India’s musical genious A.R. Rahman is likely to compose a part of the track for an international film dedicated to world’s famous composer - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

The project is the brainchild of Salzburg-based Austrian music composer and violinmaker Winrich Sturies. The film has been in the works for over six months and it will coincide with the 250th birth anniversary of Mozart (born Salzburg - Jan 1756).

“It will roll very soon,” says Sturies. “The release of the film is planned for mid 2006.” The script is ready and talks are going on with Rahman. The film, scripted by Sturies himself, is an extension of that celebration of the work of one of the finest music composers the world has ever known.

The Indian partner in the film venture, Sanjay Kaushik of the Paramount group of companies said “The film will be a full-fledged international production that will have substantial Indian participation. The link between the West and India will be organic and natural, not forced as is usually the case with such film projects.”

Sturies reveled “One of the key characters in the proposed film is an Indian reveals. The storyline is set in two eras - Mozart’s own and that of a fictional 17-year-old new millennium boy, Nicholas. The two men meet and play together. A key subplot in the film has Nicholas falling in love with an Indian girl and travelling to this part of the world.”

Sturies, who attended the 36th International Film Festival in Goa for a few days, is an admirer of India’s approach to music. “I cannot express in words how excited I am with the creative energy that I see here,” he says.