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“One Love” (alternately titled “One Love – Taj Anthem” or “Taj Anthem”) is a single composed by A.R. Rahman, which was made to commemorate the beauty of Taj Mahal and celebrate its status as one of the Seven Wonders of the World. The official tracklist consists of six versions of the track “One Love” rendered in six different languages, Hindi, Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu, Kannada and Bengali. All the versions were sung by A.R.Rahman, Karthik and Naresh Iyer. “India Unites for Taj” was the tagline of the album.
Background of the song
A Swiss group conducted public voting to select the new wonders was launched by the New Seven Wonders Society, a Swiss group, in 2000. Taj was shortlisted in the final 21 contenders. Several campaigns were planned to place Taj in the ultimate list and probably, the most effective one was the song One Love. The album cover had the following quote inscripted on it: “Let this anthem enthuse you to help the Taj! Go forth and vote! The Taj needs you!!!” The album consisited of a single track featured in six different languages.
This song went unnoticed by majority of us. This post is an attempt to bring this song to memory. Here are the versions in Hindi and Tamil.
“One Love” (alternately titled “One Love – Taj Anthem” or “Taj Anthem”) is a single composed by A.R. Rahman, which was made to commemorate the beauty of Taj Mahal and celebrate its status as one of the Seven Wonders of the World. The official tracklist consists of six versions of the track “One Love” rendered in six different languages, Hindi, Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu, Kannada and Bengali. All the versions were sung by A.R.Rahman, Karthik and Naresh Iyer. “India Unites for Taj” was the tagline of the album.
Background of the song
A Swiss group conducted public voting to select the new wonders was launched by the New Seven Wonders Society, a Swiss group, in 2000. Taj was shortlisted in the final 21 contenders. Several campaigns were planned to place Taj in the ultimate list and probably, the most effective one was the song One Love. The album cover had the following quote inscripted on it: “Let this anthem enthuse you to help the Taj! Go forth and vote! The Taj needs you!!!” The album consisited of a single track featured in six different languages.
This song went unnoticed by majority of us. This post is an attempt to bring this song to memory. Here are the versions in Hindi and Tamil.
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