Jhoom Barabar Jhoom - Policegiri by Vineet Singh, Shabab Sabri, Aaman Trikha, Pawni Pandey

Released as part of Policegiri, Jhoom Barabar Jhoom - Policegiri announced itself as a standout the moment it reached listeners. Credit goes to Himesh Reshammiya for a score that understands exactly what the song needs and nothing more.

Vineet Singh, Shabab Sabri, Aaman Trikha, Pawni Pandey's vocal here has a quality that is difficult to describe but impossible to miss — it simply feels true. On screen, Sanjay Dutt, Prachi Desai, Prakash Raj, Om Puri, Rajpal Yadav, Kishori Shahane bring the emotional world of the song to life in a way that enhances rather than competes with the music.

Released in 2013, it arrived at a time when Hindi music needed exactly this kind of sincerity. Some music is background. Jhoom Barabar Jhoom - Policegiri demands attention — not aggressively, but in the way a good conversation does.

The concision of Jhoom Barabar Jhoom - Policegiri — just 4:43 — 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.