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'Tum Ho Toh' (When You Are There) is a 5:18-minute romantic duet from Saiyaara (YRF Music, 2025), composed and co-sung by Vishal Mishra alongside debutant Hansika Pareek, with lyrics by veteran Raj Shekhar. It represents the album's most straightforwardly romantic moment — the early days of Krish and Vaani's love, before illness introduces its shadow. Vishal Mishra brings his signature melodic warmth to a composition that leans into Bollywood's most classical romantic-duet tradition.

Vishal Mishra's composition for 'Tum Ho Toh' is built on descending melodic phrases that feel like gentle surrenders — each musical resolution is a small act of giving in. His voice, which has become one of Bollywood's most recognisable in the mid-2020s, pairs naturally with Hansika Pareek's cleaner, more airier register. The five-plus minute runtime allows the song to develop through several emotional textures, from tentative opening to full orchestral bloom.

Raj Shekhar's lyric is in the classical tradition of celebrating presence rather than absence — the beloved is here, and the song is entirely about the miracle of that fact. This is rare in a soundtrack album dominated by loss; 'Tum Ho Toh' is the album's only unambiguously happy song.

Hansika Pareek was a singer virtually unknown outside independent music circles before Saiyaara. Vishal Mishra specifically requested her for 'Tum Ho Toh' after hearing her cover of an older Bollywood song that circulated on Instagram — an increasingly common pipeline from social media to mainstream Bollywood.

'Tum Ho Toh' became the Saiyaara album's wedding-playlist anchor — the rare track from the film's deeply melancholic soundtrack that couples could play without the social cost of a heartbreak ballad. Its placement on Spotify India's wedding playlists throughout the second half of 2025 gave it a long streaming tail.