Heer' in a film as 'mainstream' as the 2012 Jab Tak Hai Jaan. But there it is, sung like a ghost song by Harshdeep Kaur, giving flesh to AR Rahman's evocative, almost 'banjara' music.
And the lyrics by Gulzar, transposing the doomed Heer-Ranjha and Mirza-Sahiban love stories — which along with that of Sassi-Pannu — encapsulates romance in Punjabi folklore.
Kaur's voice remains a ripple pretty much through the song, until it soars — 'Ho mainu le jaaye Mirza koi/ Le jaaye Mirza koi..' (Someone like Mirza take me...). The pace is slow, because so seems its subject — a slow burn.