Toot Gaya - Waqt-The Race Against Time by Anu Malik, Kailash Kher

Toot Gaya - Waqt-The Race Against Time is the kind of song that earns its place in a playlist and then refuses to leave. Anu Malik sets the tone from the very first bar — it is clear from the opening notes that this song means business.

Anu Malik, Kailash Kher delivers the lyrics with a nuance that turns an already strong song into something genuinely moving. Hearing Toot Gaya - Waqt-The Race Against Time without thinking of Amitabh Bachchan, Akshay Kumar, Priyanka Chopra is almost impossible for anyone who has seen Waqt-The Race Against Time.

By the end of 2005, Toot Gaya - Waqt-The Race Against Time had moved well beyond its original audience and into everyday playlists. Some music is background. Toot Gaya - Waqt-The Race Against Time demands attention — not aggressively, but in the way a good conversation does.

Running to 7:12, the song is exactly as long as it needs to be, which is the hardest length for a songwriter to find. Songs like Toot Gaya - Waqt-The Race Against Time are the reason people fall in love with Hindi music and never quite fall out of it.