Raabta is a romantic song from the movie Agent Vinod (2012) which had Saif Ali Khan and his present wife Kareena Kapoor Khan playing his love interest. The movie was directed by Sriram Raghavan who is known for his films Johnny Gaddar and Badlapur which got critical acclaim and were commercially good too.
Why this song? Why now? might be the question in your mind now. Let's start with the numbers.
1. This song has three other versions other than the one that was used in the movie.
- Raabta by Arijit Singh ( Tum Hi Ho and many more soulful songs)
- Raabta (Night in a Motel): vocals by Aditi Singh Sharma ( Sooraj Dooba Hain fame)
- Raabta (Siyaah Raatein): vocals by Hamsika Iyer ( Chammak Challo fame)
- Raabta (Kehte Hain Khuda Ne): vocals by Shreya Goshal (No intro needed, her Wikipedia page is so long that a separate page was needed to be created to include her discography. Anyways she has won 4 national awards. One of them was for Yeh Ishq Haaye” for Jab We Met (2007)
All 2,3,4 songs had the additional vocal of Mr Soul Stirring Singer Arijit Singh.
