A missed morning coffee and a burnt tongue will leave most of us with an awful mood. But for Sunny Kaushal, they led to his music debut. The actor, last seen in Phir Aayi Hasseen Dillruba (2024), has turned rapper with his first single, Mid air freeverse. He wrote it mid-air — on a flight from Delhi to Mumbai. “I was running late to the airport and missed my coffee. As soon as I got on the plane, I requested the flight attendant for a cup of coffee, and ended up burning my tongue. That’s how the first line of the song originated,” he grins.

Armed with a pen and paper, Kaushal scribbled away on the two-hour-plus flight. The result — an upbeat Punjabi rap number, filled with rhythm and rhyme. 

Vicky Kaushal