Imtiaz Ali reveals that AR Rahman composed ‘Vida Karo’ for ‘Amar Singh Chamkila’ at 2:30 am!

Imtiaz Ali’s latest directorial ‘Amar Singh Chamkila’ starring Diljit Dosanjh, and

Parineeti Chopra

, is winning the hearts of the audience for all the right reasons. The film has AR Rahman composing the music. Recently,

Imtiaz Ali

revealed that the emotional song ‘Vida Karo’ was composed by AR Rahman in the middle of the night at 2:30 am. He shared that the people in the studio were in tears, when they heard the song.

While talking to Radio Nasha, Imtiaz Ali said, “Rahman came and sat at his piano at 2:30 am when I and

Irshad Kamil

were getting ready to leave his studio. He said to switch off the lights and asked for some candles to be lit so that we enjoy the process. He started playing the tune while we spoke about old Hindi film songs… Rahman was talking about music in Guru Dutt films. I was simply enjoying the music as an audience.”
He further opened up about how the lyrics were penned by Irshad Kamil in 45 minutes, "Irshad sat down and wrote the lines within 45 minutes. Rahman said let’s sit down and compose the song right now. While it was happening, some people started crying in the studio. Rahman joked ‘what have you done Irshad Kamil, you are making people cry.”
The song ‘Vida Karo’ is a farewell to the characters of Chamkila (Diljit Dosanjh) and Amarjot (Parineeti Chopra), who were killed for their music after facing years of prejudice and judgement.

Imtiaz also further added about how Arjit brought life to the song, “When a composer sings their song, there is a gravitas and attachment to it. Sometimes you need a singer who can sing the melody with the same attachment. Arijit brings that to the music — he sings truthfully and without milawat. I also enjoy that he sings the whole song. He doesn’t sing one line to bring it in ‘sur’. In this era when people say you can auto tune or get AI to sing the song, he sings truthfully.”