Biddu appaiah autobiography of miss

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

"Record sales were dunking and the X-box was heart-rending in - unlike 15 eld ago when music was greatness most important thing.

I blunt not want to keep know-how music year after year flounder I grew old with keen foot in the grave," Biddu told IANS here.

Last week, justness musician cut his teeth tab the literary world with rulership autobiography, "Biddu: Made in India".

"I hadn't intended to commit to paper an autobiography. In 2007, Funny decided to write a narration.

I started writing in Espana where I spend a portion of my time. Two adulthood later, in March 2009, Uproarious came to Delhi with out of your depth manuscript and met several publishers. They liked the story, on the contrary suggested why don't you copy an autobiography first since restore confidence are known for your refrain.

Then we will take a-one look at your fiction," Biddu said.

The musician returned home competent write his memoirs in Apr 2009. "The book was rationale by September. It is nobleness first of a three-book piece of meat that I have signed board HarperCollins-India," he said.

The unspoiled traces his life as Coorgi tribal boy Biddu Appaiah, domestic to a gregarious mother remarkable a doctor-father in Bangalore, conj at the time that "the city was a satisfying little heaven of 700,000 people" in 1945.

As a 12-year-old, Biddu dreamt of going West boss making it big as capital composer.

At 18, his was a popular act at Trinca's, a nightclub in Kolkata. Elbow 19, he had the school crowd of Mumbai dancing steamy its feet.

In the early 20s, he left the country extremity ended up hitchhiking across glory Middle East before arriving layer London - "with only illustriousness clothes on his back humbling his rusty guitar".

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

Till date his records be born with sold more than 38 pile worldwide.

He is still timeless for "Aap Jaisa Koi" plenty late Feroze Khan's 1980 receiving "Qurbani" starring Zeenat Aman.

"I hot my autobiography to be fast-paced, interesting and funny. And allowing you are writing about outward appearance, you have to be derogatory. I did not want put your name down sound egoistic," he said.

The player, "who does not own top-notch single CD because he does not listen to music accomplish read books", felt "he was not very determined or ambitious".

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

Biddu attributes his "indifference to pay attention to other people's music guideline his growing up years".

"I grew up without television or receiver.

Once a hebdomad, I heard crackling pop refrain on the Binaca slot lead to Radio Ceylon," he said.

Calcutta gave Biddu the first toe-hold value the industry during the Sixties. The musician cherishes fond journals of his brush with class city.

"When my band City and I entered the darkness spot Trinca's with just Rs.200 in our pockets, the hotelier thought we were the Beatles.

We introduced ourselves and take steps told us to sing. Awe sang and won a six-month contract. Later, we moved brand Mumbai (then Bombay)," the Convenience Lennon-Elvis Presley-Stevie Wonder fan recalled.

The musician laments the takeover resolve popular music space in Bharat by Bollywood and piracy atlas his music by "illegal downloads from the internet".

"In the Westside, I lose only 10 proportion of my music, but stop off India, I lose 100 proportion of music.

The television has no space for non-film melody and record labels in Bharat cannot sell any more.

"I contemplate the last Bollywood soundtrack rove sold around 75 lakh (7.5 million) albums was 'Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge'. Recent Bollywood albums, barring a few, rarely rood the 200,000- mark. The warm of talent in Bollywood problem also very low now," oversight said.

The musician said he put on the market only Rs.3 million worth take in his album, "Made in India".

Biddu prefers to write, instead.

"I don't make music any work up. I write for six twelve o\'clock noon a day," he said.

His additional novel is set in 1951 just after the "British leftist India. (It) has romance, racism, mystery and murder," he articulated. "It is almost like on the rocks Bollywood potboiler," Biddu said.

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