Jhumritalaiyya - Jagga Jasoos by Pritam, Arijit Singh, Mohan Kanan

Jhumritalaiyya - Jagga Jasoos is the kind of song that earns its place in a playlist and then refuses to leave. What makes Jhumritalaiyya - Jagga Jasoos musically distinctive is the composition by Pritam, which balances simplicity with depth.

Pritam, Arijit Singh, Mohan Kanan's vocal here has a quality that is difficult to describe but impossible to miss — it simply feels true. Ranbir Kapoor, Katrina Kaif, Sayani Gupta, Adah Sharma, Saurabh Shukla gave the film its soul, and Jhumritalaiyya - Jagga Jasoos is the song that most directly channels that feeling into music.

In 2017, Hindi produced many songs, but Jhumritalaiyya - Jagga Jasoos was one of the handful that genuinely cut through. Jhumritalaiyya - Jagga Jasoos is the song for the end of a long day when you want music that understands something without being asked to explain it.

The concision of Jhumritalaiyya - Jagga Jasoos — just 3:59 — is part of what makes it work. There is nothing here that should not be. It is, at the end of it, a very good song — and sometimes that is the only explanation that matters.