वाली हूँ) is the central emotional song of Dukaan (2024), the surrogacy drama written and directed by Siddharth Singh and Garima Wahal. Sung by Shreya Ghoshal alongside Aishwarya Bhandari, composed by Shreyas Puranik and written by the film's own director-duo Siddharth-Garima, the track is a tender ode to impending motherhood — framed as an intimate address to the unborn child, opening with 'Pappa kaan dena, Mummy zara tu sunn na' (Papa, lend an ear; Mummy, just listen). Released on 11 March 2024 through the Music Garage label, nearly a month ahead of the film's 5 April 2024 theatrical release, it distils the film's aching questions about who a child truly belongs to into a soft, string-and-piano-led lullaby of longing and love.

Composer Shreyas Puranik keeps the arrangement deliberately spare and lullaby-like: a soft, slow-tempo bed built for the voice rather than for spectacle, so that the lyric's intimacy carries the song. Shreya Ghoshal's controlled, feather-light delivery — one of contemporary playback's most reliable interpreters of maternal and devotional tenderness — is paired with Aishwarya Bhandari's voice, giving the track a two-voice, almost conversational warmth that suits its address-to-the-child conceit. It is the kind of restrained, melody-first film ballad that is engineered to underscore an emotional pregnancy sequence rather than to chase the dance floor.

Written by the film's own directors Siddharth-Garima, the lyric adopts the tenderest of framing devices: instead of describing motherhood from the outside, it speaks directly to the child not yet born — 'Pappa kaan dena, Mummy zara tu sunn na' (Papa, lend an ear; Mummy, just listen). The address folds both parents and the unborn baby into a single hushed conversation, and the recurring title-line 'Maa banne wali hoon' (I am going to become a mother) turns anticipation into a refrain. In the context of Dukaan's surrogacy plot, that simple declaration carries a double weight — the joy of carrying a life, and the unspoken ache of the question of whose child it will be.

Dukaan (2024) is a Hindi drama written and directed by the duo Siddharth Singh and Garima Wahal, produced by Waveband Productions and Kalamkaar Picture Productions and released theatrically on 5 April 2024. The film explores commercial surrogacy through Jasmine (Monika Panwar), a woman who becomes a surrogate for financial stability, and the wrenching turn the story takes when the question of who has the right to raise the child comes to the fore; the cast also includes Monali Thakur, Soham Majumdar and Sikandar Kher. Maa Banne Wali Hoon functions as the film's emotional anchor — the song that voices Jasmine's bond with the life she carries — and was released as a promotional single on 11 March 2024 to seed the film's marketing ahead of release, its official video crossing several million views on the Music Garage YouTube channel.

As the standout ballad from a small, issue-driven film, Maa Banne Wali Hoon's afterlife rests less on chart numbers than on its subject: it joins the small canon of Hindi film songs written explicitly about pregnancy and the anticipation of motherhood, a theme rarely given its own full song. Shreya Ghoshal's association lends it staying power as a tender, occasion-ready piece — the kind of track that resurfaces at baby showers (godh bharai) and Mother's Day playlists — while its place inside Dukaan's surrogacy narrative gives it an unusually pointed emotional charge for a genre usually reserved for uncomplicated joy.