तू बिछड़े तो

Tu Bichhde Toh (तू बिछड़े तो) is one of the ten tracks on the soundtrack of Raksha Bandhan (2022), Aanand L. Rai's family drama starring Akshay Kumar and Bhumi Pednekar, released by Zee Music Company as part of a full album composed entirely by Himesh Reshammiya with lyrics by Irshad Kamil. The song is sung by newcomer Nihal Tauro alongside Reshammiya himself, continuing the composer-as-co-vocalist pattern seen across his recent scores. Released around the film's 6 August 2022 theatrical date, it sits within an album dominated by the runaway hit 'Dhaagon Se Baandhaa' and did not chart independently, but it showcases Reshammiya's continuing collaboration with rising singer Nihal Tauro across the soundtrack (including 'Tere Saath Hoon Main' and the 'Atak Gaya' versions).

Himesh Reshammiya keeps the arrangement restrained compared to the album's bigger, more percussive numbers — a medium-tempo melodic bed built to let Nihal Tauro's voice carry the emotional weight of the lyric, with Reshammiya's own vocal layered in for texture rather than lead duty. It follows Reshammiya's established pattern on the Raksha Bandhan soundtrack of pairing his newer discovery, Tauro, with his own voice across multiple tracks.

Irshad Kamil's lyric works through direct, almost declarative parallelism — 'tu bichhde toh, tu mar jaaye / main bichhdoon toh main mar jaaoon' — mirroring both lovers' fates back at each other to argue that their bond has erased the distinction between separation and death. The refrain 'ishq manaaye phir maatam' (love then observes mourning) frames devotion itself as a kind of ritual grief, a recurring idea in Kamil's writing for intense, vow-like romantic songs.

Raksha Bandhan follows Lala Kedarnath (Akshay Kumar), a man who delays his own marriage to Sapna (Bhumi Pednekar) until he can get his four younger sisters married off, navigating dowry pressures across Delhi's Chandni Chowk. Directed by Aanand L. Rai and produced under his banner with Zee Studios, the film opened on 11 August 2022 (Raksha Bandhan festival day), clashing head-on with Aamir Khan's Laal Singh Chaddha at the box office. The soundtrack, composed in full by Himesh Reshammiya, released progressively through July–August 2022 with 'Tu Bichhde Toh' among the album's ten tracks, a lower-profile companion to lead singles like 'Dhaagon Se Baandhaa'.

Tu Bichhde Toh did not become an independent chart hit — the Raksha Bandhan soundtrack's cultural footprint rests almost entirely on 'Dhaagon Se Baandhaa', which crossed 100 million+ YouTube views. This track's lasting relevance is instead as part of Nihal Tauro's growing catalogue with Himesh Reshammiya, showcasing the composer's continued practice of introducing newer voices within his own film scores.