Upon its release, the song received generally positive reviews from, applauding it as a great adaption. (You Are My Destiny)' was commercially successful.
On the US, the song debuted at number 100. The following week it peaked at number 15, experiencing one of the largest upward movements on the chart. Internationally, the song charted strongly, topping the charts in countries including in Australia, Finland, Israel and Ireland, as well as peaking within the top ten of the charts in countries such as New Zealand and the United Kingdom. The music video was shot in Vienna, Austria at a Tramway Museum, recreating the last scene from the movie.
In the United Kingdom, the English-language version of the song was sung by various voice actors of British children's shows during the 2009 Promotional dance video. It was also sung in, which topped the for two weeks in late 2009. The Pussycat dolls have performed 'Jai Ho! (You Are My Destiny)' during several live performances, including the, and an episode of. 'It's crazy how the whole thing came about, [.] I'm a writer, and I've been fortunate enough to write for the Dolls, but when they asked me to look at the movie and do my own version, I was really afraid to take on the task of rewriting the lyrics, [.] because I thought the movie was so profound, I didn't know how to make sure I kept the integrity of the movie and the love story, but also make it cool enough for the Pussycat Dolls and for people all over the world to connect to.' — Scherzinger on the process of recreating 'Jai Ho!'
At the beginning of 2009, magazine stated that Doll Domination failed to make a commercial impact on the Billboard 200, unlike their previous effort, which sold 3 million copies in the United States. Subsequently, Scherzinger confirmed that the current album would be re-released with new songs. In the interview she said: 'it's a new life, a new push for Doll Domination. In this industry these days, that's what we're trying to do, always put new music out there and get people to pay attention.
So this is a way for people to get new songs of ours and for people who haven't picked up the album so far to get another spin of our music.' After watching Slumdog Millionaire, record executives and wanted to turn ' into a ' record without deviating from the original melody'. After Fair and Iovine were successful in getting a from Rahman, they asked Scherzinger, the lead singer of the Pussycat Dolls, to write an interpretation of the song. Scherzinger was hesitant at first, stating in an interview that: '[.] I was scared to death to touch it [and] afraid for people to hear it before I even wrote it'. Scherzinger put her 'heart into writing the lyrics and put in themes from the film Slumdog Millionaire. Love and destiny were elements from the movie that [she] put into the track'.
She stated that she 'prayed every night to do this right'. Fair and Iovine additionally hired, and to write their own interpretation of the song., a member of The Writing Camp, stated that: 'They [Fair and Iovine] wanted to get a bunch of different versions to see who could nail a version for the Pussycat Dolls.'
Once all interpretations were complete, 'they [Fair and Iovine] took parts of The Writing Camp version, parts of Ester Dean's version, and parts of another version, and they put them together, and then Nicole [Scherzinger] and Ron [Fair] filled in the blanks that they thought were missing'. Bogart additionally stated that it was 'a very unique and awkward way of writing a song'. Scherzinger, Fair, Dean, Bogart,,, Candace Thorbourne, are credited for writing the track, while its production was handled by Fair and Scherzinger. The song was recorded in London, while Scherzinger and Rahman corresponded via webcam. Scherzinger's version replaces the original tune's Hindi words with English lyrics, including the chorus, 'You are the reason that I breathe/ You are the reason that I still believe/ You are my destiny/ Jai ho.' Stephanie Nolen of the lyrics as 'racier than the original Hindi words by Indian poet.' (You Are My Destiny)' premiered on and was issued as a on February 23, 2009, a day after Rahman won for 'Jai Ho' and for the of Slumdog Millionaire at the.