For more than 300 years, the poetry of Sayyid Abdullah Shah Qadri, better known as Bulleh Shah, has outlived empires, borders and generations. Chal Bulleya was independently released on Spotify on July 3 where singer Radhika Sood Nayak and musician Neil Mukherjee have given the 18th-century Sufi poet’s message of equality and humanity a contemporary soundtrack in the hope of introducing it to younger listeners.

“The track has been in the pipeline for a very long time. Neil had the melody in mind before we even met, but when we eventually started working together, he asked me to sing it. I genuinely feel it has a destiny of its own because it waited for us to meet. It also gave me the opportunity to choose Bulleh Shah couplets that best suited the melody and reflected what we wanted to say,” shares Sood Nayak.