Revealed: AR Rahman’s ‘Masakali’ Was Originally Made For ‘Om Shanti Om’

MUMBAI-Director and choreographer Farah Khan has revealed that Oscar-winning composer A.R. Rahman originally composed the ‘Masakali’ track for her film ‘Om Shanti Om’.

Farah recently visited the farmhouse of music director Vishal Dadlani for her YouTube vlog, where the two spoke about their decades-long professional association.

Farah recalled that she had approached A.R. Rahman for the music of ‘Om Shanti Om’ before Vishal-Shekhar eventually came on board. She remembered telling Vishal that she would first approach Rahman and, if things did not work out, she would turn to Vishal and Shekhar.

“The first song which Rahman made for Om Shanti Om was Masakali! I don’t know where I was going to put it but I love that song and love that word,” Farah said during the vlog.

Vishal had hoped the collaboration with Rahman would work out and suggested that he and Shekhar could assist him on the project.

Vishal also joked that even if he and Shekhar had not worked on ‘Om Shanti Om’, the film would still have had great music. Farah responded that the film’s music was epic because of them.

“The big, masala music that was in ‘Om Shanti Om’, is the only one. This is the last one! The traditional masala Bollywood musical is this one. Even now I get reels explaining how we made ‘Dhoom Tana’ without AI at that time when there was no AI. The visuals! How did they create it? We just did it, and we were having fun,” Vishal said.

The ‘Masakali’ track later became part of Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra’s ‘Delhi-6’, starring Abhishek Bachchan and Sonam Kapoor. (IANS)