Sajana Tere Bina - Hatyakand by Jaykar Dehrin, Poornima

Few songs from 1998 have held their ground as well as Sajana Tere Bina - Hatyakand, a track that keeps finding new audiences. Jaykar Dehrin has a history of strong work, and the music on Sajana Tere Bina - Hatyakand is among the most memorable of it.

The performance by Jaykar Dehrin, Poornima is the centrepiece here — controlled where it needs to be, open where it counts. Hearing Sajana Tere Bina - Hatyakand without thinking of Javed Khan, Liara is almost impossible for anyone who has seen Hatyakand.

By the end of 1998, Sajana Tere Bina - Hatyakand had moved well beyond its original audience and into everyday playlists. There is a quality to Sajana Tere Bina - Hatyakand that makes it feel like company — the kind of song you put on when words feel insufficient.

Running to 5:10, the song is exactly as long as it needs to be, which is the hardest length for a songwriter to find. It is, simply, one of the better songs to come from Hindi in recent memory — and the numbers agree.