on the occasion of the 74th independence day the music composers association of india mcai is set to gift the nation a new rendition of the indian national song vande mataram which was composed by bankim chandra what makes the new composition unique is that it has been put together by 100 wellknown leading music composers across india at a time when the nation is battling with rising cases of covid19 and it aims to inspire and give people courage we hope that our version will galvanise all indians together among those who have contributed to the song are bappi lahiri hariharan daler mehndi loy mendonca ismail darbar kailash kher salim merchant shaan adnan sami lalit pandit louis banks anup jalota amit trivedi sandesh shandilya and so many others says composer ashish rego the nation needs positivity and hope 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 we hope that 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 and lyrics have been given by vipin mishra it has been coproduced by somesh mathur and justinuday duo