Surabhi Redkar of Koimoi commented, 'While this Arijit Singh track will blow your mind away, the original song 'Main Tenu Samjhawan' by Rahat Fateh Ali Khan is unforgettable and leaves you with the question, why revise such a beautiful number. The song received a mixed response from critics and was highly compared with the original song. It retained the number one position on Indian iTunes charts for a few weeks, followed by the 'unplugged' version, and topped many radio charts. The song stayed on top of the Indian charts for many weeks.
'Samjhawan' was released online on Gaana on 12 June 2014 as a single, and as part of the film soundtrack on 16 June 2014. Music for the song was re-created by Sharib− Toshi and produced by Stewart Eduri at YRF Studio, with Vijay Kumar and Deepesh as recording engineers. Producer Karan Johar bought rights to the original hit song 'Main Tenu Samjhawan', which was sung by Pakistani singers Rahat Fateh Ali Khan and Farah Anwar in the Punjabi film Virsa.
