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Dhurandhar (soundtrack)

2025 soundtrack album by Shashwat Sachdev

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 7, 2026
Entity authorityQ137441575
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Dhurandhar is the soundtrack album to the 2025 film of the same name written and directed by Aditya Dhar and produced by Aditya Dhar, Lokesh Dhar and Jyoti Deshpande under Jio Studios and B62 Studios. The film stars Ranveer Singh, Akshaye Khanna, R. Madhavan, Sanjay Dutt, Arjun Rampal, Rakesh Bedi and Sara Arjun. The soundtrack consisted of six songs, three of them being previously released as singles, composed by Shashwat Sachdev, with lyrics written by Irshad Kamil. The soundtrack was released through Saregama on 1 December 2025, coinciding with the film's audio launch event held in Mumbai. The extended album with five additional songs was released on 10 December 2025.

The soundtrack emerged as the first Bollywood film soundtrack to have every track chart simultaneously within the Spotify Global Top 200.

Development

In July 2025, it was announced that Shashwat Sachdev would compose the soundtrack and film score, marking his second collaboration with Aditya Dhar following Uri: The Surgical Strike (2019). The music rights were acquired by Saregama.

The soundtrack notably features several retro classic Hindi songs remixed and sampled with a modern touch.

Release

The title track was released on 15 October 2025.

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“Dhurandhar (soundtrack)” enters the record as 2025 soundtrack album by Shashwat Sachdev. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Dhurandhar, soundtrack and album can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from Dhurandhar (soundtrack)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.