Alizeh - Ae Dil Hai Mushkil by Pritam, Arijit Singh, Ash King, Shashwat Singh

Alizeh - Ae Dil Hai Mushkil works because it does not try to do too much — it finds one feeling and holds it perfectly. The music, composed by Pritam, carries the song forward with a confidence that matches the performance.

Pritam, Arijit Singh, Ash King, Shashwat Singh delivers the lyrics with a nuance that turns an already strong song into something genuinely moving. Featuring Ranbir Kapoor, Anushka Sharma, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Fawad Khan, the song carries the weight of the film's emotional arc and delivers it with conviction.

In 2016, Hindi produced many songs, but Alizeh - Ae Dil Hai Mushkil was one of the handful that genuinely cut through. Alizeh - Ae Dil Hai Mushkil is the song for the end of a long day when you want music that understands something without being asked to explain it.

The 4:42 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.