All my songs have a story. When I first started out,
it was with hindi songs as I had no previous "working" knowledge of
Western songs, mostly because I was in Sainik School. Later, a point of
time came when I realised that writing in Hindi needs a much better
command of Hindi than I had at that time, so it was imperative that I
learn the language first. Hence I started writing English songs
starting with "Shy Away", sometime in 1997 perhaps. Later I liked the
sounds I was getting so I became bolder, the first significant song I made
that too - at that time I never knew that the song would have such a resounding
success - "Younger than the spring time". I had been reading the Readers Digest where
it was given that Oscar Hammerland II, who had written songs for movies like
"The sound of Music", had once recieved an Oscar for his song "Younger than the springtime",
which was an exciting sentence for me. I thought, here is a song I've never heard
which has such a beautiful beginning line, I'll complete it...And I made the song.
After a long time, when Harihar was playing an interesting background in his
synthesiser, I found that it suited this song of mine & hence the beautiful background
score was made.
Later I made songs like "Where have you gone ?", inspired by the book "Where love has
gone" by Sydney Sheldon. It was a golden period for me, I read "The singing kid", and composed
my first western from a song written by the Author of that book, which became "Ol' kentucky home".
Then was my maturing as a composer, my first song which was completely written by Kiran -
It was called "You were all I had", got a lot of critical acclaim from my home. Then there
were many songs "Angels", Blue Lagoon, which I composed getting
inspired from the Movie in the same name. Then I met Annie, and we made created a mind-blowing
background score for "Where have you gone ?", which I hope will someday be made into a James Bond
theme, with Sean Connery playing the retired 007, who finds himself in trouble again, from the SMERSH in
a remote edwardian village somewhere in England. "Almost till dawn" was composed by me at night,
around 3:00 a.m, when I was brooding over Kiran. I made an song adaptation of "Old Tige", the
song by Jim Reeves, which had pained me a lot, when I had heard it at first...
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