Shiv Tandav by Bickram Ghosh

Bickram Ghosh has delivered memorable performances before, but Shiv Tandav sits comfortably among the very best. Bickram Ghosh's arrangement gives the track a layered quality that rewards repeated listening.

The performance by Bickram Ghosh is the centrepiece here — controlled where it needs to be, open where it counts. On screen, a talented ensemble cast bring the emotional world of the song to life in a way that enhances rather than competes with the music.

2022 marked the release of Karnasubarner Guptodhon, and Shiv Tandav was the track that ensured the album would be remembered. The emotional register of Shiv Tandav is wide enough to fit celebration and solitude equally well.

The 1:50 runtime feels perfectly judged — long enough to develop its ideas, short enough to compel a second play. It is, at the end of it, a very good song — and sometimes that is the only explanation that matters.