Boom Boom, Pt. 2 - Mujrim by Mohammed Aziz, Anu Malik

Few songs from 1989 have held their ground as well as Boom Boom, Pt. 2 - Mujrim, a track that keeps finding new audiences. The arrangement here is the work of Mohammed Aziz, Anu Malik, and it shows genuine craft in how it builds and releases.

Mohammed Aziz, Anu Malik's vocal here has a quality that is difficult to describe but impossible to miss — it simply feels true. The story told by a talented ensemble cast in Mujrim finds its musical expression here — Boom Boom, Pt. 2 - Mujrim is where the film's heart beats loudest.

Released in 1989, it arrived at a time when Hindi music needed exactly this kind of sincerity. There is no right time to listen to Boom Boom, Pt. 2 - Mujrim. There is only the moment you press play and realise it was the right choice.

Running to 7:25, the song is exactly as long as it needs to be, which is the hardest length for a songwriter to find. Years from now, Boom Boom, Pt. 2 - Mujrim will still be the track that plays at the right moment and lands exactly as it did the first time.