Metro In Dino: a track guide to Pritam's 2025 soundtrack

Some Bollywood soundtracks are a couple of singles and a few fillers. Metro... In Dino is the opposite — a sprawling, ambitious 22-track album that treats film music as a body of work rather than a promotional checklist. Reuniting director Anurag Basu with composer Pritam, it is a spiritual successor to their beloved Life in a... Metro (2007), and one of the most music-forward Hindi films of 2025.

The film, an anthology of interlocking modern-city love stories, reached cinemas on 4 July 2025 with an ensemble cast including Aditya Roy Kapur, Sara Ali Khan, Ali Fazal, Fatima Sana Shaikh, Konkona Sen Sharma and Pankaj Tripathi. Below is a guide to the songs leading its soundtrack — and the voices that carry them.

"Qayde Se" — the flagship Arijit single

The album's lead single, "Qayde Se", is the kind of warm, melody-led love song the Basu-Pritam-Arijit axis has produced for years. Sung by Arijit Singh, composed by Pritam and written by Amitabh Bhattacharya, it was released by T-Series on 1 July 2025, three days before the film. Its title — roughly "properly" or "the right way" — frames a gentle plea to love sincerely, without games.

"Aur Mohabbat Kitni Karoon" — devotion taken to its limit

Another Arijit Singh highlight, "Aur Mohabbat Kitni Karoon", is a soulful ballad whose title asks "how much more should I love you?" Composed by Pritam with lyrics by Sandeep Shrivastava, it is an ode to quiet, complete devotion — the voice of someone who has already given their whole heart and wonders what more there is to give.

"Yaad" — classical poetry on a 2025 soundtrack

Perhaps the album's most distinctive choice is "Yaad", sung by Papon. Its lyrics adapt a 19th-century ghazal by the classical Urdu poet Momin Khan Momin, with additional lyrics by Sandeep Shrivastava — a reminder of how deep the ghazal tradition still runs through Hindi film music. Papon's folk-rooted, restrained voice turns remembrance itself into the song's subject, and it quickly became a popular social-media audio.

A 22-track statement

What makes Metro... In Dino notable is its scale. Split across a "Side A" and "Side B", the soundtrack draws on a wide roster of singers — among them Raghav Chaitanya, Vishal Mishra, Sachet Tandon, Shreya Ghoshal, B Praak, Shilpa Rao and Neeti Mohan — across 22 tracks. Few 2025 films committed to a soundtrack of this ambition, and fewer still tied it so tightly to a single composer's vision. You can browse the full Metro... In Dino album on LyricsSol, with credits for each release.

Beyond the lead singles

The depth of the album is in its supporting cast. Across Side A and Side B, Pritam hands songs to a deliberately varied set of voices — Vishal Mishra, Raghav Chaitanya, Sachet Tandon, Shreya Ghoshal, B Praak, Shilpa Rao and Neeti Mohan among them — so the soundtrack moves through different textures rather than repeating one formula. That breadth is the point of a 22-track album: it lets a single film hold tender ballads, upbeat numbers and ghazal-tinged pieces side by side, mirroring the multiple love stories the film itself is juggling.

Why the Basu-Pritam reunion matters

Anurag Basu has always treated music as central rather than decorative; Life in a... Metro is remembered as much for its songs as its stories. Bringing Pritam back for a thematic sequel raised expectations, and the soundtrack largely meets them — balancing radio-ready singles like "Qayde Se" with more literary, classically minded selections like "Yaad". The result is a soundtrack that rewards listening as an album, not just a playlist of pre-release singles.

For Pritam, Metro... In Dino was one of several major 2025 soundtracks — a year we look at in more detail in our feature on Pritam in 2025. For listeners, it is a reminder that the Hindi film album, at its best, can still be an event.

Start with the lead single: "Qayde Se" by Arijit Singh.