Farah Khan convinced a veteran music director Pyarelal to come off his self-imposed exile from the current film music scene to compose a song for Shah Rukh Khans Om Shanti Om. The song was created in nine shifts spread over three days. And in LP style the songs recording happened with a 150-plus orchestra, a rarity in todays age of digitally-arranged music making. 40-45 different drums ranging from tabla and dhol to duff, 40 plus violins and 22 woodwinds amongst other instruments were used for the song