Aluva Puzha by Vineeth Sreenivasan

The Aluva Puzha album has several strong tracks, but Aluva Puzha is the one most listeners come back to first. Rajesh Murugesan's arrangement gives the track a layered quality that rewards repeated listening.

The performance by Vineeth Sreenivasan is the centrepiece here — controlled where it needs to be, open where it counts. The song is tied to Nivin Pauly, Sai Pallavi, Anupama Parameswaran, whose presence gives Aluva Puzha a visual dimension that fans of the film will always associate with it.

The 2015 release gave fans something to hold onto — a track built for repeated listening rather than a single play. Aluva Puzha is the song for the end of a long day when you want music that understands something without being asked to explain it.

The concision of Aluva Puzha — just 3:03 — is part of what makes it work. There is nothing here that should not be. It is, at the end of it, a very good song — and sometimes that is the only explanation that matters.