Half yearly round up: my top 5 tracks of the year 2026

Mitti Ke Bete - Border 2

Main aur Tu - Dhurandhar The Revenge

Aakhri Ishq - Dhurandhar The Revenge

Jaiye Sajana - Dhurandhar The Revenge

O Mere Balam - Welcome To The Jungle

1. Aari aari Dhurandhar

2-4. Tujhko, Leher, Jab Talak- Cocktail 2

5. Title song - Chand Mera dil

6. Sitaare- Ikkis

"Chand mera dil" tittle track has intoxicated me like a drug lol....I am playing it on loop...There is something raw,real and gut-wrenching in the lyrics, music and Faheem Abdullah has sung it with all his heart and poured all his pain out in this song....

Khwaab dekhoon is a beautiful song. I like Junaid. I wanted to watch this movie.

I like Khawab Dekhoon, Gehra hua, and Masooqa.

You are asking about"Chand mera dil" ??

Even though it was not a perfect movie in any way but I really really liked it..I have already seen it twice and would definitely watch it once it comes on OTT...

What I kept going back to the moment I think of the movie is the pre-interval altercation between them which was the turning point in the movie...

It is where Aarav finally breaks...but what makes it special is the way the movie has shown the process of Aarav spiralling down...

Even though that pre-interval scene was dramatic but Aarav's process of breaking is Not dramatic, Not like the heroes in films who collapse under thunder and background music. He breaks like real people do.. quietly at first, with exhaustion sitting in his bones, with disappointment rotting inside him day after day, with sleepless nights and unspoken fears piling up until one terrible moment changes everything.

And that is why the film hurts.

Because Chand Mera Dil is not really about a perfect love story. It is about two young people who loved each other deeply but stepped into adulthood before they were emotionally ready for it.

Aarav and Chandni are not villains. They are not toxic caricatures designed to make one person look entirely right and the other entirely wrong. They are simply two wounded kids trying to build a home while carrying the ruins of their own childhoods inside them.

That is what makes the film feel painfully human for me.

At first, the film feels light and warm. Hyderabad glows around them. Their flirting feels effortless. The camera moves with the restlessness of youth. Chandni smiles like someone who has finally found softness after years of emotional neglect, and Aarav looks at her like she is the first real thing in his carefully controlled life.And for a while, they are happy.

But happiness in Chand Mera Dil is fragile from the beginning....

I really like how this movie didn't show a surface level fluffy romance but identified depth..Chandni comes from a home shaped by emotional violence. Aarav comes from a home shaped by emotional absence. One grew up craving affection. The other grew up without knowing how to express it. They fall in love not because they are complete people, but because they recognize loneliness in each other...I like that...

Another thing I liked is the pregnancy part...One of the most beautiful things about the film is that it does not reduce this decision into a simplistic moral debate. Aarav is not cruel for feeling unprepared. Chandni is not selfish for wanting to keep the baby. They are both terrified. They are both emotional. They are both making choices they barely understand.

And yet Aarav stays.That matters to me...

He stays even though he knows he is not ready. He stays even though he is scared. He stays because he loves her, because guilt and responsibility and tenderness all become tangled together inside him. He tries to become a husband and a father and a provider overnight while still being a student himself. The way their struggle was shown..not in a typical Dharma- coded glamorous manner but only in the form of exhaustion.A crying baby.Placement pressure.Tuition classes.side hussles .Financial anxiety.Sleepless nights.

The humiliation of watching everyone else move ahead while you stand still inspite of being a brilliant student. Aarav studies whenever he can steal a few moments from chaos...I could relate to Aarav in so many ways

Chandni, a young mother meanwhile, is physically and emotionally collapsing under motherhood and postpartum depression. Neither of them truly has the strength left to emotionally hold the other...

People often compare Chand Mera Dil to Thappad, but emotionally, they are completely different films.

In Thappad, the violence becomes unbearable because the husband does not truly understand the damage he has caused. Even after slapping his wife publicly, his instinct is still to center himself , his disappointment, his anger, his wounded ego. The slap is horrifying not just because it happens, but because of the entitlement and emotional blindness surrounding it.

Aarav is different.The second he hurts Chandni, he knows he has destroyed something sacred.

There is no arrogance in him afterward. No justification. No attempt to manipulate her into sympathy. No “look what you made me do.” He breaks instantly under the weight of his own action. He cries, apologizes, pleads, and most importantly .. he understands. Chandni never told him that you triggered my trauma ,you reminded me of how my father was with my mother..but Aarav understood that..he immediately understood that..

That does not erase what happened.But it changes the emotional meaning of it.

Because Aarav is not written as an abuser who feels entitled to violence. He is written as a deeply overwhelmed young man who failed catastrophically in the worst moment of his life.

And Chandni leaving him is still the right decision.

That is what made the writing mature.

The film does not punish Chandni for choosing self-respect over love. She understands Aarav’s pain. She still loves him deeply. She knows he is not evil. But she also knows that love alone cannot heal trauma, exhaustion, or broken emotional foundations.

“Izzat pyaar se badi hoti hai.”

Respect must come before love.

And yet the film refuses to turn Aarav into a monster so the separation becomes easier for the audience to digest. Instead, it leaves us with something much more uncomfortable: compassion for both of them.

You ache for Chandni because she has suffered too much for someone so young.

But you ache for Aarav too because you can see him trying, failing, drowning, and realizing too late that effort alone is not enough to sustain a marriage.

That complexity is what stays with you after the film ends....

The movie has one of the most impactful first-half in recent times....

But the second half is less consistent than the first. The writing begins to lean on familiar melodramatic devices: the predictable suitor, the inevitable family confrontation, the rain-soaked climax. These elements do not ruin the film, but they do soften the force of what had felt emotionally raw up to that point. ..There is also an arc of a cocky student in Aarav's tution class who beat him up ,him bleeding and all..I don't know why show it..

And I am very disappointed with the way they have written things with Chandni in second half...There was no inner monologue or reflection...and certain scenes were written in such a way that some people found Chandni rude and cruelly insensitive..which is a shame because Chandni was such a strong character....I wish write had made Chandni revisit her marriage once and recognise that she too was crushing under the pressure of motherhood and responsibilities and couldn't hold Aarav when he needed her ...Both of them struggled in their own way..

So yeah The story is strongest when it trusts the intimacy of its central relationship; it is weaker when it reaches for obvious romantic-cinema shortcuts.

1 tujko cocktail 2

2 mashooqa and leher, vallah cocktail 2

3 dil wale chor pati patni aur woh do

4. uncha hain lamba kad

5. hum to tere liye hi the o'romeo