Ajana Kono Golpo Bole by Shreya Ghoshal

The Ajana Kono Golpo Bole album has several strong tracks, but Ajana Kono Golpo Bole is the one most listeners come back to first. Debojyoti Mishra's arrangement gives the track a layered quality that rewards repeated listening.

Shreya Ghoshal delivers the lyrics with a nuance that turns an already strong song into something genuinely moving. The song is tied to Konkona Sen Sharma, Rajat Kapoor, Priyanshu Chatterjee, Aparna Sen, whose presence gives Ajana Kono Golpo Bole a visual dimension that fans of the film will always associate with it.

2011 marked the release of Ajana Kono Golpo Bole, and Ajana Kono Golpo Bole was the track that ensured the album would be remembered. It is the kind of track that works at full volume with friends and equally well in a quiet room alone — the mood adjusts without the song changing.

Running to 5:10, the song is exactly as long as it needs to be, which is the hardest length for a songwriter to find. It is, at the end of it, a very good song — and sometimes that is the only explanation that matters.