Shameless color) is an Indian Hindi-language song, composed by the duo of Vishal-Shekhar (Vishal Dadlani and Shekhar Ravjiani), with lyrics written by Kumaar and sung by Shilpa Rao, Caralisa Monteiro, with backing vocals by Vishal Dadlani and Shekhar Ravjiani for the soundtrack album of the 2023 Indian film Pathaan.
[4] The song was attributed to the 'old school' way of compositions; it was initiated with dummy lyrics while Shilpa Rao recorded the patch.
[3] On coining the title "Besharam Rang", the duo gave credit to Kumaar who took the brief of the song and translated it.
"[12] Namrata Joshi of Cinema Express wrote "First impression: loved the smooth-as-silk voice of Shilpa Rao.
Second: learnt some quick Spanish from the refrain—that translates as "today life is complete"—quite like how I picked up French from Nashe si chadh gayi in YRF's own Befikre.
Third: in the process of hunting for the aforesaid miscreant saffron bikini and sarong (which features only between the last few seconds, 2.50 to 3.10 in the video) I got to see several other shades of swimwear on many sun-kissed, buff and largely foreign bodies and wondered if other colours are also feeling affronted for being called shameless.
Fourth: the song grew on me enough to start playing on a loop and humming it even though I disliked the choreography by Vaibhavi Merchant.
[16][17][18] As per Box Office India – Worldwide report of December 2022, within weeks of release, the song trended number one on YouTube.
[21][22] Lyricist Manoj Muntashir, in an interview with Dainik Bhaskar, about Besharam Rang and the saffron color, said, "[...] the music team or Shah Rukh sir could have spotted the error, they would have certainly taken some action.
[32] The News Minute termed the entire controversy as "shameless misreading for jingoism" and stated that there were five different costumes worn by Padukone in the song and the boycotters are criticizing this particular scene which features merely for 20 seconds as it suits their agenda.