प्यार च तेरे (पंजाबी ब्लूज़)

The lead vocal track from Ghich Pich (2025), 'Pyaar Ch Tere (Punjabi Blues)' is sung by Rahul Lakhanpal with music by Rohit Sharma and lyrics by Shellee. Set against the early-2000s Chandigarh backdrop of the film, the song captures the first pangs of adolescent love in a Punjabi vernacular that feels authentic to the period. The blues-tinged subtitle signals a deliberate blending of Chandigarhi folk warmth with a Western-influenced melancholy — a musical metaphor for the film's themes of young men caught between tradition and desire.

Rohit Sharma's composition blends acoustic guitar with light dholak — a combination that evokes the particular emotional temperature of Chandigarh youth culture, where Punjabi music and Western pop have long intermingled. The 'blues' in the subtitle is not literal but metaphorical: there is a yearning, unresolved quality to the melody that resists easy resolution. Rahul Lakhanpal's voice has a tender rawness suited to this first-love material.

Shellee — one of Hindi cinema's more distinctive lyricists (known for Tamasha, Mirzapur) — writes in Punjabi here with the same attention to texture he brings to literary Hindi. 'Pyaar Ch Tere' (literally 'in love with you') is grammatically Punjabi but emotionally universal, collapsing the distance between the specific (Chandigarh 2003) and the timeless (first love everywhere).

The song appears to serve as the emotional centerpiece of the film's early section — the years when the three protagonists are still young enough to love freely before their fathers' ambitions close in. Rohit Sharma, best known for scoring The Vaccine War, brings unexpected folk sensitivity to this project.

Ghich Pich's critical reception at Melbourne and Chicago festivals suggests the film and its music will find a niche audience among diaspora viewers nostalgic for 2000s India. The EP version of 'Pyaar Ch Tere' also released in female, unplugged, and acoustic versions, indicating the song's versatility beyond its film context.