Kudi Kurkuri - Crackers by Dilip Sen, Raja Hasan, Jojo Mukherjee

Few songs from 2011 have held their ground as well as Kudi Kurkuri - Crackers, a track that keeps finding new audiences. Dilip Sen 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 Kudi Kurkuri - Crackers, Dilip Sen, Raja Hasan, Jojo Mukherjee clearly belongs in the second group. Featuring Jatin Khurana, Raju, Noopur Patwardhan, Akansha Shivhare, the song carries the weight of the film's emotional arc and delivers it with conviction.

The song dates from 2011, but nothing about it sounds dated — the emotions it captures are not tied to a moment. The song rewards full attention but also works as company in the background — a flexibility that most tracks never achieve.

The concision of Kudi Kurkuri - Crackers — just 3:57 — 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.