It’s always something of great pride when we hear people abroad enjoy our Indian music and films, no? Recently, thanks to Twitter, a video of the US Navy band singing along to Swades‘ song ‘Yeh Jo Desh Hai Mera‘ went viral. Shah Rukh Khan, who starred in the 2004 Ashutosh Gowariker directorial, came across this video just last night and expressed his happiness and gratitude.
The video was of the Navy band’s performance for the US Chief of Naval Operations and Taranjit Singh Sandhu — the Ambassador of India to the United States.
Sharing the clip, SRK wrote:
Thank u for sharing this sir. How lovely. Git all nostalgic about the time spent making this beautiful film and belief sung in the song. Thanx @AshGowariker @RonnieScrewvala @arrahman & everyone who made it possible.
Check out his tweet:
Thank u for sharing this sir. How lovely. Git all nostalgic about the time spent making this beautiful film and belief sung in the song. Thanx @AshGowariker @RonnieScrewvala @arrahman & everyone who made it possible. https://t.co/rFRKcHTDCg
— Shah Rukh Khan (@iamsrk) March 29, 2021
This sure is such a lovely performa nce on a great track, indeed!
Speaking about the track, the composer, A.R. Rahman also took to his Twitter to share the video tagging Ashutosh and lyricist Javed Akhtar and wrote, “Swades rules for ever”.
Check out the US Navy’s performance here:
🇺🇸🇮🇳 The @usnavyband Sea Chanters share a song of happiness and love at a small performance for the @USNavyCNO and the Ambassador of India to the United States, @SandhuTaranjitS.
The Navy Band has been connecting the @USNavy to our partner nations since 1925! #HappyHoli https://t.co/2VYPhB3t5S
— U.S. Navy Band (@usnavyband) March 28, 2021
The film, performances and music sure did manage to win all our hearts and so has this video!