Main Aisa Kyon Hoon - Lakshya by Shaan

The Lakshya album has several strong tracks, but Main Aisa Kyon Hoon - Lakshya is the one most listeners come back to first. Behind the melody is the work of Shankar Mahadevan, Ehsaan Noorani, Loy Mendonsa, whose composition choices give Main Aisa Kyon Hoon - Lakshya its distinctive texture.

Shaan understood what this song required and delivered it without excess — the restraint itself becomes the emotion. Hearing Main Aisa Kyon Hoon - Lakshya without thinking of a talented ensemble cast is almost impossible for anyone who has seen Lakshya.

By the end of 2004, Main Aisa Kyon Hoon - Lakshya had moved well beyond its original audience and into everyday playlists. Listeners have described the experience of Main Aisa Kyon Hoon - Lakshya differently — romantic, melancholic, uplifting — which suggests the song is large enough to hold many truths.

The 4:34 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 Hindi in recent memory — and the numbers agree.