Choomantar - Mere Brother Ki Dulhan by Benny Dayal, Aditi Singh Sharma, Sohail Sen, Irshad Kamil

Few songs from 2011 have held their ground as well as Choomantar - Mere Brother Ki Dulhan, a track that keeps finding new audiences. Credit goes to Sohail Sen for a score that understands exactly what the song needs and nothing more.

Benny Dayal, Aditi Singh Sharma, Sohail Sen, Irshad Kamil's vocal here has a quality that is difficult to describe but impossible to miss — it simply feels true. The story told by John Abraham, Katrina Kaif, Imran Khan, Ali Zafar, Tara D'souza in Mere Brother Ki Dulhan finds its musical expression here — Choomantar - Mere Brother Ki Dulhan is where the film's heart beats loudest.

2011 marked the release of Mere Brother Ki Dulhan, and Choomantar - Mere Brother Ki Dulhan was the track that ensured the album would be remembered. Some music is background. Choomantar - Mere Brother Ki Dulhan demands attention — not aggressively, but in the way a good conversation does.

The 4:20 runtime feels perfectly judged — long enough to develop its ideas, short enough to compel a second play. It is, at the end of it, a very good song — and sometimes that is the only explanation that matters.