Do Dilon Ki Dastan - Do Dilon Ki Dastan by Asha Bhosle, Shabbir Kumar

Do Dilon Ki Dastan - Do Dilon Ki Dastan works because it does not try to do too much — it finds one feeling and holds it perfectly. Credit goes to Laxmikant, Pyarelal for a score that understands exactly what the song needs and nothing more.

There are singers who perform songs and singers who live inside them. On Do Dilon Ki Dastan - Do Dilon Ki Dastan, Asha Bhosle, Shabbir Kumar clearly belongs in the second group. Sanjay Dutt, Padmini Kolhapure gave the film its soul, and Do Dilon Ki Dastan - Do Dilon Ki Dastan is the song that most directly channels that feeling into music.

1985 marked the release of Do Dilon Ki Dastan, and Do Dilon Ki Dastan - Do Dilon Ki Dastan was the track that ensured the album would be remembered. There is no right time to listen to Do Dilon Ki Dastan - Do Dilon Ki Dastan. There is only the moment you press play and realise it was the right choice.

The concision of Do Dilon Ki Dastan - Do Dilon Ki Dastan — just 9:32 — 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 Hindi in recent memory — and the numbers agree.