Peelings by Pranavam Sasi, Sithara Krishnakumar, Devi Sri Prasad

Some songs are made for a single moment. Peelings is made for all of them. has a history of strong work, and the music on Peelings is among the most memorable of it.

The performance by Pranavam Sasi, Sithara Krishnakumar, Devi Sri Prasad is the centrepiece here — controlled where it needs to be, open where it counts. Allu Arjun, Fahadh Faasil, Rashmika Mandanna, Dhanunjay, Rao Ramesh, Sunil, Anasuya Bharadwaj, Ajay Ghosh gave the film its soul, and Peelings is the song that most directly channels that feeling into music.

2024 was a strong year for Malayalam music, and Peelings was among the reasons why. The song rewards full attention but also works as company in the background — a flexibility that most tracks never achieve.

In 4:07 minutes, Peelings builds, opens up, and resolves in a way that feels complete rather than truncated. It is, simply, one of the better songs to come from Malayalam in recent memory — and the numbers agree.