PM Rajiv Gandhi approached his friend Suresh Mullick of the leading ad agency Ogilvy and Mather to make a film on the topic. It was then passed to Kailash Surendranath to direct the film.... He said, 'We wanted to make a film on the concept of Chariots of Fire. We wanted to catch the spirit of the Olympics. Louiz Banks made that rousing kind of music that lent to it a feel of a military organ. It set up a new trend of music.'
