Band Ankh Se Dekh Tamasha - Parvarish by Kishore Kumar, Amit Kumar Ganguly

Some songs are made for a single moment. Band Ankh Se Dekh Tamasha - Parvarish is made for all of them. Laxmikant, Pyarelal has a history of strong work, and the music on Band Ankh Se Dekh Tamasha - Parvarish is among the most memorable of it.

Every line Kishore Kumar, Amit Kumar Ganguly sings feels considered, as though the performance was thought through long before recording began. The chemistry of Amitabh Bachchan, Neetu Singh, Vinod Khanna, Shabana Azmi is embedded in every moment of Band Ankh Se Dekh Tamasha - Parvarish, making it as much a performance as a song.

1977 was a strong year for Hindi music, and Band Ankh Se Dekh Tamasha - Parvarish was among the reasons why. Listeners have described the experience of Band Ankh Se Dekh Tamasha - Parvarish differently — romantic, melancholic, uplifting — which suggests the song is large enough to hold many truths.

Running to 2:53, the song is exactly as long as it needs to be, which is the hardest length for a songwriter to find. It is, simply, one of the better songs to come from Hindi in recent memory — and the numbers agree.