AR Rahman To Score Music For Hansal Mehta's Biographical Series 'Gandhi' (Image-X/arrahman)
Oscar winning composer AR Rahman has signed on to score the music for the upcoming Hansal Mehta series Gandhi. Rahman dropped the news on the occasion of Gandhi Jayanti.
About the project AR Rahman said that watching Gandhi’s younger life was a revelation – his experiments with truth, life, and so many other things – show the evolution of his character. “I was deeply honored to be scoring the music for this story, in collaboration with Applause Entertainment and under the articulate direction of Hansal Mehta,” said the musical genius.
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Sharing the announcement, Rahman took to X wrote, “On the occasion of Gandhi Jayanti, remembering the Mahatma and thrilled to announce this very special collaboration!”
On the occasion of Gandhi Jayanti, remembering the Mahatma and thrilled to announce this very special collaboration! 🎶@ApplauseSocial @nairsameer @mehtahansal@SegalDeepak @sidkhaitan@pratikg80@prasoon_garg @PriyaJhavar @devnidhib #KishoreAthwal #Gandhi pic.twitter.com/cFJw0qI6Zu
— A.R.Rahman (@arrahman) October 2, 2024
Sameer Nair, managing director of Applause Entertainment, said that Gandhi was not just a series but a global narrative on the triumph of the human spirit. “A.R. Rahman’s music will infuse a soul-stirring dimension to this iconic story to resonate with audiences around the world. With Rahman’s score, I believe that we are crafting something truly special — a series that both entertains and inspires,” he said.
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Directed by Hansal Mehta, the series is based on historian Ramchandra Guha’s books Gandhi Before India and Gandhi: The Years That Changed the World, 1914-1948.
The first season covers the formative years of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi’s life as a law student in London and later as lawyer and civil rights activist in South Africa, during which time he conceived the ideas that ultimately led India to independence from British rule. Gandhi became known as Mahatma, or great soul, for his leading part in the independence movement. The second and third seasons will cover the rest of his life.
