It started with a single line, scribbled on the back of a chai receipt. Six months later, that line had become a song streamed 12 million times.
In this deep-dive, we sit down with Aarav Khan, the writer behind 'Saanjhi Saansein', to trace the song from candlelight inspiration to mastered master.
The melody came first — a four-note descent that Aarav hummed into his phone at 2 AM. The lyrics followed, slowly, over weeks of revising and re-feeling. 'I wanted it to sound like a memory you didn't know you had,' he says.
