Ghoom Ghoom - Sankat City by Roopkumar Rathod, Ranjit Barot, Junne Banerji

Few songs from 2009 have held their ground as well as Ghoom Ghoom - Sankat City, a track that keeps finding new audiences. Ranjit Barot sets the tone from the very first bar — it is clear from the opening notes that this song means business.

Roopkumar Rathod, Ranjit Barot, Junne Banerji understood what this song required and delivered it without excess — the restraint itself becomes the emotion. The story told by Rimi Sen, Kay Kay Menon, Anupam Kher, Chunky Pandey, R.D. Burman, Dilip Prabhavalkar in Sankat City finds its musical expression here — Ghoom Ghoom - Sankat City is where the film's heart beats loudest.

When it came out in 2009, Ghoom Ghoom - Sankat City felt timely. Years later, it feels timeless. Listeners have described the experience of Ghoom Ghoom - Sankat City differently — romantic, melancholic, uplifting — which suggests the song is large enough to hold many truths.

At 3:46, the track does not overstay its welcome — it says what it needs to say and leaves the listener wanting more. It is, at the end of it, a very good song — and sometimes that is the only explanation that matters.