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*A R Rahman and Vande Mataram*
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.
