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Toh Phir Aao was also never written for a film!

Mustafa Zahid, born in Lahore in 1984, was a college kid who loved music more than anything else. He co-founded a band called Roxen in 2004, and the very first demo song they ever uploaded online was Toh Phir Aao. That demo registered over 65,000 downloads in one month , which in 2004, with the internet barely accessible to most people, was a phenomenon.

Roxen’s debut album Rozen-E-Deewar released in 2006 and featured Tera Mera Rishta, which was originally titled Aana Jaana. It was a rock ballad about longing, written by a young man from Lahore for his band, with no Bollywood ambitions whatsoever.

Mahesh and Mukesh Bhatt personally reached out and invited Mustafa to sing for Awarapan. Mohit Suri, who was directing, asked him to rework the lyrics slightly to suit the film’s world.

The music did not just support that film. It outlived it.
Both songs became cult classics of a generation. Toh Phir Aao especially became one of those tracks that people associate with a specific heartbreak, a specific year, a specific version of themselves they can never fully return to.

Mustafa went on to sing Bhula Dena for Aashiqui 2 and Zaroorat for Ek Villain , and Tere Bina cementing a career built entirely on songs that sound like they were written specifically for your worst night.

And Emraan Hashmi became synonymous with music we just can’t get enough of!

Imagine! A song is so popular that it just had to be used in the sequel, i.e., Awarapan 2.
Did you watch it though?