Touch Me - Dhoom 2: Back In Action by Alisha Chinai, KK, Pritam, Sameer

Few songs from 2006 have held their ground as well as Touch Me - Dhoom 2: Back In Action, a track that keeps finding new audiences. Pritam built the instrumental foundation carefully here — every element earns its place in the mix.

There are singers who perform songs and singers who live inside them. On Touch Me - Dhoom 2: Back In Action, Alisha Chinai, KK, Pritam, Sameer clearly belongs in the second group. Hrithik Roshan, Abhishek Bachchan, Aishwarya Rai, Bipasha Basu, Uday Chopra are at the heart of Dhoom 2: Back In Action, and Touch Me - Dhoom 2: Back In Action captures their dynamic at its most compelling.

Released in 2006, it arrived at a time when Hindi music needed exactly this kind of sincerity. There is a quality to Touch Me - Dhoom 2: Back In Action that makes it feel like company — the kind of song you put on when words feel insufficient.

The concision of Touch Me - Dhoom 2: Back In Action — just 5:19 — is part of what makes it work. There is nothing here that should not be. It is, at the end of it, a very good song — and sometimes that is the only explanation that matters.