5 Songs Which Showcase Arijit Singh's Versatility

Sankhayan Ghosh

Binte Dil (Padmaavat)

The most complex job here may have been Arijit's, who achieves a sort of playback singing equivalent of a Daniel Day-Lewis level physical transformation, doing some crazy inflections in this Arabic-sounding song.

I am India (Qaidi Band)

Unlike other songs in the list, you can't even trace the faintest hint of the core character of his voice. Cast as the voice of a fresh-faced debutant actor here, Arijit doesn't sound like Arijit at all

Baaton Ko Teri (All is Well)

In another time, Himesh Reshammiya, the composer here, would have also sung it. You can imagine it in his voice and lose yourself in cheap 15-year-old nostalgia.Arijit sounds less like himself and more like Reshammiya. Maybe the singer figured a way to keep both the label and the composer happy.

Yeh Ishq Hai (Rangoon)

Arijit sounds unusually gravelly: the parts that he sings low — which is pretty much half the song — operates almost entirely on the cracks and grains in his voice. Only someone who is great with the lower notes can go as high as he does in the song's mad, Sufi climax.

Jwalamukhi (99 songs)

After having been around for almost a decade, Arijit's voice has acquired a patina of heavy richness, like dark chocolate. It has become more bassy. AR Rahman taps into these subtle textures in the singer's voice for his heartbreak ballad, the newest song in this list, which Arijit delivers with punch and attitude.