25 years into a career that has helped shape Indian independent music, singer-songwriter, lyricist and composer Ankur Tewari continues the journey of Mr. Faarigh with Kasam Se, which released on 3rd July 2026.

Where 1.15 AM (After Hours) opened the world of Mr. Faarigh through the voices outside — the city, the night, the movement, and the noise people surround themselves with to quiet what is happening within — Kasam Se moves into a more private emotional space.

The song explores the quiet aftermath of repeated disappointment — the kind that slowly erodes self-worth rather than arriving in one dramatic moment. As trust breaks down, the question turns inward: not why someone let you down, but whether you were wrong to believe in them at all. Kasam Se becomes a quiet promise to resist that instinct, holding onto softness even after heartbreak.

The word “faarigh”, drawn from Urdu and Arabic usage, can mean idle, free, unhurried, unfinished or at leisure. Across the album, Ankur reframes that state not as weakness, but as something deeply human: the value of the unfinished, the imperfect and the in-process.

Within that larger world, Kasam Se is about the voices in the head that grow louder after love has failed — the self-doubt, the replayed conversations, the things said only to oneself, and the quiet effort it takes to remain gentle despite it all.

Speaking about the track, Ankur Tewari shares, "Each betrayal leaves its mark; not just a wound, but a theft. Something luminous, quietly taken. We grow sharper with every scar, more knowing, more guarded; but wisdom has its cost, and innocence pays it. Kasam Se is a vow to hold on. To cup that last ember of wonder in your hands and refuse to let the cold put it out. To walk through a world that has shown you its teeth and still believe in magic. To love again, fully, recklessly, as though your heart has never learned what breaking feels like”.

Over the course of his career, Ankur Tewari has built one of Indian independent music's defining catalogues while also shaping the country's musical landscape through songwriting, screen music and curation. With Mr. Faarigh, that world enters one of its most personal and contemporary chapters, bringing together emotional vulnerability, reflection and the unresolved thoughts people often carry privately.

With Kasam Se, he continues the emotional arc of Mr. Faarigh. After the outside noise of 1:15 AM (After Hours), the album now turns to what remains when that noise fades — the conversations we have only with ourselves. It is where the album begins to listen instead of escape.

Album Release Date: 20th August 2026