"Tere Liye"
Song by Madan Mohan Madan Mohan Madan Mohan Kohli , better known as Madan Mohan, was a famed Bollywood film music director of the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s...
From the soundtrack of Veer-Zaara Veer-Zaara The soundtrack was released on CD and specially on Audio DVD. The music is based on old and untouched compositions by the late Madan Mohan, as revised by his son Sanjeev Kohli....
Album released	2004
Genre	Film Music
Song Length	5.27
Producer Record producer A record producer is an individual working within the music industry, whose job is to oversee and manage the recording of an artist's music...	Madan Mohan Madan Mohan Madan Mohan Kohli , better known as Madan Mohan, was a famed Bollywood film music director of the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s...

"Tere Liye" (Hindi

Hindi

Standard Hindi, or more precisely Modern Standard Hindi, also known as Manak Hindi , High Hindi, Nagari Hindi, and Literary Hindi, is a standardized and sanskritized register of the Hindustani language derived from the Khariboli dialect of Delhi...

: तेरे लिये, Urdu

Urdu

Urdu is a register of the Hindustani language that is identified with Muslims in South Asia. It belongs to the Indo-European family. Urdu is the national language and lingua franca of Pakistan. It is also widely spoken in some regions of India, where it is one of the 22 scheduled languages and an...

: تیرے لِیے) is a song from the movie Veer-Zaara

Veer-Zaara

The soundtrack was released on CD and specially on Audio DVD. The music is based on old and untouched compositions by the late Madan Mohan, as revised by his son Sanjeev Kohli....

, directed by Yash Chopra

Yash Chopra

Yash Raj Chopra is an Indian filmmaker, film director, screenwriter, and a highly successful Bollywood producer. Waqt, Deewar, Kabhi Kabhie, Silsila, Lamhe, Chandni, Darr, Dil To Pagal Hai, and Veer-Zaara are some of his highly popular movies...

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About the song

The music for this song was composed by the Late Madan Mohan (director) and recreated by his son Sanjeev Kohli and is sung by Roop Kumar Rathod

Roop Kumar Rathod

-Personal life:Roopkumar is the son of the late Pandit Chaturbhuj Rathod, the classical luminary – an exponent of the rare and arguably the oldest style of singing i.e. Dhrupad. He belonged to the “Aditya Gharana of Jamnagar”. Pandit Rathod has trained and groomed many well known names like...

 and Lata Mangeshkar

Lata Mangeshkar

Lata Mangeshkar is a singer from India. She is one of the best-known and most respected playback singers in India. Mangeshkar's career started in 1942 and has spanned over six and a half decades. She has recorded songs for over a thousand Hindi films and has sung songs in over thirty-six regional...

. The lyrics were scripted by lyricist-scriptwriter Javed Akhtar

Javed Akhtar

Javed Akhtar is a poet, lyricist and scriptwriter from India. Some of his most successful work was done in the late 1970s and 1980s with Salim Khan as half of the script-writing duo credited as Salim-Javed...

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Music video

The song is the last and second last song of the movie. The song lyrics is kind of a summary or central idea of the movie. The video is filmed in the court. Also the song contain scenes when Veer and Zaara change from old to young and again old. The last song is also Tere Liye but with a change lyrics and same music.

Trivia

• This song was first being used for the movie Mausam because the lyrics of the song were first the same as Dil dhoondta hai as the original song can be heard in the Veer-Zaara: Collector's Double DVD Pack bonus disc.

• Yash Chopra's favourite song from the album.