Yeh Gham Ke Savere - Saiyan by Lata Mangeshkar

Yeh Gham Ke Savere - Saiyan is the kind of song that earns its place in a playlist and then refuses to leave. Lata Mangeshkar, Sajjad Hussain's arrangement gives the track a layered quality that rewards repeated listening.

There are singers who perform songs and singers who live inside them. On Yeh Gham Ke Savere - Saiyan, Lata Mangeshkar clearly belongs in the second group. The connection between a talented ensemble cast and this song is part of what makes it resonate beyond the film itself.

Released in 1951, it arrived at a time when Hindi music needed exactly this kind of sincerity. There is no right time to listen to Yeh Gham Ke Savere - Saiyan. There is only the moment you press play and realise it was the right choice.

The concision of Yeh Gham Ke Savere - Saiyan — just 3:38 — is part of what makes it work. There is nothing here that should not be. It is, simply, one of the better songs to come from Hindi in recent memory — and the numbers agree.