I am an impromptu singer: Amitabh Bachchan

In the song "Kyun Re" from Bachchan's upcoming 'Te3n', one gets to see his moments with the missing granddaughter, his equally suffering wife, his interactions with Vidya Balan, who plays a cop and Nawazuddin Siddiqui, who plays a priest in the film.

"It's always very frightening for me to sing a song because I am not a singer and especially when you have people like Clinton Cerejo (music director) sitting six inches away from you. Clinton did not want (the song) to be sung wholeheartedly," Bachchan said referring to the mood of the song.

Interacting with reporters here at the promotional the event of Te3n, the 73-year-old actor revealed that he was shy of singing in public.

"I am very self-conscious, so I go to a studio which I am familiar with. Like I go to the late Aadesh Srivastav's studio. I go there and quietly sit with the recordist who knows me," he said.

For this song "Kyun Re" the actor recorded his part which was initially rejected by Clinton.     

"With the help of some friendly musicians, I do an impromptu singing, so I asked them to send the pro-tunes and everything for the recording. Then I recorded and sent it back to them and it was destroyed. They said it's rubbish and you have to do it again," he said in a lighter vein.

"(Director) Ribhu (Dasgupta) said he will send Clinton while recording. I told them don't send I will not be able to do anything. Eventually, I succumbed to this pressure and then Clinton came to the studio," he added.

Bachchan said he thought that the song was terrible. "But Clinton said don't worry...You think it's terrible but when I go and work on my machine, it's going to sound great. So what you heard is a machine version. It's his version not what I sang. I sang very 'besura'," Big B said.

He revealed that it was Dasgupta's idea to come up with the song.

"I felt it would be inappropriate for somebody of this nature to sing a song in the film. But after listening to tunes and the words that Amitabh (Bhattacharya) narrated me, I felt to do it. We went ahead and did it," Bachchan added.     

Reminiscing about the song he had sung in Mr Natwarlal", Bachchan said a lot of things have changed today as far as recording a song is concerned.