सिवा तेरे (पुरुष)

Siva Tere (सिवा तेरे) is one of two versions — this the male rendition sung by Shail Hada — of a ghazal from Sukoon (2022), the debut non-film music album composed and produced by celebrated filmmaker Sanjay Leela Bhansali, released by Saregama India on 30 November 2022. Written by lyricist A. M. Turaz, the song sits as the closing (ninth) track of the nine-song album, mirroring the earlier female version sung by Madhubanti Bagchi that appears mid-album. Bhansali conceived Sukoon during the COVID-19 production halt on Gangubai Kathiawadi, wanting to build a ghazal album 'accessible to millennials' while honouring the ghazal legends of his own childhood; the album was dedicated to Lata Mangeshkar. Siva Tere (Male) did not chart commercially in the way Bhansali's film songs do, but it drew a dedicated audience among ghazal and semi-classical listeners for Shail Hada's restrained, emotive vocal delivery of Turaz's Urdu-inflected verse.

Sanjay Leela Bhansali's composition for Siva Tere (Male) leans into the restrained, semi-classical ghazal idiom that defines Sukoon — a sparse arrangement built to foreground Shail Hada's vocal, with minimal instrumental ornamentation letting each line of Turaz's verse breathe. As the album's closing track, it functions as a quieter, lower-register counterpart to the female version sung earlier by Madhubanti Bagchi, giving the same melodic idea two distinct emotional readings across the record.

A. M. Turaz's lyric works in classic ghazal couplets of devoted surrender: the beloved eclipses everything else in sight ('siva tere kuch bhi dikhai na de'), and the singer inverts the usual plea for freedom into a request that God withhold it — the 'punishment' of loving is one he wants to keep. The vocabulary (siva, rihaai, saza) draws from the shared Urdu-Hindi poetic register that gives ghazal its intimate, devotional-romantic register, blurring earthly love and prayer in a single verse.

Siva Tere (Male) is not tied to any film; it belongs entirely to Sukoon, the standalone ghazal album Sanjay Leela Bhansali conceived and self-produced during the pandemic-forced pause on Gangubai Kathiawadi. Bhansali has spoken about how demanding the format was for him, comparing the effort of composing a single ghazal to that of scoring an entire film. The album features a roster of singers across its nine tracks — including Rashid Khan, Shreya Ghoshal, Armaan Malik, Papon, Sharmin Segal, Madhubanti Bagchi, Pratibha Baghel and Shail Hada — with Siva Tere appearing twice, in female and male voice, bookending different points of the tracklist.

As a niche, non-film ghazal release, Siva Tere (Male) never chased mainstream chart metrics, but it holds a place within Sukoon as evidence of Bhansali's first foray into standalone music-making outside cinema — a personal, ghazal-first project dedicated to Lata Mangeshkar's memory. Its official video on Bhansali's own YouTube channel has drawn over a hundred thousand views, modest by film-song standards but respectable for an unpromoted ghazal single, reflecting a smaller but engaged audience for the album's semi-classical repertoire.