Tun-Tunuk-Tun - Hera Pheri by Bally Sagoo, Richa Sharma

Tun-Tunuk-Tun - Hera Pheri works because it does not try to do too much — it finds one feeling and holds it perfectly. Credit goes to Bally Sagoo for a score that understands exactly what the song needs and nothing more.

Bally Sagoo, Richa Sharma's vocal here has a quality that is difficult to describe but impossible to miss — it simply feels true. Hearing Tun-Tunuk-Tun - Hera Pheri without thinking of Akshay Kumar, Tabu, Suniel Shetty, Paresh Rawal, Kulbhushan Kharbanda, Gulshan Grover, Sulbha Arya, Mukesh Khanna, Om Puri, Namrata Shirodkar, Kashmera Shah is almost impossible for anyone who has seen Hera Pheri.

2000 marked the release of Hera Pheri, and Tun-Tunuk-Tun - Hera Pheri was the track that ensured the album would be remembered. The emotional register of Tun-Tunuk-Tun - Hera Pheri is wide enough to fit celebration and solitude equally well.

The 7:00 runtime feels perfectly judged — long enough to develop its ideas, short enough to compel a second play. It is, simply, one of the better songs to come from Hindi in recent memory — and the numbers agree.