Tarara by Prahlad Fagna

There is an honesty to Tarara that separates it from most Haryanvi songs released around the same time. Behind the melody is the work of RK Crew, whose composition choices give Tarara its distinctive texture.

There are singers who perform songs and singers who live inside them. On Tarara, Prahlad Fagna clearly belongs in the second group. a talented ensemble cast gave the film its soul, and Tarara is the song that most directly channels that feeling into music.

The 2020 release gave fans something to hold onto — a track built for repeated listening rather than a single play. Listeners have described the experience of Tarara differently — romantic, melancholic, uplifting — which suggests the song is large enough to hold many truths.

The 2:35 runtime feels perfectly judged — long enough to develop its ideas, short enough to compel a second play. It is, simply, one of the better songs to come from Haryanvi in recent memory — and the numbers agree.