Tera Zikr - Guzaarish by Shail Hada, Rakesh Pandit

The Guzaarish album has several strong tracks, but Tera Zikr - Guzaarish is the one most listeners come back to first. The production by Sanjay Leela Bhansali is understated in the best way — supportive without overshadowing the vocal.

There are singers who perform songs and singers who live inside them. On Tera Zikr - Guzaarish, Shail Hada, Rakesh Pandit clearly belongs in the second group. a talented ensemble cast gave the film its soul, and Tera Zikr - Guzaarish is the song that most directly channels that feeling into music.

Released in 2010, it arrived at a time when Hindi music needed exactly this kind of sincerity. There is a quality to Tera Zikr - Guzaarish that makes it feel like company — the kind of song you put on when words feel insufficient.

Running to 5:00, the song is exactly as long as it needs to be, which is the hardest length for a songwriter to find. The track stands as evidence that Shail Hada, Rakesh Pandit and Sanjay Leela Bhansali, working together, are capable of something well above the ordinary.