Dil Bechara

Mukesh Chhabra launched the film in October 2017, making his directorial debut and announcing that it is the film adaptation of John Green's 2012 novel The Fault in Our Stars, with Sushant Singh Rajput as male lead.[7] In March 2018, A. R. Rahman was confirmed as music composer. Later, newcomer Sanjana Sanghi was roped in opposite Rajput and Sony Music India acquired music rights with Amitabh Bhattacharya as lyricist.[8]

Principal photography kicked off on 9 July 2018 in Jamshedpur, Jharkhand, when the film was named Kizie Aur Manny.[9] On 29 August 2018, Farah Khan shot a song with Rajput. The few left portions of last schedule were filmed across Paris, France.[10]

In February 2019, the title was officially changed to Dil Bechara that one was felt to be perfectly embodying the theme and had been drawn from lyrics penned by Bhattacharya and composed by Rahman which was one of the film tracks.[11]

Chhabra was suspended from his services after getting allegedly accused of sexual harassment in October 2018.[12] Eventually he returned after receiving clean chit from ICC on the allegations. This resulted in the delay of final schedule and completion of post-production.[13]

The film score and soundtrack are composed by A. R. Rahman with lyrics penned by Amitabh Bhattacharya. The music rights of this film has been bought by Sony Music India. Title track of the film has been sung by Rahman as seen a video shared by the composer on his official Twitter handle, the title of the movie was officially changed from Kizzie Aur Manny to Dil Bechara in early 2019 because the lyrics of this song embodied the theme of the movie perfectly.[14] Chhabra had worked with Rahman on several films previously and wanted a fresh music album in his debut film for that he approached Rahman, whose film 99 Songs he was working as a casting director in. In an interview to Bollywood Hungama; when asked how Rahman was convinced take up the film, Chhabra revealed that Rahman agreed to compose film in just 5 minutes saying "I love the way you do narrate to me and I like your honesty, let's do it."[15] Rahman agreed to compose music in early 2018. Bhattacharya is making his third collaboration with Rahman after Lekar Hum Deewana Dil and 2.0.[16] Rahman shared a video of him checking the mix of the title track "Dil Bechara" on Twitter in 2019.[17]

The film score is composed by A. R. Rahman. Rahman's apprentice group Qutub-E-Kripa, provided additional score for the film. Recording of the original score happened in three of Rahman's studios, Panchathan Record Inn and AM Studios in Chennai and AR Studios in Mumbai.

All lyrics are written by Amitabh Bhattacharya.