Rumaal Ambili by Mamta Mohandas, Zia Ul Haq

Some songs are made for a single moment. Rumaal Ambili is made for all of them. Rahul Raj built the instrumental foundation carefully here — every element earns its place in the mix.

Mamta Mohandas, Zia Ul Haq's vocal here has a quality that is difficult to describe but impossible to miss — it simply feels true. The chemistry of Rahul Madhav, Sijoy Varghese, Rahul Dev Shetty, Mamtha Mohandas, Neha Saxena, Nandini Rai is embedded in every moment of Rumaal Ambili, making it as much a performance as a song.

2020 marked the release of Rumaal Ambili, and Rumaal Ambili was the track that ensured the album would be remembered. There is no right time to listen to Rumaal Ambili. There is only the moment you press play and realise it was the right choice.

In 3:04 minutes, Rumaal Ambili 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.