वे कमलेया

Ve Kamleya (वे कमलेया) is the third single from Rocky Aur Rani Kii Prem Kahaani (2023), Karan Johar's culture-clash romantic dramedy starring Ranveer Singh and Alia Bhatt. Composed by Pritam with lyrics by Amitabh Bhattacharya, the track is sung by Arijit Singh, Shreya Ghoshal, and Sufi vocalists Shadab Faridi and Altamash Faridi, whose qawwali-trained voices give the song its distinctive devotional-romantic texture. Released as a single on 18 July 2023 — ten days ahead of the film's theatrical release on 28 July — the song became one of the year's most-streamed Bollywood tracks, crossing over 300 million YouTube views on the official Saregama video and racking up well over 150 million Spotify streams, alongside Sufi and Redux alternate versions also released around the film. It sits alongside 'Tum Kya Mile' as one of the soundtrack's two career-defining hits for Pritam and Amitabh Bhattacharya's 2023 collaboration.

Pritam builds Ve Kamleya on a foundation of Sufi qawwali phrasing, layering Shadab Faridi and Altamash Faridi's traditionally trained vocals — the pair come from a qawwali background — beneath and around Arijit Singh and Shreya Ghoshal's lead melody lines. The arrangement (credited to Rahul Tiwari, Himonshu Parikh and Sunny MR) uses hand percussion, harmonium-like textures and a building chorus structure typical of devotional Sufi music, repurposed here for a secular romantic anthem — a device Pritam has used across several of his 2020s soundtracks to give mainstream Bollywood songs a spiritual, communal-chant quality.

Amitabh Bhattacharya's lyric turns the beloved's own heart into the subject being addressed — calling it 'kamleya' (crazy one) and 'naadaan' (naive) for falling so completely and helplessly in love. The verse imagery of 'sau galiyare' (a hundred corridors) within a lover's eyes, and a heart too wild to be caged even by the sky, gives the song a Sufi-poetry register of surrender and bewildered devotion, echoing the qawwali tradition where romantic and spiritual longing are deliberately blurred.

Rocky Aur Rani Kii Prem Kahaani follows flamboyant Punjabi businessman Rocky Randhawa (Ranveer Singh) and intellectual Bengali journalist Rani Chatterjee (Alia Bhatt), who fall in love despite their opposite worlds and agree to live three months each with the other's family before marrying — a device director Karan Johar uses to examine patriarchy, gender roles and cultural prejudice within a mainstream family entertainer. Ve Kamleya plays during one of the film's romantic high points as the couple's connection deepens, its Sufi-devotional register underlining how their love feels less like a choice and more like something they've helplessly surrendered to.

Ve Kamleya's official Saregama Music video has crossed 300 million-plus YouTube views, and the track has logged well over 150 million Spotify streams, making it one of the most-streamed Hindi film songs of 2023. Its qawwali-inflected vocal blend of Arijit Singh, Shreya Ghoshal, Shadab Faridi and Altamash Faridi drew wide praise, and the song spawned a Sufi Version (with Asees Kaur) and a Redux version (with Tushar Joshi and Shreya Ghoshal) released around the film — a rare degree of alternate-version investment that reflects the soundtrack's overall commercial strength alongside its sister hit 'Tum Kya Mile'.