Toy Train by Anupam Roy

Not every song from Toy Train lingers, but Toy Train is the one that stays. Ashu Chakraborty's arrangement gives the track a layered quality that rewards repeated listening.

Anupam Roy's vocal here has a quality that is difficult to describe but impossible to miss — it simply feels true. The story told by Kaushik Sen, Saswata Chatterjee, Gaurav Chakraborty, Arpita Chatterjee, Tanusree Chakraborty, Devlina Kumar in Toy Train finds its musical expression here — Toy Train is where the film's heart beats loudest.

2022 marked the release of Toy Train, and Toy Train was the track that ensured the album would be remembered. There is a quality to Toy Train that makes it feel like company — the kind of song you put on when words feel insufficient.

Running to 4:01, the song is exactly as long as it needs to be, which is the hardest length for a songwriter to find. It is, at the end of it, a very good song — and sometimes that is the only explanation that matters.