दुआ-ए-ख़ैर

Dua-e-Khair (दुआ-ए-ख़ैर) is the closing track of Ruslaan's (2024) five-song soundtrack — a slow, prayer-like number sung by Divya Kumar with lyrics by Bipin Das. At 5:26, it is the longest song on the album, released as part of Saregama's Ruslaan (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) on 22 April 2024, days ahead of the film's 26 April theatrical release. Sung largely in Punjabi-inflected Hindi, the song is framed as a plea for divine guidance — its title literally translating to 'a prayer for well-being' — and carries a devotional, Sufi-tinged register distinct from the album's other romantic and dance-oriented tracks.

Per the song's official credits, music production and arrangement was handled under the name 'AM.AN,' with acoustic guitar and resonator guitar named among the featured instruments — pointing to a stripped-down, organic arrangement rather than the synth-and-beat production common on the rest of the Ruslaan album. Sources differ on who composed the track: the official Saregama YouTube upload and Spotify credit Akashdeep Sengupta as music composer, while Wikipedia and Bollywood Hungama's soundtrack tables list Rajat Nagpal — both were credited composers on the wider Ruslaan album (alongside Vishal Mishra), so it is possible the two aggregator sources are conflating album-wide and song-specific credits.

Bipin Das's lyric opens mid-crisis — 'Main karaun ki? Kith jaun re? Haay, dar pe tere, Rabba, bas main aaun re' ('What should I do? Where should I go? Oh, at your door, God, let me just arrive') — using the Punjabi vocative 'Rabba' rather than the more common Urdu 'Khuda' or Hindi 'Bhagwan,' placing the song in the folk-devotional register associated with Punjabi Sufi and qawwali-adjacent writing. The title phrase itself, 'dua-e-khair,' is Urdu-Arabic in origin, meaning a prayer specifically for well-being or goodness — giving the song a clear devotional rather than romantic frame, unusual for a film otherwise built around action and romance.

Ruslaan (2024), directed by Karan Lalit Butani for Sri Sathya Sai Arts, follows Aayush Sharma as a man who secretly joins RAW to shed the stigma of his terrorist father's past — a premise built around guilt, redemption, and searching for direction, themes Dua-e-Khair echoes directly in its lyric of pleading for guidance at God's door. Released as part of the film's soundtrack on 22 April 2024, the song rounds out an album otherwise dominated by upbeat and romantic numbers ('Taade', 'Pehla Ishq', 'Dil Phisal Gaya', 'Roar of Ruslaan'), giving Ruslaan's music a reflective closing note ahead of the film's 26 April theatrical release.

Dua-e-Khair has drawn far less attention than its album-mate Taade — its official Saregama video sits at under 100,000 YouTube views as of mid-2026, reflecting both Ruslaan's overall commercial struggles and the song's placement as a reflective closer rather than a promotional lead single. It stands, nonetheless, as a notable Bollywood outing for singer Divya Kumar in a devotional register, and one of the credited works for composer(s) Rajat Nagpal and/or Akashdeep Sengupta and lyricist Bipin Das within 2024's film-music landscape.