Lagdi Lahore Di by Tulsi Kumar, Sachin-Jigar, Vee, Guru Randhawa

Few songs from 2020 have held their ground as well as Lagdi Lahore Di, a track that keeps finding new audiences. Guru Randhawa built the instrumental foundation carefully here — every element earns its place in the mix.

Tulsi Kumar, Sachin-Jigar, Vee, Guru Randhawa's vocal here has a quality that is difficult to describe but impossible to miss — it simply feels true. For fans of Varun Dhawan, Prabhu Deva, Shraddha Kapoor, Nora Fatehi, Lagdi Lahore Di is one of those songs that immediately conjures specific scenes and emotions.

The song dates from 2020, but nothing about it sounds dated — the emotions it captures are not tied to a moment. There is no right time to listen to Lagdi Lahore Di. There is only the moment you press play and realise it was the right choice.

The 3:35 runtime feels perfectly judged — long enough to develop its ideas, short enough to compel a second play. It is, simply, one of the better songs to come from Punjabi in recent memory — and the numbers agree.