Noolupoya by Pradeep Kumar, Mohammed Maqbool Mansoor, Jackson Vijayan, Varun Sunil

When Pradeep Kumar, Mohammed Maqbool Mansoor, Jackson Vijayan, Varun Sunil recorded Noolupoya, something special happened in the studio — and listeners have felt it ever since. What makes Noolupoya musically distinctive is the composition by Jackson Vijayan, which balances simplicity with depth.

Pradeep Kumar, Mohammed Maqbool Mansoor, Jackson Vijayan, Varun Sunil delivers the lyrics with a nuance that turns an already strong song into something genuinely moving. Fahadh Faasil, Gautham Menon, Soubin Shahir, Nazriya Nazim are at the heart of Noolupoya, and Noolupoya captures their dynamic at its most compelling.

In 2020, Malayalam produced many songs, but Noolupoya was one of the handful that genuinely cut through. Listeners have described the experience of Noolupoya differently — romantic, melancholic, uplifting — which suggests the song is large enough to hold many truths.

The concision of Noolupoya — just 4:46 — 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.