bamboo there cant be an end to this art as its a gods creation so far as bamboo is concerned im still getting my bamboo flute for free and i am not a bamboo seller so i am not bothered smiles they are using bamboo for various other purposes making houses compound walls etc of late the quality of bamboo required by us has become difficult to findyou started playing flute as it came cheap and you didnt have money to buy other costly instruments given a choice what would youve preferred over the flute i used to sing earlier but unfortunately my voice was not very sweet so i was advised to try out some other aspect of music but i wanted to stick to sound only as sound is wonderful it scores over any instrument that is produced in factories its about the difference between factory music and lord krishnas music playing flute is the closest to singing as one needs to exercise vocal chords here as well and it costs nothing so it became my obvious choicethe legend goes that you switched from righthanded playing to lefthanded playing as it was a precondition put by annapurna devi to teach you music if you value your teachers more than gods you will but naturally obey them she was no less than god to me so i happily did that she wanted me to start from the scratch by unlearning whatever i had learnt earlier and thats why i was asked to bring in this changedo you see this level of commitment and veneration in todays disciples to carry forward the gurushishya parampara they are doing it wonderfully im pretty satisfied as i see my disciples putting in everything im sure if you find you can get committed disciples in nagpur as wellchandani darr lamhe silsila faasle vijay most of the bollywood films for which you created music along with pt shiv kumar sharma were made by yash chopra was it by design though we were very close it was not the camaraderie with yash chopra but the quality of work he offered which made us work with him when he offered kala pani to me i refused and asked him to offer something more musical and meaningful to us he offered us the kind of work we were interested inafter sahibaan in 1993 you never composed music for any bollywood film bollywood music was never my profession it was more of a hobby so i always did my choice of films the music i liked if i am offered those kinds of musical films by likeminded people ill certainly make music for bollywood even now but im no bappi lahiri