वक़्त ने किया इस क़दर सितम

The album's most classically Urdu composition, 'Waqt Ne Kiya Iss Qadar Sitam' returns to Mohammed Irfan and Palak Muchhal — the same pairing as the lead single 'Tere Bin Kahin Dil Na Lagey' — for a slow duet that frames romantic loss through the lens of time's relentless passage. Nadeem Saifi's melody is in a minor-register Bhairavi mode, and Sameer Anjaan's Urdu lyric — 'sitam' (cruelty), 'waqt' (time) — places the song squarely in the Bollywood tragedy tradition.

Nadeem Saifi builds 'Waqt Ne Kiya Iss Qadar Sitam' around a descending melodic motif that begins in the higher register and gradually resolves downward — a compositional choice that mirrors the lyrical theme of loss and decline. Mohammed Irfan's baritone handles the lower-register verses while Palak Muchhal's soprano carries the emotional peak in the chorus. The arrangement is deliberately sparse — piano, strings — to keep the focus on the two voices' interplay.

Sameer Anjaan's 'Waqt ne kiya iss qadar sitam' is a grammatically active construction: time is not passive but an active agent of cruelty. This anthropomorphization of time — giving it agency, malice, power — is a core device of Urdu poetry, from Ghalib's 'Dil-e-nadaan tujhe kya hua hai aakhir' to contemporary film lyrics. Sameer Anjaan deploys it with the same directness his father brought to romantic longing.

This song serves as the narrative bookend to 'Tere Bin Kahin Dil Na Lagey' in the Andaaz 2 storyline — where the lead song establishes the romantic need, 'Waqt Ne Kiya Iss Qadar Sitam' expresses the cost. Mohammed Irfan and Palak Muchhal were retained for this second duet to give the film's emotional arc coherence across the soundtrack.

As a Nadeem Saifi composition about time's cruelty, 'Waqt Ne Kiya Iss Qadar Sitam' joins a long tradition of Bollywood 'waqt songs' — from 'Waqt Ne Kiya Kya Haseen Sitam' (Kaagaz Ke Phool, 1959) to 'Kuchh Na Kaho' (1942: A Love Story, 1994). The 2025 version connects Andaaz 2 to this distinguished lineage of Hindi cinema's meditation on time and loss.