Sandese Aate Hai ( hi, संदेसे आते है, ) is a patriotic song from the 1997 movie ''

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'', directed by J. P. Dutta. It was written by

Javed Akhtar Javed Akhtar (born 17 January 1945) is an Indian poet, lyricist, screenwriter and political activist. Known for his work in Hindi cinema, he has won five National Film Awards, and received the Padma Shri in 1999 and the Padma Bhushan in 2 ...

, composed by

Anu Malik Anwar Sardar "Anu" Malik (born 2 November 1960) is an Indian music composer, singer, music arranger and score composer. He is an Indian National Award and Filmfare Award winning musician, who primarily composes music for the Hindi film in ...

and sung by

Roop Kumar Rathod Roop Kumar Rathod is an Indian music director and playback singer. He has performed a number of songs in Hindi, Gujarati, Marathi, Tamil, Telugu, Bengali, Oriya, Assamese, Nepali, Bhojpuri and Kannada films. Personal life Rathod is the sec ...

and

Sonu Nigam Sonu Nigam (born 30 July 1973) is an Indian singer, music director and actor. He has been described in the media as one of the most popular and successful playback singers of Hindi Cinema and Kannada Cinema. He has been honoured by the Gover ...

. The song describes the pain of Indian soldiers and was one of the reasons for the success of the film. For a "heart-touching" song which "became the nation's anthem", Akhtar won the

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and the Screen Award in 1997 and 1998 respectively. He also won the National Film Award for the movie. Nigam won the

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for the song along with the '' Aashirwad Award'' and '' Sansui Viewers' Choice Award''. Nigam was however disappointed with the fact that Rathod was not nominated for the awards, saying that Rathod also played an equal part in the song's success. Talking about the song's popularity, Nigam said,"I knew the song was popular, but I had no idea how big it was, and how big it was going to be in a few months." In an interview, Malik said that the song "rocked the world", and felt that he deserved the National Award for it. He said that he made the song for the soldiers "to sing in their bunkers", and it took seven and a half minutes for him to compose the song. During the screening of '' LOC Kargil'', Dutta told Malik that an Indian soldier joined the

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after hearing the song, and died in the war. The soldier's mother said to Dutta that she does not know whether she should love him or hate him, but thanked him for making ''LOC Kargil'', adding that he made his son "live again". The lyrics of this song are:

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{{Reflist 1997 songs Hindi film songs Indian patriotic songs Songs with lyrics by Javed Akhtar Sonu Nigam songs Songs with music by Anu Malik