'Gandhi is our export to the Western world'

NAAT IWIAATT

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AHMAN says he drew from Gandhi’s own favourite pieces of music for his score.

“You know the two biggest influences of the aura of Gandhi, like ‘Vaishnava Jana Toh’ and ‘Raghupati Raghava Raja Ram...’ and so Jaijaivanti and Pilu are ragas which are very close to what I felt like the themes could be in, and Sahana from Carnatic music.” Rahman even got a solo violin player to play 18 times and make it sound like an entire Indian violin section. Explaining his decision, Rahman says, “I tried to get an Indian violin section that can play with all the gamakas (embellishment between notes), but I couldn’t get them to play together. So we got one girl called Ranga Priya to record 18 times for all the themes and then orchestrated the whole thing.” Other compositions were recorded in his own studio and in Budapest.