Sunder Susheel - Dum Laga Ke Haisha by Anu Malik, Malini Awasthi, Rahul Ram, Varun Grover

Few songs from 2015 have held their ground as well as Sunder Susheel - Dum Laga Ke Haisha, a track that keeps finding new audiences. Behind the melody is the work of Anu Malik, whose composition choices give Sunder Susheel - Dum Laga Ke Haisha its distinctive texture.

The performance by Anu Malik, Malini Awasthi, Rahul Ram, Varun Grover is the centrepiece here — controlled where it needs to be, open where it counts. Ayushmann Khurrana, Bhumi Pednekar gave the film its soul, and Sunder Susheel - Dum Laga Ke Haisha is the song that most directly channels that feeling into music.

2015 was a strong year for Hindi music, and Sunder Susheel - Dum Laga Ke Haisha was among the reasons why. The emotional register of Sunder Susheel - Dum Laga Ke Haisha is wide enough to fit celebration and solitude equally well.

In 4:48 minutes, Sunder Susheel - Dum Laga Ke Haisha builds, opens up, and resolves in a way that feels complete rather than truncated. Sunder Susheel - Dum Laga Ke Haisha endures because it was built on feeling rather than formula — and that is the one thing streaming numbers cannot manufacture.