After the success of his raw, aching “Aankhon Ke Darmiya” trilogy, the indie singer-songwriter leans deeper into his signature sound — and soul.
In a music landscape increasingly defined by algorithm-ready hooks and over-produced gloss, Rishbh Tiwari stands quietly apart — crafting songs that don’t just ask to be heard, but felt.
The indie singer-songwriter first broke through with Aankhon Ke Darmiya, a trilogy of acoustic ballads that spread across streaming platforms not with splashy promotion, but with word-of-mouth reverence. Intimate, lyrical, and drenched in unspoken emotion, the trilogy (Aankhon Ke Darmiya, 2, and 3) played like chapters from a lost diary — each track more bruised and beautiful than the last.
Now, Tiwari is ready to turn the page.
“Aankhein Kafirana”, his upcoming single, promises to be another slow-burning exploration of love and loss — a return to the poetic minimalism that’s become his signature, but with a darker, more mature undercurrent. “It’s about the kind of love that feels... reckless,” he hinted in a recent Instagram live. “Like your eyes know it’s not going to last, but your heart doesn’t care.”
There’s no official release date yet — typical of Tiwari’s low-key rollout style — but fans are already piecing together clues from recent social posts and cryptic lyric snippets. A scratchy voice note. A line scribbled in Urdu. A guitar riff looping like a heartbeat.
If Aankhon Ke Darmiya was the story of love remembered, Aankhein Kafirana might be love ruined or reimagined.
Tiwari’s soundscape remains stripped down: fingerpicked acoustic guitar, delicate piano flourishes, and his unmistakable voice — soft, breathy, carrying both weight and fragility. But it’s the writing that cuts deepest. Critics have often compared him to the likes of Prateek Kuhad or Damien Rice, but there’s something uniquely his own in the way he writes in Urdu and Hindi — not for effect, but for intimacy.
“He doesn’t write songs,” one fan commented online. “He writes confessions.”
It’s this emotional honesty that’s quietly built him a cult following. With no label backing and minimal PR, Rishbh Tiwari has carved out a space that defies trends — somewhere between bedroom pop and poetry, heartbreak and healing.
And if Aankhein Kafirana is any indication, he’s not done breaking hearts yet.