सखी रे

Sakhi Re (सखी रे) is an original non-film track composed for Netflix's Hindi thriller series Yeh Kaali Kaali Ankhein, which premiered on 14 January 2022. Written and sung by Anuj Danait, with co-composer Shivam Sengupta also lending vocals, the song was released as part of the show's soundtrack alongside sibling track 'Bheega Bheega' — both original compositions distinct from the series' recreated title theme (a reworking of the 1993 Baazigar song by Anu Malik). The song's central address to a 'sakhi' (a confidante, a device rooted in classical and folk Hindi poetry) frames romantic confusion — 'who is my own, who is a stranger' — that echoes the show's tangled relationship between Vikrant, Purva and Shikha. It was mixed and mastered as part of the same production package handling the show's other original songs.

Sakhi Re is carried jointly by Anuj Danait and Shivam Sengupta's vocals, keeping the arrangement sparse and slow-tempo in the same restrained, folk-tinged register as the show's other original song, Bheega Bheega. The shorter runtime (under three minutes) and minimal instrumentation give it the feel of an intimate, almost conversational address rather than a full production number, in keeping with its lyrical device of speaking directly to a confidante.

Anuj Danait's lyric uses the classical Hindi-poetry device of addressing a 'sakhi' — a close female friend — to voice private romantic confusion aloud: 'sakhi re main jaanu na, kaun apna kaun paraya' (O friend, I don't know who is my own and who is a stranger). This device, long used in bhakti and folk traditions to externalize a narrator's inner turmoil, here frames the uncertainty at the emotional core of the show's love story.

Yeh Kaali Kaali Ankhein, directed by Sidharth Sengupta and premiering on Netflix on 14 January 2022, follows Vikrant Singh Chauhan (Tahir Raj Bhasin), pressured into marrying Purva (Anchal Singh), daughter of politician Akheraj (Saurabh Shukla), while secretly in love with Shikha (Shweta Tripathi) — a dynamic the show frames as one woman's obsessive intrusion on an existing bond rather than a mutual triangle. Sakhi Re's confidante-address lyric mirrors that emotional confusion, functioning as an interior monologue set to music within the series' broader crime-thriller arc.

Sakhi Re has not charted commercially and remains a niche title within the Yeh Kaali Kaali Ankhein soundtrack, with well under a million views on its official Netflix India video, but along with Bheega Bheega it represents a rare instance of a Netflix Hindi original series commissioning wholly new songs rather than relying solely on licensed background score and a recreated title theme.