"We have also completed 50 per cent of the IMAX film Taj Mahal. We are also
making a very exciting project; a contemporary love story based on Kalidasa's
Meghdoot. Gulzarsaab is writing the script, which will be a musical. The music
is, of course, by Rahman"
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Rahman is my schoolmate and a friend. We have worked together in over
more than a hundred commercials. When the idea of Vande Mataram came to me, I
created a CD cover with the tricolour and presented it to him. I said to him,
"This is your first music album." Till that time he was scoring music only for
feature films. It was an enormous challenge for both of us. We then embarked
on a journey to discover India and ourselves. It took six months of travelling
before he wrote Maa Tujje Salam. The effort was to create something which we
would be proud of even after five or 10 years. We turned out to be right. I
was in a different spirit all the time. It was magical and there was a certain
madness when we held on to an idea and believed in it no matter what. We never
thought about the result. The beauty of Vande Mataram was the feeling I got
when I heard it for the very first time, and then again after 10 years. The
feeling remained the same, and I think it did
for a lot of Indians too. My father saw Vande Mataram before he passed away.
I am sure he would have been very proud of it. After we did Maa Tuje Salam,
India Today told my father that though the song starts with Maa, it should have
been Appa Tuje Salam because it was he who influenced me to make that song.
Rahman and I do very little work but the work we did would probably live
forever.
