Jana Gana Mana is a music video produced in 2000 featuring a number of prominent Indian musicians and singers performing the Indian national anthem "Jana Gana Mana." The video was released on 26 January 2000 to mark the 50th year of the Constitution of India and the Republic Day. It has the distinction of being released by the then President of India, in the Central Hall of the Indian Parliament. It was produced by Bharat Bala and Kanika Myer and published by Ministry of Culture, Youth Affairs and Sports, Government of India. Bharat Bala and A. R. Rahman came together to create a historic album called 'Jana Gana Mana'. This was a project in which over 35 top artists of the nation came together to sing or play the national anthem. The project had started as "Desh Ko Salaam" which was telecast in Indian TV channels and on the web on 15 August 1999, in which several great Indian musicians, from the classical to the contemporary, came together to give a soulful and modern rendition of the National Anthem. The video was released on 26 January 2000. Artistes The music was produced and arranged by A.R. Rahman. Vocalists D. K. Pattammal Bhimsen Joshi Lata Mangeshkar Pandit Jasraj M. Balamuralikrishna Jagjit Singh Ajoy Chakrabarthy Parveen Sultana Bhupen Hazarika Saddiq Khan Langa Rashid Khan Shruti Sadolikar S. P. Balasubrahmanyam Sudha Raghunathan Asha Bhosle Hariharan Kavita Subramaniam P. Unni Krishnan Nithyasree Mahadevan Kaushiki Chakrabarty Instrumentalists Bansuri: Hariprasad Chaurasia Sarod: Amjad Ali Khan, Amaan Ali Khan, Ayaan Ali Khan Santoor: Shivkumar Sharma, Rahul Sharma Ghattam: Vikku Vinayakram, Uma Shankar Mohan Veena: Vishwa Mohan Bhatt Saxophone: Kadri Gopalnath Chitraveena: N. Ravikiran Veena: E. Gayathri Sarangi: Sultan Khan Sitar: Kartick Kumar, Niladri Kumar Violin: Kumaresh, Ganesh Orchestra Conductor: K. Srinivas Murthy Cello: Ramsekar, R K Vijayandran, Bidyur Khayal Tympany: Kumar, Karthikeyan Violin: M Kalyanasundaram, Jerry Fernandes, Cyril Fernandes, R Joseph, K Murali, B J Chandru, B Balu, Murali, Dinakar, Rex Isaac, Debu Ashish, PJ Sebastian, P S Ramachandran Mridangam: D A Srinivas Harp: R Visweswaran The Making Bharat Bala and Kanika had been working together on various projects such as Vande Mataram (1996, 1998) and Desh Ka Salaam (1999) when they realised that there was not a single popular rendering of the Indian National Anthem. They thus decided to re-create the National Anthem in a year 2000 version, something that should be 'inspiring for young people