Aaj Raate Sob Bhule by Ujjaini Mukherjee, Sourav Sarkar, Dev Sen

Aaj Raate Sob Bhule is the kind of song that earns its place in a playlist and then refuses to leave. The music, composed by Dev Sen, carries the song forward with a confidence that matches the performance.

The voice of Ujjaini Mukherjee, Sourav Sarkar, Dev Sen carries Aaj Raate Sob Bhule effortlessly, which is the highest compliment a song can give its singer. On screen, Chiranjeet Chakraborty, Koneenica Banerjee, Indraneil Sengupta, Rajatava Dutta Roni, Rudranil Ghosh, Rajesh Sharma, Sudipta Chakraborty, Sohana Saba bring the emotional world of the song to life in a way that enhances rather than competes with the music.

By the end of 2016, Aaj Raate Sob Bhule had moved well beyond its original audience and into everyday playlists. Aaj Raate Sob Bhule is the song for the end of a long day when you want music that understands something without being asked to explain it.

The 3:17 runtime feels perfectly judged — long enough to develop its ideas, short enough to compel a second play. It is, at the end of it, a very good song — and sometimes that is the only explanation that matters.