Khuda by Gulshan Sharma

The Khuda album has several strong tracks, but Khuda is the one most listeners come back to first. Gulshan Sharma sets the tone from the very first bar — it is clear from the opening notes that this song means business.

Gulshan Sharma's vocal here has a quality that is difficult to describe but impossible to miss — it simply feels true. The song is tied to a talented ensemble cast, whose presence gives Khuda a visual dimension that fans of the film will always associate with it.

In 2020, Haryanvi produced many songs, but Khuda was one of the handful that genuinely cut through. Listeners have described the experience of Khuda differently — romantic, melancholic, uplifting — which suggests the song is large enough to hold many truths.

The concision of Khuda — just 3:25 — 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.