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Ude Dil Befikre

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Wikipedia article




"'Ude Dil Befikre'" is a Bollywood song from the soundtrack of the 2016 Indian feature film 'Befikre'. The song is composed by VishalShekhar, written by Jaideep Sahni and sung by Vishal Dadlani, Benny Dayal. The music video features Ranveer Singh, and Vaani Kapoor, and it was released by Yash Raj Films.

The composer duo VishalShekhar composed the song on a stairwell. Ranveer Singh asked background actors to slap him in the face to help him achieve the desired expressions on the music video; he was slapped 21 times. The song was released on 3 November 2016.

Background



The song is written by Jaideep Sahni, extra French vocals by Sophie Choudry, and choreographed by Vaibhavi Merchant. Composers VishalShekhar said that the entire song was composed on a stairwell. The duo said that it was hard to find the right singer for the song, explaining: "When someone suggested Benny Dayal's name for the song and we were like he's a south Indian, we want someone who can get Arabic nuances", then they found out that Dayal spent his childhood in Oman and knew Arabic music. Later, they described him as "He came in and nailed it".

Music video



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The music video is set in Paris. Ranveer Singh described the weather during the filming as: "so cold that Adi [Aditya Chopra] has to come to us saying you are not feeling cold". The song features UNESCO heritage sites from France, as a member of the film crew told Bollywood Hungama:

Choreographer Vaibhavi Merchant said that film director Aditya Chopra wanted to "scale up the level of craziness". The director titled the song as a 'dare song' and revealed that in the video the on-screen characters would assign each other for a few dares, but Merchant explained that "that was not it for even the choreographers had a tough task at hand to complete the song in scheduled time". When filming the music video, actor Ranveer Singh asked the background actors to slap him hard across his face to ensure that he got the right expressions for the music video, and was slapped 21 times.

In the music video, Vaani Kapoor and Ranveer Singh's characters dare each other to do various things such as "stripteases, ballet on the streets and stealing a football from the stadium during an ongoing match".

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|Asian Music Charts (Official Charts Company)

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|'The Times of India' Mirchi Top 20 Chart

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Release



The song was released on 3 November 2016. It received 9 million views on YouTube in its two weeks of release.

Devansh Sharma of 'Firstpost' wrote, "Vishal-Shekhar's energetic and high-octane music serves as an appropriate background score and Benny Dayal's vocals adds the punch". Rachit Gupta writing for 'Filmfare' said that the visuals of "Ude Dil Befikre" "are gold standard". Urvi Parikh of 'Pink Villa' said that the song is "spot on". 'India' wrote: "[the song] tries too hard to be unabashed love. But simply put the song both lyrically and visually is repetitive". News18 wrote that: "[the song] will force you to dance carefree wherever you are". Bollywood Hungama called the song "a visual treat".

'The Himalayan Times' wrote: "Songs Nashe Si Chadh Gayi and Ude Dil Befirke make the audience groove and sing with them". Suparna Thombare of Cinestaan wrote: "Ude Dil Befikre is a joyride and an easy-on-the-ears party number". 'India Today' wrote: "The high octane number, composed by Vishal-Shekhar and sung by Benny Dayal, is catchy and does not go the old-school way of mush and romance".

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References




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