Hor Nach - Mastizaade by Meet Bros Anjjan, Ritu Pathak

Some songs are made for a single moment. Hor Nach - Mastizaade is made for all of them. Meet Bros Anjjan sets the tone from the very first bar — it is clear from the opening notes that this song means business.

There are singers who perform songs and singers who live inside them. On Hor Nach - Mastizaade, Meet Bros Anjjan, Ritu Pathak clearly belongs in the second group. Tusshar Kapoor, Sunny Leone, Vir Das, Shaad Randhawa, Suresh Menon, Asrani, Sushmita Mukherjee, Vivek Vaswani, Riteish Deshmukh, Gizele Thakral, Vandita Shrivastava, Kurush Deboo, Souvik Ghosh, Darshan Jariwala gave the film its soul, and Hor Nach - Mastizaade is the song that most directly channels that feeling into music.

The 2016 release gave fans something to hold onto — a track built for repeated listening rather than a single play. Listeners have described the experience of Hor Nach - Mastizaade differently — romantic, melancholic, uplifting — which suggests the song is large enough to hold many truths.

Running to 3:43, the song is exactly as long as it needs to be, which is the hardest length for a songwriter to find. It is, simply, one of the better songs to come from Hindi in recent memory — and the numbers agree.