Bum Bhole - Tere Mere Phere by Shibani Kashyap, Sukhwinder Singh

Shibani Kashyap, Sukhwinder Singh has delivered memorable performances before, but Bum Bhole - Tere Mere Phere sits comfortably among the very best. Shibani Kashyap sets the tone from the very first bar — it is clear from the opening notes that this song means business.

The performance by Shibani Kashyap, Sukhwinder Singh is the centrepiece here — controlled where it needs to be, open where it counts. Hearing Bum Bhole - Tere Mere Phere without thinking of Vinay Pathak, Riya Sen, Jagrat Desai, Sasha Goradia is almost impossible for anyone who has seen Tere Mere Phere.

Released in 2011, it arrived at a time when Hindi music needed exactly this kind of sincerity. Listeners have described the experience of Bum Bhole - Tere Mere Phere differently — romantic, melancholic, uplifting — which suggests the song is large enough to hold many truths.

The 3:23 runtime feels perfectly judged — long enough to develop its ideas, short enough to compel a second play. Years from now, Bum Bhole - Tere Mere Phere will still be the track that plays at the right moment and lands exactly as it did the first time.