Filmmaker Rishabh Anupam Sahay Steps Into Music with ‘Dil Udta Phire,’ Sung by Raghav Kaushik

Rishabh Anupam Sahay has spent over a decade telling stories through screen, page, and lens. Now he’s telling them through sound. With ‘Dil Udta Phire,’ sung by Raghav Kaushik, Rishabh makes his debut as a music artist not as a departure from his creative identity, but as its next logical extension.

For those who’ve followed his work, the name isn’t new. Rishabh is an award-winning filmmaker, published poet, scriptwriter, and visual artist whose body of work spans narrative formats most creators never attempt to hold together at once. He directed the acclaimed SonyLIV series Salt City, has built a reputation as a published bilingual poet, and has picked up international recognition for his photography, including honors at the PX3 Paris Photography Awards. Across all of it, one thread stays constant: Rishabh’s work is inherently narrative. Whether he’s behind a camera, a script, or now a microphone, he’s building a story lyrically, sonically, and visually.

That instinct is exactly what makes ‘Dil Udta Phire’ feel less like a debut single and more like a natural continuation. Rishabh has spent years writing bilingual poetry and lyrics, and composing and supervising music for his own shows and films. Moving into independent music wasn’t a pivot it was simply the moment his storytelling found a new format to live in.

Musically, ‘Dil Udta Phire’ sits at the intersection of indie, cinematic scoring, and modern Indian pop a sound built to work both within narrative formats and as standalone listening. Released on 2nd July 2026, the track is a lyrical meditation on restlessness, desire, and what Rishabh calls the quiet rebellion of the heart. It’s set in a suspended, almost timeless world, where days blur into years and the ordinary rules of time stop applying. From within that space, the song follows a protagonist who simply refuses to be contained.

At the emotional center of the track sits a single recurring question “dil ko roke kaun?” which becomes less a lyric and more the song’s spine, returned to again and again as the track builds. Around it, Rishabh plays with a striking duality: stillness pressed right up against suffocation, and on the other side, an almost intoxicated surrender to movement, to impulse, to dreams that don’t ask permission. The heart, in this song, is unplugged and more than a little reckless.

What’s most interesting about ‘Dil Udta Phire’ is what it refuses to do. It doesn’t try to resolve its own tension or explain the restlessness it describes. Instead, the song leans into the idea that not everything needs to be understood or controlled that sometimes slipping, drifting, or even getting a little lost is the entire point. It’s a very specific kind of surrender: to emotion, to rhythm, to the beautiful chaos of simply being alive. For a first musical release, that’s a fairly bold thesis to build a song around, and it says a lot about how deliberately Rishabh is approaching this new chapter.

With a pipeline of over 15 original tracks already in motion across different themes and moods, ‘Dil Udta Phire’ isn’t a one-off experiment it’s the opening piece of what looks like a much larger, cohesive musical universe. Given Rishabh’s background across film, photography, and poetry, that universe is likely to keep pulling from all three disciplines at once, which is part of what makes his entry into music worth watching closely.

For an artist whose work has always lived at the crossing point of mediums, ‘Dil Udta Phire’ feels like the right introduction not loud, not overexplained, just an artist letting his heart run a little wild and trusting the listener to run with it.

‘Dil Udta Phire,’ sung by Raghav Kaushik, is out now.

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