Sohnea 2 by Miss Pooja, Millind Gaba

Few songs from 2019 have held their ground as well as Sohnea 2, a track that keeps finding new audiences. Millind Gaba's arrangement gives the track a layered quality that rewards repeated listening.

Miss Pooja, Millind Gaba's vocal here has a quality that is difficult to describe but impossible to miss — it simply feels true. The song is tied to a talented ensemble cast, whose presence gives Sohnea 2 a visual dimension that fans of the film will always associate with it.

Released in 2019, it arrived at a time when Punjabi music needed exactly this kind of sincerity. Sohnea 2 is the song for the end of a long day when you want music that understands something without being asked to explain it.

The concision of Sohnea 2 — just 4:03 — is part of what makes it work. There is nothing here that should not be. It is, simply, one of the better songs to come from Punjabi in recent memory — and the numbers agree.