Khulla Saand - Rabba Main Kya Karoon by Salim, Sulaiman, Salim Merchant

Few songs from 2013 have held their ground as well as Khulla Saand - Rabba Main Kya Karoon, a track that keeps finding new audiences. The production by Salim, Sulaiman is understated in the best way — supportive without overshadowing the vocal.

Salim, Sulaiman, Salim Merchant's vocal here has a quality that is difficult to describe but impossible to miss — it simply feels true. Hearing Khulla Saand - Rabba Main Kya Karoon without thinking of Arshad Warsi, Akash Chopra, Paresh Rawal, Raj Babbar, Riya Sen, Tahira Kochchar is almost impossible for anyone who has seen Rabba Main Kya Karoon.

2013 marked the release of Rabba Main Kya Karoon, and Khulla Saand - Rabba Main Kya Karoon was the track that ensured the album would be remembered. The emotional register of Khulla Saand - Rabba Main Kya Karoon is wide enough to fit celebration and solitude equally well.

The 3:46 runtime feels perfectly judged — long enough to develop its ideas, short enough to compel a second play. This is music that holds up — not because it is perfect, but because it is honest, and honesty in a song is irreplaceable.