The standalone numbers were mentioned as mixed bag of intense, romantic songs and fun songs. In an interview early September 2016, Pritam announced the soundtrack album release by end of September 2016, with seven tracks. The track "Channa Mereya", "Bulleya" and the title track were the first ones to get approved by 2015. Johar narrated the script and gave situations of the songs which was a standard procedure they followed. Lyricist Amitabh Bhattacharya penned lyrics of the tunes keeping in mind the flavour of the film.
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He avoided pure romantic melodies as the movie was intense on emotions. As per him, the film was about unrequited love, so songs depended upon the situations and characters. Also, he called the soundtrack as "grand" and "romantic". Pritam acknowledged his experience to work with Johar as easiest and instinctive because the latter would approve or reject tunes on spot. Although Johar's production house and Pritam collaborated before, as a director-composer, the soundtrack was the first one. On 1 December 2014, Dharma Productions made an announcement related to the film, music to be composed by Pritam. Burman Award for New Music Talent by Filmfare for the track "Bulleya". The music of the film was nominated for several awards, including Filmfare Awards where Pritam won the Best Music Director Award, Bhattacharya and Arijit Singh won the Best Lyricist ("Channa Mereya") and Best Playback Singer (Male) titles. Additionally, the song " An Evening in Paris" was released a bonus single by Saregama. Instrumental versions of the standard edition of the soundtrack were also released. Owing to the positive critical reception of music in the film and audience response, the deluxe edition was released with three additional tracks, reprise and unplugged versions of "Bulleya" and " Channa Mereya" respectively and a dubstep remix of the track "Aaj Jaane Ki Zid Na Karo". The standard edition of the soundtrack consists of six original songs and was released by Sony Music India. "Bulleya" incorporates the sufi genre whereas the "Channa Mereya" is a fusion folk track. The tracks "Bulleya" and "Channa Mereya" served as second and third singles both were successful at the Radio Mirchi music charts and set new streaming records on digital music platforms in India. As per trends by Google, the track was the topmost Hindi song in India during 2016-17. The title track, which served the first single from the soundtrack was an instantaneously composed with predictable rhymes. Given the intensity of the screenplay, Pritam composed mix of romantic, intense and fun songs unlike routine romantic numbers. It is based on film's theme on unrequited love, consisting situational numbers portraying emotions of characters Ayan ( Ranbir Kapoor), Saba ( Aishwarya Rai Bachchan), Alizeh ( Anushka Sharma) and Ali ( Fawad Khan).
The soundtrack album marks first collaboration of Johar and Pritam, although the latter composed for several films produced by Dharma Productions. O heart, it is difficult) is the soundtrack album composed by Pritam, with lyrics written by Amitabh Bhattacharya for the 2016 Hindi romance film of the same name directed by Karan Johar.