सजना (फ़ीमेल वर्शन)

Sajna (Female Version) (सजना — फ़ीमेल वर्शन) is the female-voiced counterpart to the male-sung 'Sajna' from U-Turn (2023), Arif Khan's Hindi supernatural thriller starring Alaya F and Priyanshu Painyuli. Composed by Jeet Gannguli with lyrics by Kumaar, this version is sung by Prateeksha, while the original male version was sung by Raj Barman — both released as part of the film's six-track soundtrack by Zee Music Company on 17 April 2023, ahead of the film's ZEE5 premiere on 28 April 2023. Recording both a male and female rendition of the same romantic centerpiece is a common Bollywood practice, letting the soundtrack place either version at different emotional beats in the film — here giving Alaya F's character a musical voice to mirror Priyanshu Painyuli's, within a story that centers on their relationship amid the thriller's supernatural plot.

Jeet Gannguli builds Sajna around a slow, devotional melody with clear influences from Punjabi romantic balladry, and the female rendering by Prateeksha carries a softer, more plaintive tone than the original Raj Barman version, emphasizing tenderness over the intensity of longing found in the male take. As with many dual-gender Bollywood soundtrack pairs, the underlying composition stays identical across both versions, with the vocal performance and picturization context providing the differentiation.

Kumaar's lyric equates the beloved with the divine — 'duniya jisko rab kehti hai, ankhiyon mein teri hai dikhda' (what the world calls God, I see in your eyes) — a classic Sufi-influenced Hindi film device where romantic love is expressed in the vocabulary of religious devotion. The Punjabi-inflected phrasing ('sakda', 'dikhda') situates the song within a lineage of North Indian devotional-romantic ballads common in mainstream Hindi soundtracks of the 2020s.

U-Turn follows Radhika (Alaya F), a news intern drawn into a series of deaths connected to a cursed flyover U-turn, opposite Priyanshu Painyuli's character, in Arif Khan's remake of the 2016 Kannada original — produced by Ekta Kapoor and Shobha Kapoor for a 28 April 2023 ZEE5 release. Sajna serves as the soundtrack's central romantic ballad, and recording it in both male (Raj Barman) and female (Prateeksha) versions allowed the filmmakers to score the couple's relationship from either perspective at different points in the narrative.

The male version of Sajna sung by Raj Barman drew far greater traction, crossing several million YouTube views, while this female rendition by Prateeksha remains a comparatively lower-visibility companion track — typical of how dual-gender Bollywood soundtrack pairs perform, with one version usually emerging as the more widely circulated 'main' rendition. Its chief significance is giving newer playback singer Prateeksha a featured female-solo credit on a Jeet Gannguli composition within a mainstream OTT soundtrack.