Identify the particular text

Start with a text that can actually be identified, rather than assuming a familiar recording supplies the poet’s complete words. Punjabi-Kavita presents Shiv Kumar Batalvi’s poem under the title Ishtihar. Its opening is associated with the phrase used as the song title Ikk Kudi, but the posted text continues through further verses before returning to the opening refrain. That page is an identifiable digital witness, not an autograph or a dated first edition. Citing its title and location makes a comparison repeatable while leaving the publication history unresolved.[1]

Separate writing, composition and performance

Zee Music Company’s 2018 Sahil Syndicate cover description distinguishes its new performers from the earlier Udta Punjab credits: Batalvi for lyrics, Amit Trivedi for music and Shahid Mallya as singer. Those are different creative roles. A later singer’s name on a track does not make that person the writer of its words, while a poet credit does not make the poet responsible for the later musical arrangement. The label’s credit record identifies attribution; it does not establish a line-by-line match with every published poem text.[2]

Apple Music’s soundtrack listing separately identifies Ikk Kudi, a Reprised Version and a Club Mix, with different performer credits. These labels distinguish recorded versions. They do not, by themselves, establish three different poem texts or explain which words each performance includes.[3]

Check evidence of adaptation

Reported creative decisions can clarify the relationship. Nonika Singh’s anniversary feature quotes lyricist Shellee saying he declined a request to add his own words to Ikk Kudi. The same feature reports a contrasting case: Irshad Kamil elaborated on Batalvi’s opening lines for Ajj Din Chadheya in Love Aaj Kal, according to filmmaker Imtiaz Ali. Such accounts identify different kinds of reuse, rather than one rule for every setting of a poet’s work. Establishing exact omissions, additions or rearrangements would still require comparison with a specified edition and the particular recording. Credits, a posted text and participant testimony answer related questions, but none alone settles the complete textual history.[4]

Sources & notes

Source records include access dates and, where known, limits on what was examined. Checks used AI assistance; independent human or specialist review has not been completed.

  1. Shiv Kumar Batalvi, attributed author; Punjabi-Kavita digital text. Ishtihar: Shiv Kumar Batalvi ↗primary digital text witness · Source date: publication date not established · Locator: Actual heading and complete posted poem, web lines 11–74; opening/repeated closing frame and intervening verses. Accessed 2026-11-02.Actual complete posted text inspected and retained. No source print edition, editorial apparatus or first-publication date is supplied by this page. It is described as one digital witness, not an authenticated original. No native quotation, translation or audio inspection is claimed; title and formal arrangement only are used.Return to Identify the particular text, paragraph 1 ↑
  2. Zee Music Company, official channel; written release description. Ikk Kudi – Cover Version | Sahil Syndicate ↗primary record-label credits · Source date: 2018-02-08 · Locator: Actual public HTML videoDetails.shortDescription: cover personnel and “Original Credits”; author and publishDate fields, 8 February 2018. Accessed 2026-11-02.Web reader failed, but normal public HTML fetch succeeded and actual full written description was extracted and inspected. Raw HTML and selected metadata retained locally. No video or audio audition is claimed. Credits describe the cover and restate the film version’s roles; they are not a first-edition poem witness. Conservative overlapping soundtrack-credit pool includes the Apple metadata.Return to Separate writing, composition and performance, paragraph 1 ↑
  3. Zee Music Company release metadata distributed by Apple Music. Udta Punjab (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) ↗primary release catalogue · Source date: 2016-05-18 · Locator: Actual album header; embedded public track-lockup/JSON-LD records 1529447365, 1529447370 and 1529447371 and their performer fields. Accessed 2026-11-02.Actual public HTML and structured track records inspected and retained; web reader shows only the header while full HTML contains track metadata. No listening was performed. Album release date is recorded as displayed; a later uploadDate on one track is not treated as the original album date. Pool same-release metadata and overlapping official cover credits conservatively.Return to Separate writing, composition and performance, paragraph 2 ↑
  4. Nonika Singh; feature reproduced by APNA. Eternal verse: Shiv Kumar Batalvi’s 50th death anniversary ↗reported primary participant accounts · Source date: publication date not established · Locator: Complete Shellee/Ik Kudi and Imtiaz Ali/Irshad Kamil/Ajj Din Chadheya paragraphs (web lines 31–34). Accessed 2026-11-02.Actual complete relevant feature read and retained. Only named participants’ reported creative decisions are used. The article’s broad popularity, biographical, award and poetic-origin claims are excluded. Exact original publication date was not established from the inspected APNA page; “50th” does not substitute for a date field. No song lyric is quoted.Return to Check evidence of adaptation, paragraph 1 ↑
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Record PH-JOU-0033 · English edition · human review not performed