TLI Staff
New Delhi: Vande Mataram, the national song of India composed by Bankim Chandra has seen many renditions over the period of time. AR Rahman’s version particularly still fresh in the memory of 90s kids as it became quite a rage at that time.
On the occasion of 74th Independence Day, a fresh version of the national song put together by as many as 100 musicians was released. Although the entire number is the repetition of the word ‘Vande Mataram’, you still enjoy the different ways in which it is sung depending on the artist be it Hariharan, Lalit Sen, Ismail Darbar, Shankar Ehsaan Loy , Malini Awasthi, Kailash Kher, Bappi Lahiri, Daler Mehendi, Shibani Kashyap, Hariprasad Chaurasia, Shantanu Moitra.
The song is conceived and composed by Aashish Rego with lyrics by Vipin Mishra and co-produced by Somesh Mathur and Justin-Uday Duo and Mr. Anil Wanvari is the executive producer of this video.
“The nation needs positivity and hope,” says Aashish Rego. “We have gone through some of the toughest times in a century. It was about a 115 years ago that Vande Mataram became a clarion call that rallied Indians in their fight against British rule. We hope our version will galvanise all Indians together to emerge as a new rapidly rising nation in the spirit of Creation, Collaboration, Contribution and Celebration. It is time to move ahead as collaborators and not competitors as all 100 of us have done, in this song, to create something greater than the individual.”
Check out the song
These are the 100 Composers who have contributed to the song:
Piyush Kanojia
Vishwamohan Bhatt
Rajat Dholakia
Milind Chitnavis
Anupam Roy
Shameer Tandon
Lalit Sen
John Stewart Eduri
Lavv
Julius Packiam
Loy Mendonca
Indranil Hariharan
Hariharan
Rahul Seth
Kuldeep Singh
Fazal Qureshi
Shail Hada
Ismail Darbar
Dilip Dutta
Inderjit “Tubby” Sharma
Mani Sharma
Abhishek Arora
Ashok Patki
Charles Siqueira Vaz
Vinay Tiwari
Chetan Sashital
Kalpana Patowry
Somesh Mathur
Malini Awasthi
Daler Mehndi
Amit Trivedi
Viju Shah
Lalit Pandit
Bappi Lahiri
Shaan
Vasundhara Das
Sangeeta Pant
Salim Merchant
Raajeev V Bhalla
Vipin Mishra
Dhruv Ghanekar
Gulraj Singh
Sameeruddin
Shonjoy Chowdhary
Zubin Ballaporia
Anand Shrivastava
Kailash Kher
Ram Sampat
Shibani Kashyap
Usha Khanna
Merlin Dsouza
Anup Jalota
Hariharan
Nooran Sisters
Aashish Rego
Adnan Sami
Bikram Ghosh
Shankar Mahadevan
Avadhoot Gupte
Raju Singh
Siddharth Kashyap
Anjaan
Sameer Phaterphekar
Paresh Shah
Jigar Saraiya
Vinnie Hutton
Ehsaan Noorani
Sherrin Varghese
Justin Yesudas
Uday Ninjoor
Viveick Rajgopalan
Gopisunder
Adil Behram
Tapas Relia
Gurukiran
Mame Khan
Sanjeev Kohli
Rex Vijay
D. Imman
K. C. Loy
M. Jayachandran
Jeetendra Jawda
Prashant
Deepak Dev
Dilip Sen
Sameer Sen
Krsna Solo
Anandjibhai Shah
Ranjit Barot
Louis Banks
Shantanu Moitra
Arko Pravo
Sandesh Shandilya
Jeet Ganguly
Amar Mohile
Hariprasad Chaurasia
R. P. Patnaik
Manikant Kadri
Rahul Ranade
Sanjay Wandrekar
Santosh Nair