Tera hone laga hoon (Ajab Prem Ki Ghazab Kahani): Some find him off-key, but Atif Aslam does manage to tug at those heart strings in lilting romantic numbers	Yeh dooriyan (Love Aaj Kal): You can’t keep Pritam down. With Love Aaj Kal, he matched if not bettered Jab We Met. And this Mohit Chauhan song was way up there.
Piya jaise ladoo motichur wale (Radio): When a Himesh Reshammiya song sticks, it stays stuck. And when Rekha Bhardwaj gives him company, you have to say he has a nose for music.	Dhan te dan (Kaminey): If ever there was a case of rhythm getting you, it was this. Play it in a disco and no one sits still. Blame it on Vishal Bhardwaj and Gulzar, Shahid and Chandan.
Chor bazaari (Love Aaj Kal): Talk about an interlude making a song. Pritam again goes for the unconventional voice of Neeraj Shridhar and comes up trumps.	Pocket mein rocket (Rocket Singh): Rahman find Benny Dayal sings this catchy Salim-Sulaiman track and Jaideep Sahni fills it up with the most imaginative words.
Masakali (Delhi-6): Mohit Chauhan’s voice prances around like a pigeon as A.R. Rahman brings back the accordion with elan. Prasoon Joshi’s words flutter.	Emosanal atyachar (Dev D): Composer Amit Trivedi is the find of the year. While all the songs work, this one, by Band Masters Rangeela and Raseela, takes the vodka!
Tum mile (Tum Mile): Drumrolls again for Pritam. While the film had three terrific tracks, we picked the feel-good title song that was far better than the movie.	Shukran allah (Kurbaan): A Sonu-Shreya love song after a long time, that too for Saif-Kareena. The Salim-Sulaiman song touched the right notes.
Aal izz well (3 Idiots): If you didn’t know who composed this one, you would never have guessed it was Shantanu Moitra. But the Parineeta man does deliver the new youth anthem.	Genda phool (Delhi-6): That Rahman is truly the baap of fusion is evident from this folk-funk number, co-compsed by Rajat Dholakia. There you are going oye oye oye!
Hai junoon (New York): Copied or not, this Pritam song was the soul of the film and who else but the effortless K.K. to cream through the melodious stanzas.	Iktara (Wake Up Sid): Amit Trivedi guest composed this song in the Shankar Ehsaan Loy soundtrack and stole all the thunder. Our song of the year.