Tokey Chhara by Raz Dee

There is an honesty to Tokey Chhara that separates it from most Bengali songs released around the same time. Raz Dee's arrangement gives the track a layered quality that rewards repeated listening.

Raz Dee's vocal here has a quality that is difficult to describe but impossible to miss — it simply feels true. The song is tied to Saswata Chakraborty, Sabyasachi Chakraborty, Anindy Chatterjee, Indrajit Majumder, Rini Ghosh, whose presence gives Tokey Chhara a visual dimension that fans of the film will always associate with it.

In 2019, Bengali produced many songs, but Tokey Chhara was one of the handful that genuinely cut through. Some music is background. Tokey Chhara demands attention — not aggressively, but in the way a good conversation does.

Running to 4:19, the song is exactly as long as it needs to be, which is the hardest length for a songwriter to find. It is, simply, one of the better songs to come from Bengali in recent memory — and the numbers agree.