Music and Youth
MCAI gifts a new rendition of Vande Matram on Independence Day
MUMBAI: On the occasion of the 74th Independence Day, The Music Composers Association of India (MCAI) will be gifting the nation a new rendition of the eternal Indian national song Vande Mataram, which was composed by Bankim Chandra. What makes the new composition unique and different is that it has been put together by 100 leading music composers across India at a time when the nation is battling with rising cases of Covid19.
“The nation needs positivity and hope,” says Aashish Rego. “We have gone through some of the toughest times in a century. It was about 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.”
The song is conceived and composed by Aashish Rego with lyrics by Vipin Mishra and co-produced by Somesh Mathur and Justin-Uday Duo.
Amongst the 100 Composers who have contributed to the song figure:
- Piyush Kanojia
- Vishwamohan Bhatt
- Rajat Dholakia
- Milind Chitnavis
- Anupam Roy
- Shameer Tandon
- Lalit Sen
- John StewartEduri
- 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 SiqueiraVaz
- 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
- AnupJalota
- 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
- ArkoPravo
- Sandesh Shandilya
- Jeet Ganguly
- Amar Mohile
- Hariprasad Chaurasia
- R. P. Patnaik
- Manikant Kadri
- Rahul Ranade
- Sanjay Wandrekar
- Santosh Nair
The song will be released tomorrow and select partners have come on board to give it as well as the music video maximum exposure so that Indians can take hope and help in the building of a new India under Atmanirbhar Bharat.
Among the TV channel partners include:
Music Channel partner: MTV and MTV Beats
News Channel Partner: TV9 Network
Media Partner: Showbox Music, EpicTV, Filmchi
Radio Partner: 92.7 Big FM
Other partners who have come on board include:
Indiantelevision.com, Radioandmusic.com, and Tellychakkar.com, Online Media Partner and Communicate India.
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Chief Minister of Maharashtra Devendra Fadnavis will throw open the proceedings with a landmark ceremony, signalling the state’s backing for a movement that has already mobilised youth across 20-plus countries and 170-plus cities. The sheer scale is staggering: 500-plus volunteers powering the machine, 600,000-plus volunteer hours logged across previous editions, and millions of lives touched annually.
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After Mumbai comes Kolkata on 14 December. New York looms next year. For one weekend in December, Mumbai becomes the epicentre of youth-driven change—and nothing will be quite the same after.
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