Kahan Hai Khuda - Mad About Dance by Saahil Prem, Subhash Pradhan

The Mad About Dance album has several strong tracks, but Kahan Hai Khuda - Mad About Dance is the one most listeners come back to first. Saahil Prem 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 Kahan Hai Khuda - Mad About Dance, Saahil Prem, Subhash Pradhan clearly belongs in the second group. Saahil Prem, Amrit Maghera, Salah Benlemqawanssa, Mark Monero, Akhilesh Unnithan, Raashul Tondon, Abhishek Saha gave the film its soul, and Kahan Hai Khuda - Mad About Dance is the song that most directly channels that feeling into music.

Released in 2014, it arrived at a time when Hindi music needed exactly this kind of sincerity. Listeners have described the experience of Kahan Hai Khuda - Mad About Dance differently — romantic, melancholic, uplifting — which suggests the song is large enough to hold many truths.

Running to 4:52, 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.