Music
Maurice Jarre scored the film and invited classical Indian musicians to participate in the recording sessions with a traditional European symphony orchestra, blending the musical styles for the melodies, based around the hymn "The Minstrel Boy" (although the lyrics are those of Reginald Heber's "The Son of God Goes Forth to War"), which figures in the plot.
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“For I have learned
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