Ya Rabba Rabba Ho - Rocket Tarzan by Suman Kalyanpur

There is an honesty to Ya Rabba Rabba Ho - Rocket Tarzan that separates it from most Hindi songs released around the same time. Suman Kalyanpur, Robin Banerjee 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 Ya Rabba Rabba Ho - Rocket Tarzan, Suman Kalyanpur clearly belongs in the second group. The story told by a talented ensemble cast in Rocket Tarzan finds its musical expression here — Ya Rabba Rabba Ho - Rocket Tarzan is where the film's heart beats loudest.

Released in 1963, it arrived at a time when Hindi music needed exactly this kind of sincerity. Listeners have described the experience of Ya Rabba Rabba Ho - Rocket Tarzan differently — romantic, melancholic, uplifting — which suggests the song is large enough to hold many truths.

Running to 3:21, 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.