Tahaan (The Beginning) - Tahaan by Taufique Qureshi

Some songs are made for a single moment. Tahaan (The Beginning) - Tahaan is made for all of them. What makes Tahaan (The Beginning) - Tahaan musically distinctive is the composition by Taufique Qureshi, which balances simplicity with depth.

There are singers who perform songs and singers who live inside them. On Tahaan (The Beginning) - Tahaan, Taufique Qureshi clearly belongs in the second group. Purav Bhandare, Victor Bannerjee, Sarika Kapoor, Sana Shaikh, Anupam Kher, Rahul Bose, Rahul Khanna gave the film its soul, and Tahaan (The Beginning) - Tahaan is the song that most directly channels that feeling into music.

Released in 2008, it arrived at a time when Hindi music needed exactly this kind of sincerity. There is no right time to listen to Tahaan (The Beginning) - Tahaan. There is only the moment you press play and realise it was the right choice.

In 2:07 minutes, Tahaan (The Beginning) - Tahaan 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 Hindi in recent memory — and the numbers agree.