Photocopy - Jai Ho by Sajid, Wajid, Himesh Reshammiya, Keerthi Sagathia, Palak Muchhal

Released as part of Jai Ho, Photocopy - Jai Ho announced itself as a standout the moment it reached listeners. What makes Photocopy - Jai Ho musically distinctive is the composition by Sajid, Wajid, which balances simplicity with depth.

There are singers who perform songs and singers who live inside them. On Photocopy - Jai Ho, Sajid, Wajid, Himesh Reshammiya, Keerthi Sagathia, Palak Muchhal clearly belongs in the second group. The story told by Salman Khan, Daisy Shah, Tabu, Danny Denzongpa in Jai Ho finds its musical expression here — Photocopy - Jai Ho is where the film's heart beats loudest.

The 2014 release gave fans something to hold onto — a track built for repeated listening rather than a single play. Whether it plays on a long drive, during a quiet evening at home, or through earphones on a crowded commute, the song meets the listener where they are.

The 4:36 runtime feels perfectly judged — long enough to develop its ideas, short enough to compel a second play. It is, at the end of it, a very good song — and sometimes that is the only explanation that matters.