Tu - Bobby Jasoos by Shantanu Moitra, Papon, Shreya Ghoshal

Few songs from 2014 have held their ground as well as Tu - Bobby Jasoos, a track that keeps finding new audiences. Shantanu Moitra has a history of strong work, and the music on Tu - Bobby Jasoos is among the most memorable of it.

The performance by Shantanu Moitra, Papon, Shreya Ghoshal is the centrepiece here — controlled where it needs to be, open where it counts. Vidya Balan, Ali Fazal, Arjan Bajwa, Anu Priya, Supriya Pathak, Tanvi Azmi are at the heart of Bobby Jasoos, and Tu - Bobby Jasoos captures their dynamic at its most compelling.

The 2014 release gave fans something to hold onto — a track built for repeated listening rather than a single play. Listeners have described the experience of Tu - Bobby Jasoos differently — romantic, melancholic, uplifting — which suggests the song is large enough to hold many truths.

The concision of Tu - Bobby Jasoos — just 7:02 — is part of what makes it work. There is nothing here that should not be. Songs like Tu - Bobby Jasoos are the reason people fall in love with Hindi music and never quite fall out of it.