2018

This is one of *the* songs of the year for me. Sanjay Leela Bhansali's composition is wonderfully complex and couldn't have been easy to sing but Arijit does full justice to it. I'm not sure if the middle-eastern singing style he adopts in this song is authentic but boy does it sound good! -Param

A nice twist to Arijit's musical abilities and SLB as a composer. While the rest of the songs are resoundingly SLB flavored, bint-e-dil is atypical and while may not sit well with everyone in terms of what the movie setting offers, is a great attempt to showcase the extent of SLB as a composer and AS as a singer. -Sowmya

Arijit is outstanding. It’s almost like inhabiting a character through singing, voice modulation. Crazy inflections. -Sankhayan

Not much there except some Arabic. -Ashok

Pathetic attempt at singing the non-hindi parts. -Nishant

Economic, measured beauty. -Nagarajan

Exotic Central Asian and Middle Eastern elements add interest to the track. -DM

Arijit at times sounds as if he is straining. -Sunil

Arijit gives the song its unique character. Lyrics by Amir Khusro :). -Pavan

Is there anything Arijit can't sing? -Arun

Every once in a while, Arijit makes the effort to tell us why he is The Arijit Singh. -Meera

Why SLB believes he ought to be a composer continues to baffle me. There are probably a hundred good examples of Arabic/Persian influenced Hindi film songs, but this is definitely nowhere on that list. -Megha

I don't want to get into debates on "authenticity" - but this song has a distinctly different flavor that I think Arijit has pulled off well; both melodic and lyrical intricacies... -Sanjeev

Standard SLB album. He needs to try and do something different. Same chorals/heavy percussion that is becoming very repetitive. -Hemendra

All songs of Padmaavat can be summerized in two words - 1) Predictable 2) Boring. Here's the formula that SLB uses in all his movies - one song that's overly sweetened love song (typically Yaman raga based), a couple that are based on an existing folk tune or theme, and rest with a lot of chorus (typically male). -Pranav

One has to give credit to Arijit for trying something new and putting in his heart and soul into getting a more Middle-eastern feel to his singing. I wish the orchestration had followed a similar route. -Ketan

Arijit not in his soporific self, for a change. -Vibhendu