India was in lockdown, following the COVID 19 outbreak. In the space of a few weeks before Independence Day, Google and Virtual Bharat rolled out their plan to create a ‘Jana Gana Mana’ video. It was a special, and a difficult task. Uniting millions of Indians in a single frame, when no one is allowed to leave their homes? Tough for the times, but not for a bunch of creative minds who found a way to accomplish this.
Videos were requested from all over the country – through friends, through individuals, through personal networks, through every means one had at their disposal. The result was an overwhelming number of videos that poured in from every corner of the country. Next: the videos were sewn together using artificial intelligence tools. As one of the first videos of its kind, Jana Gana Mana became the voice of thousands of Indians, singing their national anthem with gusto and pride.