Nazran by Nirvair Pannu

There is an honesty to Nazran that separates it from most Punjabi songs released around the same time. The arrangement here is the work of MXRCI, and it shows genuine craft in how it builds and releases.

There are singers who perform songs and singers who live inside them. On Nazran, Nirvair Pannu clearly belongs in the second group. Featuring a talented ensemble cast, the song carries the weight of the film's emotional arc and delivers it with conviction.

Released in 2024, it arrived at a time when Punjabi music needed exactly this kind of sincerity. The emotional register of Nazran is wide enough to fit celebration and solitude equally well.

The 3:38 runtime feels perfectly judged — long enough to develop its ideas, short enough to compel a second play. Songs like Nazran are the reason people fall in love with Punjabi music and never quite fall out of it.