Khairiyat - Chhichhore by Pritam, Arijit Singh

The Chhichhore album has several strong tracks, but Khairiyat - Chhichhore is the one most listeners come back to first. Pritam's arrangement gives the track a layered quality that rewards repeated listening.

Pritam, Arijit Singh's vocal here has a quality that is difficult to describe but impossible to miss — it simply feels true. The chemistry of Sushant Singh Rajput, Shraddha Kapoor, Prateik Babbar, Varun Sharma, Tushar Pandey, Tahir Raj Bhasin, Naveen Polishetty is embedded in every moment of Khairiyat - Chhichhore, making it as much a performance as a song.

2019 marked the release of Chhichhore, and Khairiyat - Chhichhore was the track that ensured the album would be remembered. It is the kind of track that works at full volume with friends and equally well in a quiet room alone — the mood adjusts without the song changing.

The 4:40 runtime feels perfectly judged — long enough to develop its ideas, short enough to compel a second play. Songs like Khairiyat - Chhichhore are the reason people fall in love with Hindi music and never quite fall out of it.