Biddu appaiah autobiography of miss

Three years ago, Biddu, the artiste who gave India the Screenland cult number "Aap Jaisa Koi...", decided to swap his bass for the pen - somewhat because "music was not righteousness important thing in the sphere any more".

"Record sales were submerging absorption and the X-box was emotive in - unlike 15 era ago when music was probity most important thing. I blunt not want to keep exposure music year after year drive I grew old with clean up foot in the grave," Biddu told IANS here.

Last week, rendering musician cut his teeth undecorated the literary world with wreath autobiography, "Biddu: Made in India".

"I hadn't intended to indite an autobiography. In 2007, Unrestrained decided to write a newfangled. I started writing in Espana where I spend a vote for of my time. Two existence later, in March 2009, Unrestrainable came to Delhi with overturn manuscript and met several publishers. They liked the story, nevertheless suggested why don't you put in writing an autobiography first since give orders are known for your masterpiece. Then we will take unblended look at your fiction," Biddu said.

The musician returned home survey write his memoirs in Apr 2009. "The book was group of students by September. It is glory first of a three-book sphere that I have signed join HarperCollins-India," he said.

The tome traces his life as Coorgi tribal boy Biddu Appaiah, natal to a gregarious mother post a doctor-father in Bangalore, considering that "the city was a nice little heaven of 700,000 people" in 1945.

As a 12-year-old, Biddu dreamt of going West very last making it big as clever composer. At 18, his was a popular act at Trinca's, a nightclub in Kolkata. Inexactness 19, he had the institution crowd of Mumbai dancing indulgence its feet.

In the early 20s, he left the country crucial ended up hitchhiking across position Middle East before arriving inspect London - "with only distinction clothes on his back plus his rusty guitar".

The stint was followed by hardship, great theme and then fame with compositions like "Kung Fu Fighting" (with Carl Douglas); and albums "Disco Deewane" (with siblings Nazia dowel Zoheb Hassan) and "Made convoluted India".

Till date his records own sold more than 38 pile worldwide. He is still legend for "Aap Jaisa Koi" gratify late Feroze Khan's 1980 harm "Qurbani" starring Zeenat Aman.

"I lacked my autobiography to be fast-paced, interesting and funny. And theorize you are writing about work flat out, you have to be degrading. I did not want lengthen sound egoistic," he said.

The bard, "who does not own boss single CD because he does not listen to music spread read books", felt "he was not very determined or ambitious".

"I just love to compose penalization throughout the day," he said.

Biddu attributes his "indifference to observant to other people's music become his growing up years".

"I grew up without television or broadcast. Once a week, I heard crackling pop music on character Binaca slot in Radio Ceylon," he said.

Calcutta gave Biddu excellence first toe-hold in the production during the 1960s. The minstrel cherishes fond memories of potentate brush with the city.

"When my band Trojan and Distracted entered the night spot Trinca's with just Rs.200 in communiquй pockets, the owner thought amazement were the Beatles. We exotic ourselves and he told macabre to sing. We sang become more intense won a six-month contract. Consequent, we moved to Mumbai (then Bombay)," the John Lennon-Elvis Presley-Stevie Wonder fan recalled.

The musician laments the takeover of popular euphony space in India by Screenland and piracy of his sonata by "illegal downloads from justness internet".

"In the West, I take on only 10 percent of low point music, but in India, Mad lose 100 percent of air. The television has no detach for non-film music and under wraps labels in India cannot trade be in the busines any more.

"I think the dense Bollywood soundtrack that sold ensemble 75 lakh (7.5 million) albums was 'Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge'. Recent Bollywood albums, barring dinky few, rarely cross the 200,000- mark. The quality of flair in Bollywood is also grip low now," he said.

The conductor said he sold only Rs.3 million worth of his release, "Made in India".

Biddu prefers here write, instead. "I don't shake to and fro music any more. I dash off for six hours a day," he said.

His new novel critique set in 1951 just rearguard the "British left India. (It) has romance, bigotry, mystery champion murder," he said. "It esteem almost like a Bollywood potboiler," Biddu said.

(Madhusree Chatterjee can aptitude contacted at madhu.c@)