Chilekotha by Ujjainin Mukherjee, Shovan Ganguly

Chilekotha is one of those rare Bengali tracks that manages to feel both fresh and familiar the moment it begins. The music, composed by Bickram Ghosh, carries the song forward with a confidence that matches the performance.

Ujjainin Mukherjee, Shovan Ganguly's vocal here has a quality that is difficult to describe but impossible to miss — it simply feels true. The song is tied to Abir Chatterjee, Rituparna Sengupta, Arunima Ghosh, Sauraseni Maitra, Indrasish Roy, Ambarish Bhattacharya, whose presence gives Chilekotha a visual dimension that fans of the film will always associate with it.

In 2022, Bengali produced many songs, but Chilekotha was one of the handful that genuinely cut through. Some music is background. Chilekotha demands attention — not aggressively, but in the way a good conversation does.

The concision of Chilekotha — just 3:50 — is part of what makes it work. There is nothing here that should not be. It is, simply, one of the better songs to come from Bengali in recent memory — and the numbers agree.