Dooriyan by Kamal Khan, Simran Bhardwaj

Dooriyan is the kind of song that earns its place in a playlist and then refuses to leave. Gurmeet Singh's arrangement gives the track a layered quality that rewards repeated listening.

The vocal on Dooriyan is among the better performances Kamal Khan, Simran Bhardwaj has committed to record. a talented ensemble cast gave the film its soul, and Dooriyan is the song that most directly channels that feeling into music.

In 2023, Punjabi produced many songs, but Dooriyan was one of the handful that genuinely cut through. The emotional register of Dooriyan is wide enough to fit celebration and solitude equally well.

The 3:19 runtime feels perfectly judged — long enough to develop its ideas, short enough to compel a second play. It is, simply, one of the better songs to come from Punjabi in recent memory — and the numbers agree.