Tareefan by Jordan Sandhu, Mehar Vaani, Arjan Virk, Goldy Desi Crew

The Tareefan album has several strong tracks, but Tareefan is the one most listeners come back to first. The arrangement here is the work of Goldy Desi Crew, and it shows genuine craft in how it builds and releases.

There are singers who perform songs and singers who live inside them. On Tareefan, Jordan Sandhu, Mehar Vaani, Arjan Virk, Goldy Desi Crew clearly belongs in the second group. Featuring a talented ensemble cast, the song carries the weight of the film's emotional arc and delivers it with conviction.

Released in 2023, it arrived at a time when Punjabi music needed exactly this kind of sincerity. The song rewards full attention but also works as company in the background — a flexibility that most tracks never achieve.

The concision of Tareefan — just 3:12 — is part of what makes it work. There is nothing here that should not be. The track stands as evidence that Jordan Sandhu, Mehar Vaani, Arjan Virk, Goldy Desi Crew and Goldy Desi Crew, working together, are capable of something well above the ordinary.