सिवा तेरे (फीमेल)

Siva Tere (सिवा तेरे) is one of two contrasting renditions — a female version sung by Madhubanti Bagchi and a male version by Shail Hada — from Sukoon, filmmaker-composer Sanjay Leela Bhansali's debut non-film music album, released by Saregama on 30 November–8 December 2022. Written by A. M. Turaz in the classical ghazal idiom, the song sets a plea of exclusive, almost devotional devotion — 'let nothing but you be visible to me' — over a delicate arrangement built around sitar, tabla and light percussion, arranged and programmed by Shreyas Puranik with Shubham and Saurabh Wakhare. Sukoon marked the first time Bhansali, known for his opulent film scores (Devdas, Bajirao Mastani, Padmaavat), composed a standalone non-film album, conceived as a two-year labour of love and dedicated to Lata Mangeshkar; the nine-track record spans ghazal, semi-classical and folk idioms with lyrics adapted from Ghalib and Momin Khan Momin alongside original verse by Turaz, Siddharth-Garima and Kumaar. Siva Tere (Female) sits among the album's quieter, more intimate tracks, built to be a mood piece rather than a chart single.

Sanjay Leela Bhansali composed Siva Tere in the register of a slow, contemplative ghazal, giving Madhubanti Bagchi's rendition room to breathe rather than reaching for spectacle. The arrangement, credited to Shreyas Puranik with Shubham and Saurabh Wakhare, leans on sitar (played by Ananya Wadkar) and tabla (Sanjeev Sen) with bass by Manas Chowdhary and rhythm/percussion by Dipesh Varma — a small, acoustic-forward ensemble that keeps the focus on Bagchi's voice and the repeated, incantatory mukhda. Pairing the same composition with a male vocal reading by Shail Hada elsewhere on the album lets Bhansali explore how the same melodic and lyrical material shifts in emotional colour across a different singer.

A. M. Turaz's lyric works in the classic ghazal register of exclusive devotion — the beloved is asked to be the singer's entire field of vision, with the plea extended further into wanting no release ('rihaai na de') from the punishment ('saza') of that devotion. The vocabulary — 'siva' (besides), 'khuda' (God, invoked as witness), 'saza' and 'rihaai' — draws on the shared Hindi-Urdu poetic lexicon long used in ghazal writing, framing romantic longing in almost devotional, prayer-like terms, a hallmark of the traditional idiom Turaz and Bhansali were reviving across the Sukoon album.

Sukoon is not tied to any film; it is Sanjay Leela Bhansali's standalone debut as a non-film album composer, released by Saregama on 30 November 2022 (with individual tracks including Siva Tere going live on YouTube around 7–8 December 2022). Bhansali described the nearly two-year-long project as an ode to Lata Mangeshkar, curating nine ghazal, semi-classical and folk-inflected compositions sung by a mix of established and younger voices — Rashid Khan, Shreya Ghoshal, Armaan Malik, Pratibha Singh Baghel, Papon, Madhubanti Bagchi and Shail Hada. Siva Tere, presented in both female and male renditions, exemplifies the album's approach of building each song as a self-contained mood piece rather than a narrative tied to any screen story.

As part of Sukoon, Siva Tere (Female) belongs to an album that received a mixed-to-positive critical reception — praised by some critics as 'an album of endless discovery' offering a fresh idiom for ghazal in the modern era (a view Shreya Ghoshal, one of the album's singers, echoed in press interviews), while other reviewers found individual tracks lacking sufficient emotional depth. The song itself has not charted individually, but its Saregama YouTube upload has drawn a steady audience in the low hundred-thousands of views, and it remains part of Bhansali's broader effort to establish himself as a music composer beyond his film scores.