When producer director Yash Chopra heard the tunes composed by composer Madan Mohan years ago, he immediately decided to include them in his film ‘Veer Zara’. This has been a wonderful experiment in Hindi cinema in which songs were later written on the blank tunes composed by a composer and these tunes were used as the soul of new songs in a film. Composer Madan Mohan’s son Sanjeev Kohli has made interesting revelations about this music on the re-release of the film.
Sanjeev Kohli says, “Veer Zara was such a dream for me that I could never even dare to believe it to be true. It was the realization of a son’s dream for his father’s musical legacy. My father, the late composer Madan Mohan, died in 1975 at the age of only 51. He did not get a chance to create much new. Big production houses and popular awards always stayed away from him, and this thing used to hurt him a lot.
One day in 2003, Yash Chopra shared with Sanjeev Kohli that he had decided to direct a film. Before this, Yash Chopra had made his last film six years ago. According to the information, Yash Chopra wanted a film that would have old world music but without western influence. He wanted music that had a strong melody based on Indian sounds, like the music of the 60s and 70s, like the music of Heer Ranjha and Laila Majnu.
