Yeh Kaisi Jagah - Hamari Adhuri Kahani by Jeet Gannguli, Deepali Sathe

Few songs from 2015 have held their ground as well as Yeh Kaisi Jagah - Hamari Adhuri Kahani, a track that keeps finding new audiences. Jeet Gannguli'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 Kaisi Jagah - Hamari Adhuri Kahani, Jeet Gannguli, Deepali Sathe clearly belongs in the second group. The song is tied to Emraan Hashmi, Vidya Balan, Rajkummar Rao, whose presence gives Yeh Kaisi Jagah - Hamari Adhuri Kahani a visual dimension that fans of the film will always associate with it.

When it came out in 2015, Yeh Kaisi Jagah - Hamari Adhuri Kahani felt timely. Years later, it feels timeless. Some music is background. Yeh Kaisi Jagah - Hamari Adhuri Kahani demands attention — not aggressively, but in the way a good conversation does.

Running to 4:37, the song is exactly as long as it needs to be, which is the hardest length for a songwriter to find. It is, simply, one of the better songs to come from Hindi in recent memory — and the numbers agree.