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Part of the Inspector Zende (2025) Netflix soundtrack, 'Majhi Baygo' (Marathi for 'My Wife') is a folk-inflected song composed by Sanket Sane with lyrics by Swanand Kirkire, sung by Nakash Aziz, the band Waking Grunt, and Sane himself. Set against the film's 1980 Mumbai backdrop, the song channels the Marathi folk tradition of affectionate domestic humour, grounding the thriller in the everyday reality of Inspector Zende's world. The song was released on 29 August 2025, a week before the Netflix premiere.

Sanket Sane, who has carved out a niche in Maharashtra for film music that honours Marathi folk traditions, keeps 'Majhi Baygo' rooted in its regional identity. Dholak drives the rhythm while harmonium provides melodic texture in a style evocative of the tamasha and powada traditions of Maharashtrian folk performance. Nakash Aziz, known for his versatility across Hindi, Marathi, and regional music, is an ideal guide through this sonic world.

Swanand Kirkire is among the most erudite lyricists in contemporary Hindi/Marathi film music — his work ranges from the philosophical ('Ek Din' in Taare Zameen Par) to the warmly domestic. 'Majhi Baygo' occupies his comic-folk register: gentle, knowing, and rooted in real Marathi speech patterns rather than Bollywood Marathi caricature.

The song's setting within the film likely places it in the domestic world of Inspector Zende himself — the joke being that while he chases a master criminal, his wife's opinion and household concerns remain the true centre of his universe. This is a classically Marathi narrative device: the powerful man humanised by his domestic situation.

The song adds to the growing corpus of Marathi-language songs embedded in mainstream Netflix Hindi productions — a trend that reflects India's increasingly multilingual content ecosystem. Swanand Kirkire's authorship of the Marathi lyrics for a high-profile Netflix original demonstrates the lyricist's continued relevance across languages and formats.