Abeer Pandit and Rohansh Pandit have just scored their first film, and the credits carry some weight. They're the sons of Lalit Pandit, one half of Jatin-Lalit, and their debut album belongs to Alpha, the Alia Bhatt and Sharvari spy thriller from Yash Raj Films.

In a conversation with Filmfare, the brothers laid out a genuinely odd bit of trivia. Abeer had been working as an assistant director on War 2 when he heard whispers of another spy project on the studio's slate, then going by the working title Agni. Months on, when he and Rohansh landed the composing gig for what turned out to be Alpha, the penny dropped.

"That's when the whole Agni title track came into place with 'Tu Hi Toh Agni Hai Re,'" Abeer said. "In retrospect, if I wasn't an AD, maybe that part wouldn't be there. It's crazy how that was a full-circle moment for me."

The album pulled in a mixed set of collaborators. Vishal Dadlani is on there, and so is Sahib Samra, an artist based in Birmingham whom Abeer found through Spotify rather than any studio referral. Rohansh called working across that range, from established names to someone building a following online, one of the more satisfying parts of the process. The brothers also recorded a session with Alia Bhatt and Sharvari for the song Massacre, which Rohansh described as a chance to watch two actors he rates highly work through a track from the inside.

Growing up around Jatin-Lalit meant the Yash Raj lot wasn't unfamiliar territory either. Rohansh remembers visiting his father's sets as a kid, catching the tail end of the Fanaa sessions and later finding old cassettes with early ideas for Chaand Sifarish tucked away at home. Watching Lalit Pandit walk onto the Alpha set decades on, he said, closed a loop neither of them had planned for.

The family's ties to the Mangeshkar sisters came up too. Abeer recalled a single Diwali phone call with Lata Mangeshkar, arranged because his father rang her every year on the festival, and a meeting with Asha Bhosle at Shanmukhananda Hall once he and Rohansh had started making music of their own. Bhosle had promised to attend an Alpha screening at Lalit Pandit's invitation but, according to the brothers, that didn't end up happening.

As for guidance from their father, Abeer kept it simple. "The only advice Dad always gives us is to be honest and not be scared of taking risks," he said, adding that instinct, more than formula, is what he trusts on a track.

Alpha is already out and being watched for how its music holds up alongside the rest of YRF's spy universe. Whether Abeer and Rohansh get pulled into the next chapter of that universe, title or no title, is the open question now.