Hoping for divine intervention

Holy visit

“I want to thank A R Rahman for taking me to Ajmer. It was my first visit and going with him made it even more amazing,” Shekhar has written on his blog after visiting the holy place.

Shekhar made the plan to visit Ajmer on the flight. “Rahman and I were working on the music of Paani and on way back to Mumbai, I found myself sitting next to him on the flight. I had just said bye to him. He was going to Ajmer and asked if I would come and, of course, I went. I saw that as a sign for the beginning of Paani,” he wrote.

Shekhar was, however, upset about missing the early morning qawaali there. "My only regret is that I was not there for the early morning qawaali," he wrote.

Also accompanying the duo to the shrine was sound technician Resul Pookutty, who also triumphed at the Oscars for his work in Slumdog Millionaire.