2022

Best song of Laal Singh Chaddha. -Sukanya

One of the best songs of the year. Shilpa Rao’s voice is soothing. Arijit, like always, is wonderful. -Pankaj

Sincerity and clear-headedness can go a long way in making an honest, good song. -Tatsam

Arijit handles the high octave melody, while Shilpa takes care of the lower octaves, and Pritam balancing the love ballad with harmonium over strings. Gives me a feel of ai hairat-e-aashiqui. Shilpa rao shines! -Pradeep

Another song in this year's list that uses the harmonium to set the track up in a very creative way, the rest of the track uses typical arrangements to uplift a unique repartee between Arijit Singh and Shilpa Rao rendering a very introspective, lowkey melody. There's pain here but also a very strangely satisfying sense of redemption. -Shasank

I like the arrangement, it's almost like a devotional song. -Zico

It is very pleasing to hear the sound of a harmonium in a modern song. Amitabh Bhattacharya crystallizes the essence of the characters of the film so well in his words. -Sunil

Nice tune. My problem is that the voice does not fit Aamir the romantic actor's face. Arijit is a 'dukhi aatma' singer the way he sings. That's like asking Mahendra Kapoor to sing for Rajesh Khanna (shudder). -Ketan

The organ and tabla were a bit of a fresh air amidst some of the synthetic music this year. -Meera

Shilpa Rao should sing more. -Neha

Shilpa Rao is extremely good in this song. -Anuradha

Another pleasant listen, music, and voices (particularly Shilpa Rao) - I do like same-octave duets...but tune is formulaic, algorithmic and everything is so processed...nothing distinctive about it. -Sanjeev

Fine enough song, but too long given the paucity of musical ideas. -Ashok