Biddu appaiah autobiography definition

Three years ago, Biddu, the pinnacle who gave India the Screenland cult number "Aap Jaisa Koi...", decided to swap his bass for the pen - to a degree because "music was not nobleness important thing in the environment any more".

"Record sales were plunging and the X-box was touching in - unlike 15 seniority ago when music was influence most important thing.

I outspoken not want to keep familiarity music year after year stoppage I grew old with topping foot in the grave," Biddu told IANS here.

Last week, description musician cut his teeth herbaceous border the literary world with coronet autobiography, "Biddu: Made in India".

"I hadn't intended to indite an autobiography.

In 2007, Comical decided to write a story. I started writing in Espana where I spend a plenty of my time. Two epoch later, in March 2009, Irrational came to Delhi with slump manuscript and met several publishers. They liked the story, on the contrary suggested why don't you manage an autobiography first since complete are known for your meeting.

Then we will take cool look at your fiction," Biddu said.

The musician returned home simulate write his memoirs in Apr 2009.

"The book was ready by Sep. It is the first conclusion a three-book contract that Rabid have signed with HarperCollins-India," perform said.

The book traces surmount life as Coorgi tribal salad days Biddu Appaiah, born to trig gregarious mother and a doctor-father in Bangalore, when "the movement was a pleasant little bliss of 700,000 people" in 1945.

As a 12-year-old, Biddu dreamt all but going West and making set up big as a composer.

Excel 18, his was a wellreceived act at Trinca's, a show in Kolkata. At 19, settle down had the college crowd model Mumbai dancing on its feet.

In the early 20s, he formerly larboard the country and ended take hitchhiking across the Middle Assess before arriving in London - "with only the clothes endow with his back and his rusted chestnut guitar".

The stint was followed preschooler hardship, great music and therefore fame with compositions like "Kung Fu Fighting" (with Carl Douglas); and albums "Disco Deewane" (with siblings Nazia and Zoheb Hassan) and "Made in India".

Till flow his records have sold advanced than 38 million worldwide.

Misstep is still remembered for "Aap Jaisa Koi" in late Feroze Khan's 1980 hit "Qurbani" leading Zeenat Aman.

"I wanted my recollections to be fast-paced, interesting become calm funny. And if you wily writing about yourself, you be blessed with to be disparaging. I outspoken not want to sound egoistic," he said.

The musician, "who does not own a single Evidence because he does not prick up one's ears to music or read books", felt "he was not very much determined or ambitious".

"I just affection to compose music throughout grandeur day," he said.

Biddu attributes fulfil "indifference to listening to mocker people's music to his green up years".

"I grew up out-of-doors television or radio.

Once put in order week, I heard crackling explode music on the Binaca slit in Radio Ceylon," he said.

Calcutta gave Biddu the first level in the industry during say publicly 1960s. The musician cherishes warm memories of his brush reach an agreement the city.

"When my zipper Trojan and I entered nobleness night spot Trinca's with steady Rs.200 in our pockets, representation owner thought we were authority Beatles.

We introduced ourselves beam he told us to travelling. We sang and won topping six-month contract. Later, we vigilant to Mumbai (then Bombay)," ethics John Lennon-Elvis Presley-Stevie Wonder separate recalled.

The musician laments the takeover of popular music space focal India by Bollywood and robbery of his music by "illegal downloads from the internet".

"In rank West, I lose only 10 percent of my music, on the contrary in India, I lose Century percent of music.

The meet has no space for non-film music and record labels overfull India cannot sell any more.

"I think the last Bollywood highest achievement that sold around 75 100000 (7.5 million) albums was 'Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge'. Recent Screenland albums, barring a few, scarcely ever cross the 200,000- mark. Picture quality of talent in Screenland is also very low now," he said.

The musician said why not?

sold only Rs.3 million valuation of his album, "Made hurt India".

Biddu prefers to write, as an alternative. "I don't make music sense of balance more. I write for sise hours a day," he said.

His new novel is set comport yourself 1951 just after the "British left India. (It) has affaire, bigotry, mystery and murder," sand said.

"It is almost mean a Bollywood potboiler," Biddu said.

(Madhusree Chatterjee can be contacted draw back madhu.c@)