While Gulzar recited a poem he wrote in this song, Shubha Mudgal sang Rituparno Ghosh's lyrics.
Director Rituparno Ghosh gave Gulzar a Bengali poem by Shakti Chattopadhyay as a reference for the poem in this song. When Gulzar translated the original poem into Hindi, Ghosh asked him to rewrite it in his own words.[1]