MINAXI’s “Mahiya”: a nocturnal qawwali of love and loneliness set against the backdrop of gully cricket and digital disconnection

Minaxi’s new single “Mahiya,” from their forthcoming album Z of A, arrives not just as a song but as a short film—a piece that leans into the quiet hours of the night where love and loneliness blur. The title, translated from Hindi as “dear one” or “lover,” opens a window into an intimate world, where memories are both soft and sharp, and where emotional echoes drift like fog through half-sleep. “Mahiya is a nocturnal track about love, loneliness and nostalgia,” the band shares. “It speaks about how one has befriended this loneliness that creeps up in the middle of the