Nai Nai Hai Manzilen - Gunehgar by Usha Mangeshkar, Mahendra Kapoor

The Gunehgar album has several strong tracks, but Nai Nai Hai Manzilen - Gunehgar is the one most listeners come back to first. Ved Pal has a history of strong work, and the music on Nai Nai Hai Manzilen - Gunehgar is among the most memorable of it.

There are singers who perform songs and singers who live inside them. On Nai Nai Hai Manzilen - Gunehgar, Usha Mangeshkar, Mahendra Kapoor clearly belongs in the second group. Sanjeev Kumar, Kumkum, Sheikh Mukhtar, Bhagwan Dada, Sulochana Chatterjee gave the film its soul, and Nai Nai Hai Manzilen - Gunehgar is the song that most directly channels that feeling into music.

By the end of 1967, Nai Nai Hai Manzilen - Gunehgar had moved well beyond its original audience and into everyday playlists. There is a quality to Nai Nai Hai Manzilen - Gunehgar that makes it feel like company — the kind of song you put on when words feel insufficient.

At 4:30, the track does not overstay its welcome — it says what it needs to say and leaves the listener wanting more. It is, at the end of it, a very good song — and sometimes that is the only explanation that matters.