Tu Hi Tu, Pt. 1 - Kick by Himesh Reshammiya, Mohammed Irfan

Some songs are made for a single moment. Tu Hi Tu, Pt. 1 - Kick is made for all of them. Himesh Reshammiya has a history of strong work, and the music on Tu Hi Tu, Pt. 1 - Kick is among the most memorable of it.

The performance by Himesh Reshammiya, Mohammed Irfan is the centrepiece here — controlled where it needs to be, open where it counts. Salman Khan, Jacqueline Fernandez, Randeep Hooda, Mithun Chakraborty, Nawazuddin Siddiqui gave the film its soul, and Tu Hi Tu, Pt. 1 - Kick is the song that most directly channels that feeling into music.

When it came out in 2014, Tu Hi Tu, Pt. 1 - Kick felt timely. Years later, it feels timeless. It is the kind of track that works at full volume with friends and equally well in a quiet room alone — the mood adjusts without the song changing.

Running to 5:29, the song is exactly as long as it needs to be, which is the hardest length for a songwriter to find. Tu Hi Tu, Pt. 1 - Kick endures because it was built on feeling rather than formula — and that is the one thing streaming numbers cannot manufacture.