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Jana Gana Mana |
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Jana Gana Mana
Celebrating 61 years of Indian Independence |
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Year 2007 marks 60 years of independence and 151 years of beginning of India’s freedom struggle. On this occasion, we, at BharatBala Productions are proud to present a collection of films on Jana Gana Mana, the national anthem.
The album is a tribute to the feeling of pride and unity evoked by the national anthem.
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“Jana Gana Mana…”, was composed in Bengali by Nobel laureate Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore. It was first sung on 27 December 1911 at the Calcutta session of the Indian National Congress. Later, the first stanza of the poem was adopted in its Hindi version by the Constituent Assembly as the National Anthem of India on 24 January 1950. Since its inception, the poem has captured and fuelled the pride and passion for the country among the hearts of Indians.
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In the words of Tagore:
I pronounce the victory in Jana Gana Mana of that Bhagya Vidhata, the Lord of Destiny, the Reader of the Collective Mind of India, the Perennial Guide of India, who has from age after age held steadfast the reins of India's chariot through rise and fall, through the straight path and the curved.
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" Jana Gana Mana Adhinayaka Jaya He
Bharat Bhagya Vidhata
Punjab Sindh Gujarat Maratha
Dravida Utkala Banga
Vindhya Himachal Yamuna Ganga
Uchchala Jaladhi Taranga
Tava Shubha Name Jage
Tava Shubha Ashisha Mange
Gahe Tubh Jaya Gata
Jana Gana Mangaldayak Jay He
Bharat Bhagya Vidhata
Jaya He! Jaya He! Jaya He!
Jaye, Jaye, Jaya, Jaya He "
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Collector's Edition DVDs & Audio CDs out now on
Times Music
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Musical maestros from across the country have come together to create individual and collective renditions of the national anthem.
This timeless effort has been put together as a collector's DVD pack in the form of 24 classic films. The DVD features unique individual rendition of the national anthem by musical maestros for the first time ever. It also features a collective vocal rendition and a collective instrumental rendition filmed in the landscape of Ladakh. In addition, it has a film with the Indian Army jawans saluting the nation at 21,000 feet in the icy glacier of Siachen. |
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We brought together legends like Pandit Bhimsen Joshi, Pandit Jasraj, , D.K. Pattamal,
Lata Mangeshkar, Pt. Hari Prasad Chaurasia,
Ustad Amjad Ali Khan, Bhupen Hazarika,
Asha Bhonsle, Pt. Shiv Kumar Sharma,
Pt. Vishwa Mohan Bhat, Ustad Sultan Khan,
Amaan Ali Bangash, Ayaan Ali Bangash,
Rahul Sharma, Vikku Vinayakram, Uma Shankar,
Kadri Gopalnath, Ravikiran, E.Gayathri, Pt. Kartick Kumar,
Hariharan and Kavita Krishnamurthy and many more to lend their presence in the same album for the first time ever. |
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The music for the album is produced by legendary composer A. R. Rahman.
The DVD pack contains:
1. A special booklet which takes us on a journey to the origin and importance of the national anthem with articles and photographs from The Times Of India archive.
2.A DVD featuring 24 films and exclusive behind the scene moments from this historic project.
3.An Audio CD containing 34 renditions including vocal and instrumental renditions of the national anthem by musical maestros.
Here are the links of a couple of films from the album:
Pt. Bhimsen Joshi
Pt. Hariprasad Chaurasia
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| A word from the Directors who conceptualized the album |
Directors BhartBala and Kanika Myer with A R Rehman
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Kanika Myer
These inspired new renderings of our National Anthem, were conceived to serve as a catharsis of the deep yet dormant emotions of pride and love we feel for India no matter where we live. I was not able to vocalise these emotions until we took this journey, a journey of almost 5 years where we truly explored India through film and music.
It can be best described as an urgent call to bring the great songs of the nation back to the hearts of people, to give the songs a new life, to not let them be merely revered as sacred relics, to bring to them an emotion relevant today.
Vande Mataram was the first step, followed by Jan Gan Man.....
Filming for the National Anthem was a very humbling experience and the energies of all the great musical talent of our country was magical as each gave of themselves unconditionally
to the one song that unites us all.....
Bharatbala
It felt important to treasure and record some of the greatest talents of India and keep
this idea alive as a timeless emotion and this is just the beginning. There is more to do.
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| Following is a detail of the content on the DVD and the Audio CD |
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