Indeed, Shankar was the banda

The second Shankar Mahadevan song that was on the soundtrack of Sam Bahadur and began with B was Banda.

It was one of the two solos – and the only male solo – in the film.

Shankar’s involvement in the song was not restricted to lending his voice to it.

No prizes for guessing that he also composed it with Ehsaan Noorani and Loy Mendonsa.

The person who wrote the song was the one and only Gulzar.

As far as the duration of the song was concerned, it was just a second short of the four-minute mark.