Galat Baat Hai - Main Tera Hero by Sajid, Wajid, Neeti Mohan, Javed Ali

Released as part of Main Tera Hero, Galat Baat Hai - Main Tera Hero announced itself as a standout the moment it reached listeners. The music, composed by Sajid, Wajid, carries the song forward with a confidence that matches the performance.

There are singers who perform songs and singers who live inside them. On Galat Baat Hai - Main Tera Hero, Sajid, Wajid, Neeti Mohan, Javed Ali clearly belongs in the second group. The song is tied to Varun Dhawan, Nargis Fakhri, Ilena D'cruz, whose presence gives Galat Baat Hai - Main Tera Hero a visual dimension that fans of the film will always associate with it.

The 2014 release gave fans something to hold onto — a track built for repeated listening rather than a single play. Listeners have described the experience of Galat Baat Hai - Main Tera Hero differently — romantic, melancholic, uplifting — which suggests the song is large enough to hold many truths.

Running to 4:19, 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.