रहे ना क्यों (स्त्री स्वर)

Rahe Na Kyun (रहे ना क्यों) — Female Version is the promoted, primary rendition of the emotional centerpiece song from Tarla (2023), the biographical drama on pioneering Indian TV chef and cookbook author Tarla Dalal, starring Huma Qureshi in the title role opposite Sharib Hashmi. Composed by Suhit Abhyankar (who co-scored the film with Nilotpal Bora and Rohan Vinayak) with lyrics by Manoj Yadav, the song is sung by veteran ghazal-pop vocalist Rekha Bhardwaj, known for a decades-long body of work spanning Vishal Bhardwaj's films and independent ghazal albums. Released by Zee Music Company as an official video on 10 July 2023, just after the film's 7 July premiere on ZEE5, the track features an arrangement built around Arshad Khan's israaj, guitar by Shomu Seal and tabla by Amey Thakurdesai. Actor Sharib Hashmi, who plays Tarla's husband Nalin in the film, also recorded and shared his own personal rendition of the song, which was covered as a promotional feature by Rolling Stone India — an unusual instance of a lead cast member covering his own film's soundtrack song around release.

Suhit Abhyankar built Rahe Na Kyun around a restrained, largely acoustic palette — Arshad Khan's israaj carrying the melodic core, Shomu Seal's guitar filling out the texture, and Amey Thakurdesai's tabla keeping a gentle, unhurried pulse. Rekha Bhardwaj's voice, seasoned across ghazals and film music since the 1990s, brings a weathered, husky warmth that suits the song's understated grief, distinguishing this version from the composer's own, plainer solo take on the same melody.

Manoj Yadav's lyric turns on the repeated title phrase 'rahe na kyun' — a quiet, rhetorical wish for something (a feeling, a bond) to endure — rendered here from a female perspective with an ache that Rekha Bhardwaj's voice, long associated with yearning and restraint in songs like Vishal Bhardwaj's ghazal-rooted scores, brings naturally to the surface.

Tarla, directed by Piyush Gupta and produced by Ronnie Screwvala's RSVP Movies with Earthsky, chronicles the life of Tarla Dalal (Huma Qureshi), the Mumbai homemaker who became one of India's best-selling cookbook authors and a pioneering television cookery host, with Sharib Hashmi as her devoted husband Nalin Dalal. The film premiered on ZEE5 on 7 July 2023. Rahe Na Kyun's female version, as the soundtrack's promotionally lead track, was used to underscore a pivotal, quietly emotional passage in Tarla and Nalin's marriage, and its release was closely followed by Sharib Hashmi's own personal cover of the song, which received dedicated press coverage.

As the version promoted with an official Zee Music Company video (rather than an audio-only release), Rahe Na Kyun (Female Version) carried the bulk of the song's public visibility, amplified further when cast member Sharib Hashmi's own cover was picked up by Rolling Stone India as a feature story. Within Tarla's modest, mood-first soundtrack, this rendition stands as the more widely heard and referenced of the song's two vocal versions.