The first four lines of the lori [lullaby] I have written for Dhaakad is actually one that my grandmother sang to me. It has been passed down from one generation to another. I have been singing it to my children for nine years. But, since my grandmother is no more, most of us remember only a few lines. I had the task to build on them.” 

Former actress Ishita Arun is talking about So ja re, a track in the just-released Kangana Ranaut starrer-Dhaakad, for which she wrote the lyrics; her musician husband Dhru Ghanekar is the composer. Ghanekar says that the lullaby’s missing lines gave him space to improvise with Arun, before it was rendered by Sunidhi Chauhan and Hariharan.  This isn’t the first time the couple is working together. Arun says she has been writing a lot for Ghanekar’s advertising campaigns. “It started off as me having to step in for a writer who hadn’t turned up one day. Then it became a long-term thing. Everyone knows I act, but a few know that I write.” Arun has also written the title track, sung by Vasundhara Vee.