 The song was selected as national anthem by Subhas Chandra Bose while he was in Germany.On the occasion of the founding meeting of the German-Indian Society on September 11, 1942 in the Hotel Atlantic in Hamburg, Jana Gana Mana was played for the first time by the Hamburg Radio Symphony Orchestra as the national anthem of an independent India.Before it officially became the national anthem of India in 1950, "Jana Gana Mana" was heard in the 1945 film "Hamrahi".