मेरे बाबा

Mere Baba (मेरे बाबा) is a Shiv bhakti single released by T-Series' devotional imprint T-Series Bhakti Sagar on 26 February 2022, sung by Jubin Nautiyal with music composed by Payal Dev and lyrics penned by Manoj Muntashir. The song frames Lord Shiva as 'Baba' — an intimate, father-like figure rather than a distant deity — reflecting a devotional-pop trend that T-Series has leaned into heavily since the early 2020s, pairing mainstream playback singers with bhajan compositions aimed at both temple-going and streaming audiences. The accompanying music video, directed by Kashan Shahid and produced by Bhushan Kumar, features a small ensemble cast built around imagery of devotion and pilgrimage rather than a film narrative. On streaming and YouTube the song became one of Jubin Nautiyal's most consistently played devotional releases, regularly resurfacing around Mahashivratri and the Sawan month, and its official YouTube upload has crossed well over 170 million views.

Payal Dev's composition keeps Mere Baba in a gentle, medium-tempo devotional register built for repeat listening rather than a single dramatic climax — a style she has used across several T-Series Bhakti Sagar singles. Jubin Nautiyal's vocal is warm and restrained rather than belted, closer to a personal prayer than a stage bhajan, which suits the song's intimate father-devotee framing of Shiva.

Manoj Muntashir's lyric builds around the everyday uncertainty of where the divine truly resides — 'some say you are in Kashi, some say Kailash' — before resolving it with a simple devotional conviction: wherever he is, he was always near the moment he was called. The word 'Baba' does double duty, invoking both Shiva's ascetic form and the universal Hindi word for father, letting the song read simultaneously as a bhajan and as a tribute to paternal protection.

As a non-film single released under T-Series' dedicated devotional imprint T-Series Bhakti Sagar, Mere Baba was built for the label's broader Shiv-bhakti catalogue rather than tied to any film. It was released on 26 February 2022, positioning it ahead of that year's Mahashivratri and Sawan devotional listening season — a release-timing pattern common to T-Series' bhajan output, which regularly drops new devotional singles around major Shiva festivals to capture seasonal search and streaming spikes.

Mere Baba has become one of Jubin Nautiyal's steadiest-performing devotional releases, with its official T-Series YouTube video crossing well over 170 million views in the years since release, and repeat spikes in listening every Mahashivratri and Sawan month. It sits alongside other Nautiyal-Payal Dev Shiv bhajans such as Mere Bhole Nath and Har Har Shambhu as part of a run of devotional singles that has made Nautiyal one of the most-streamed voices in the modern Hindi bhajan space.