Memon House - Black Friday by Indian Ocean

Few songs from 2007 have held their ground as well as Memon House - Black Friday, a track that keeps finding new audiences. Behind the melody is the work of Leslie Fernandes, Indian Ocean, whose composition choices give Memon House - Black Friday its distinctive texture.

Indian Ocean's vocal here has a quality that is difficult to describe but impossible to miss — it simply feels true. Dibyendu Bhattacharya, Kay Kay Menon, Pavan Malhotra, Aditya Srivastava, Kk. Menon gave the film its soul, and Memon House - Black Friday is the song that most directly channels that feeling into music.

2007 marked the release of Black Friday, and Memon House - Black Friday was the track that ensured the album would be remembered. There is no right time to listen to Memon House - Black Friday. There is only the moment you press play and realise it was the right choice.

The concision of Memon House - Black Friday — just 6:17 — 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.