The ‘Gehraiyaan’ script inspired my lyrics, says Ankur Tewari

The lyricist on the making of the film’s title track, centered around modern day relationships

The Deepika Padukone-Siddhant Chaturvedi-Ananya Panday starrer Gehraiyaan is set for February 11 release and the video of the title track ‘Tu marz hai dawa bhi; Par aadat hai humein...’ gives a glimpse into the core subject of forbidden relationships.

For lyricist Ankur Tewari, the song was inspired “totally by what the script asked for”. “It is a beautiful screenplay by Shakun Batra and Ayesha DeVitre. The script explores modern-day relationships in an urban setting, and it was quite inspiring to be a part of it as a lyricist,” he says.

Ankur was supervising the music for Gehraiyaan and while making the teaser for the film, he decided to use the song ‘Frontline’ by OAFF, which was in English and rendered by singer Lothika Jha. Ankur penned the Hindi lyrics and made Lothika sing the Hindi version as well. “The film is about giving in to temptation, knowing that it is not going to work. That is pretty much how these words fell into place. ‘You are my medicine, and you are my ailment and yet I give in to it.”’