King Song 'Tu Mil Jaaye' Out: SRK-Deepika Romance, Arijit Singh Vocals, Ed Sheeran Rap

The song is here: 'Tu Mil Jaaye' drops at midnight

Minutes after the clock struck 12 on November 2, the makers of King put out the film's first song. 'Tu Mil Jaaye' runs 3 minutes and 42 seconds, and it's a romantic dance track built around SRK and Deepika Padukone — shot across exotic foreign locations, mixing getaways, cafes and beach moments with the action the film is promising.

SRK shared the song himself with a note that reads, in translation: "The era of love is granted only to the fortunate... where a rose blooms in the scent of gunpowder. Of love and other battles... This December, #LoveLikeAKing." The song is out on the T-Series and Zee Music Company YouTube channels, and the audio is streaming on major platforms.

Who sings what: the full credits, cleared up

This is where it gets interesting — because the credits are not what many fans expected. Here's the official breakdown, straight from the T-Series release:

• Composed by: Sachin-Jigar
• Hindi lyrics: Kumaar
• Vocals: Arijit Singh and Madhubanti Bagchi
• English rap: written and performed by Ed Sheeran (credited courtesy of Interscope Records and Gingerbread Man Records)
• Choreography: Piyush-Shazia

The big clarification: Ed Sheeran did not compose the song. Before the release, there was talk that Sheeran might have composed and sung the track — but the released credits settle it. Sachin-Jigar composed it, Arijit sings the Hindi portions, and Ed's contribution is the English rap, which he wrote himself. It's still a genuine global crossover — a Hindi film song carrying a rap penned by one of the world's biggest pop stars — but the music itself is pure Sachin-Jigar.

SRK and Deepika, five films in

The music video leans hard on the pairing. It opens with SRK delivering a dialogue that translates roughly to: "I am no killer, I am a lover. My target is my beloved — and what lover wouldn't break a heart?" — a direct echo of the 'aashiq, not qaatil' line from the King posters. The video then moves into the romance: SRK and Deepika on getaways, in cafes, on the coast — with action beats and slick transitions cut through it. It closes on another fiery line from SRK, meaning: "This time my heart is on fire — it won't rest until the world burns."

And yes — there's a shirtless, fully ripped SRK in there too, which the internet has already noticed.

This is the pair's fifth film together: Om Shanti Om (2007), Chennai Express (2013), Happy New Year (2014), Pathaan (2023), and now King. Every one of those pairings has been a box-office event, and the makers clearly know it — the song sells the romance as much as the action.

What the trade scoops got wrong

Here's the honest part. For days, trade reports — including an exclusive from Box Office Worldwide — said King would kick off promotions with a song called 'Daddy Cool', sung by Arijit Singh and Shilpa Rao, as the first teaser-song unit on November 2. We covered that expectation ourselves in our birthday marketing piece.

What actually dropped was 'Tu Mil Jaaye' — sung by Arijit Singh and Madhubanti Bagchi, with Ed Sheeran's rap. Different title, different female vocalist, and a global collaboration nobody's scoop had fully nailed.

To be fair to the trade: 'Daddy Cool' may still exist as a later release in the campaign — the scoops were about the promotional plan, and plans change. But as of this morning, the first song of King is 'Tu Mil Jaaye', full stop. That's the correction, on the record.

Birthday night: Mannat lights up, fans take over

SRK has made November 2 a launch date before — last year, on his 60th birthday, the makers unveiled his first look from King. This year it was the first song. His Mumbai home Mannat was lit up with King visuals for the occasion, and fan clubs had been camped on the story all week — from the King-themed Sea Link display to Siddharth Anand's cryptic midnight posts that fans decoded as "It's time for the world to celebrate."

The birthday-as-launchpad strategy is now clearly deliberate: use the one day the entire country is already talking about SRK, and give them something to talk about. It worked — #LoveLikeAKing trended through the night.

Where King stands right now

King releases December 24, 2026 — Christmas Eve. It's directed by Siddharth Anand (his second film with SRK after Pathaan) and produced by Gauri Khan, Mamta Anand and Siddharth Anand under Red Chillies Entertainment and Marflix Pictures. The cast, as reported, includes Suhana Khan in her theatrical debut alongside Deepika Padukone, Abhishek Bachchan, Rani Mukerji, Anil Kapoor, Jackie Shroff, Jaideep Ahlawat, Arshad Warsi, Raghav Juyal and Abhay Verma.

The business around it is moving fast too: Phars Films has taken the overseas rights in a record Rs 175 crore deal, and T-Series has locked the film's global music rights for 50 years — which explains why the song push is so aggressive. Filming is reportedly in its final stretch, expected to wrap around mid-November.

What comes next

If the trade roadmap holds, this is just the opening. More songs are expected through November (five are reportedly finished, including one shot in South Africa), a King promo is expected to play with Ramayana in theatres, and the full theatrical trailer should land in early December.

And then the clash: Avengers: Doomsday hits on December 18 — six days before King — with Dune: Part Three in the same corridor. December 2026 is shaping up as one of the most crowded box-office months in years. (Marvel, for its part, just lit up Seoul with 2,000 drones for Doomsday — the marketing war is already on.)

Where to watch and listen

The 'Tu Mil Jaaye' music video is on the T-Series and Zee Music Company YouTube channels, and the audio is on all major streaming platforms. T-Series has also been pushing it on Instagram through the morning.

We'll keep tracking every King asset as the December 24 release gets closer — the trailer, the remaining songs, and the box-office build-up.