Sudarsan Pattnaik from Orissa Mile Sur Mera Tumhara song

Bhubaneswar: After a long time “Mile Sur Mera Tumhara” gets a new Avtar. Internally renowned Sand Artist Sudarsan Pattnaik from Orissa also in this Iconic song. After more than two decades, the iconic song has been revived as ‘Phir Mile Sur’. The Phir Mile Sur was released on Monday the 25th of Jan by none other than the Big B Amitabh Bachchan.

In this song Pattnaik represented Orissa through his sand sculpture. It is a great honour for me as being a part of “Phir mile sur mera tumhara”. His sculpture was unity in diversity. He used 10 tones of sand and took 8 hours to complete this sculpture.

The new song features musicians like Shankar – Ehsaan -Loy, Shaan, Shreya Ghoshal, Mika, Bhojpuri singer Kalpana, among many other personalities from sports, arts, entertainment and music. The song is picturised beautifully and brings together several celebrities from varied fields including Abhishek, Aishwarya Bachchan, Deepika Padukone, Ranbir Kapoor, Tablist Zakir Hussain, Malayalam actor Mamooty, sportspersons like Bindra and Saina Nehwal to name a few.

The video has been directed by Kailash Surendranath, the original director of the 1988 version of Mile Sur Mera Tumhara.

India’s first World champion sand artist Sudarsan Pattnaik so far participated in more than 39 International championships and festivals.