Vishal Bhardwaj on winning the National Award for Best Music Direction: The song was a catharsis for Gulzar and me, which we expressed through Sukhwinder’s voice

Indian filmmaker, music composer, and writer Vishal Bhardwaj has been honoured wih the National Award for Best Music Direction in the Non-Feature Film category for his song ‘Marenge Toh Vahin Jaa Kar’.

ETimes reached out to congratulate Vishal, where he shared, “I’m so happy to get an award for the film which represents and acknowledges the pain that the whole country and especially the migrant workers went through in the Covid-19 pandemic”.



He also revealed, “The song was actually a poem that Gulzar Saab wrote to express the suffocated feelings of not being able to do anything to help the migrants. It was a catharsis for both of us which we expressed through Sukhwinder’s voice in Vinod Kapri’s heart wrenching documentary 1232 KMs”.