Baisaa - Parched by Gazi Khan Barna

Some songs are made for a single moment. Baisaa - Parched is made for all of them. The music, composed by , carries the song forward with a confidence that matches the performance.

The vocal on Baisaa - Parched is among the better performances Gazi Khan Barna has committed to record. The song is tied to Tannishtha Chatterjee, Radhika Apte, Surveen Chawla, Adil Hussain, Lehar Khan, Sumeet Vyas, Riddhi Sen, Sayani Gupta, whose presence gives Baisaa - Parched a visual dimension that fans of the film will always associate with it.

2016 was a strong year for Hindi music, and Baisaa - Parched was among the reasons why. Listeners have described the experience of Baisaa - Parched differently — romantic, melancholic, uplifting — which suggests the song is large enough to hold many truths.

The 4:06 runtime feels perfectly judged — long enough to develop its ideas, short enough to compel a second play. The staying power of Baisaa - Parched is not a mystery. It is just what happens when every element of a song is exactly right.