Ab Toh Forever - Ta Ra Rum Pum by Vishal And Shekhar, Shreya Ghoshal, KK, Vishal Dadlani, Javed Akhtar

There is an honesty to Ab Toh Forever - Ta Ra Rum Pum that separates it from most Hindi songs released around the same time. Vishal And Shekhar built the instrumental foundation carefully here — every element earns its place in the mix.

There are singers who perform songs and singers who live inside them. On Ab Toh Forever - Ta Ra Rum Pum, Vishal And Shekhar, Shreya Ghoshal, KK, Vishal Dadlani, Javed Akhtar clearly belongs in the second group. The story told by Saif Ali Khan, Rani Mukerji in Ta Ra Rum Pum finds its musical expression here — Ab Toh Forever - Ta Ra Rum Pum is where the film's heart beats loudest.

By the end of 2007, Ab Toh Forever - Ta Ra Rum Pum had moved well beyond its original audience and into everyday playlists. There is a quality to Ab Toh Forever - Ta Ra Rum Pum that makes it feel like company — the kind of song you put on when words feel insufficient.

The 5:01 runtime feels perfectly judged — long enough to develop its ideas, short enough to compel a second play. It is, simply, one of the better songs to come from Hindi in recent memory — and the numbers agree.