India, May 12 -- During your session with Sathya Saran, author of your biography, Breath of Gold, you mentioned that your father wanted you to become a wrestler. That seems difficult to imagine. Why did he want that for you?

A painter wants his son to be a painter and a circus artist wants his son to be a circus artist. So, like every other father, my father too wanted me to follow in his footsteps. He was a pehelwan and he wanted me to be one. But while growing up in Allahabad, I was not interested in exercising in the akhada. I tried doing that to make him happy and I told myself that it would be good for my health too but I did not like wrestling. When you start liking music, and you become fully immersed in that, you do not like anyt...