Vande Mataram (album) "It was the hit of the conference." Amid great hype, the album was released on 12 August 1997, three days before the 50th anniversary of Indian independence. The Indian release had only 7 songs while the international release had two additional songs "Masoom" and "Musafir". Later "Masoom" was released in India in the album "Gurus of Peace" and "Musafir" in the album "MTV Total Mix". The album was met with overwhelming responses. Rahman became the first Indian artist of popular music to go international when "Vande Mataram" was released simultaneously in 28 countries across the world. Rahman himself performed live
Vande Mataram (1985 film) Vande Mataram (1985 film) Vande Mataram (English: Salute to Our Generation; ) is a 1985 Telugu Revolutionary film, produced by Anil Babu under the Krishna Chitra banner, presented by Y. Harikrishna and directed by T. Krishna. It stars Dr. Rajasekhar, Vijayashanti in the lead roles and music composed by Chakravarthy. The film is first debut of actor Dr. Rajasekhar into the Telugu film industry. The popular song "Vandemataram" in the film, written by C. Narayana Reddy was first written much earlier, published in a magazine, made popular by singers of "Praja Natya Mandali". The singer Srinivas who sung it for