''Made in India'' is an
Indi-pop
Indian pop music, also known as Indi-pop, refers to pop music produced in India that is independent from filmi soundtracks for Indian cinema, such as the music of Bollywood, which tends to be more popular. Indian pop is closely linked to Bollywo ...
album by
Alisha Chinai
Alisha Chinai (born 18 March 1965) is an Indian pop singer known for her Indi-pop albums as well as Music of Bollywood, playback singing in Hindi cinema. She began her singing career with the album ''Jadoo'' in 1985, and by the 1990s she had bec ...
, with production by
Biddu
Biddu Appaiah (born 8 February 1944) is a British-Indian singer-songwriter, composer, and music producer who composed and produced many worldwide hit records during a career spanning five decades. Considered one of the pioneers of disco, Euro d ...
, released in 1995. It was the first album by an
Indian pop
Indian pop music, also known as Indi-pop, refers to pop music produced in India that is independent from filmi soundtracks for Indian cinema, such as the music of Bollywood, which tends to be more popular. Indian pop is closely linked to Bollywo ...
(Indipop) artist to be sold on a scale comparable to
Hindi film music albums,
with over fivemillion copies sold in India.
The album established Indipop as a discrete genre and its singer Chinai became the genre's main proponent.
Development
Biddu
Biddu Appaiah (born 8 February 1944) is a British-Indian singer-songwriter, composer, and music producer who composed and produced many worldwide hit records during a career spanning five decades. Considered one of the pioneers of disco, Euro d ...
originally wrote the song "Made in India" for the famous
Pakistani pop
Pakistani popular music or shortly Pakistani pop music refers to popular music forms in Pakistan. Pakistani pop is a mixture of traditional Pakistani classical music and western influences of jazz, rock and roll, hip hop and disco sung in vario ...
star
Nazia Hassan
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, who Biddu had previously worked with. However, Hassan refused to come out of retirement for the song, as she thought the lyrics may offend her fans in
Pakistan
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. After Hassan rejected the offer, Biddu then wrote the song for Alisha Chinai.
Reception
''Made in India'' went on to become one of the highest selling pop albums of its time and Chinai became a household name. The record sold over 5million copies in India,
and the album's title song was not only a hit in India but across the international market as well,
topping charts across Asia. Chinai thereafter became the central figure of the emergence of Indipop.
[ ''Made in India'' was the first ever Indian pop album to achieve commercial success on a par with Indian film music albums and it also marked a spectacular beginning to the era of Indian music videos.]
Controversy
During the release of ''Made in India'', Chinai had accused Anu Malik
Anwar Sardar "Anu" Malik (born 2 November 1960) is an Indian music composer, singer, music arranger and score composer. He is an Indian National Award and Filmfare Award winning musician, who primarily composes music for the Hindi film indus ...
of molesting her. Some claim it was a publicity stunt by the singer to promote her album. Thereafter, Malik and Chinai did not work for several years, only to reunite in 2003 with ''Ishq Vishk
''Ishq Vishk'' ( ''Love Shmove'') is a 2003 Indian Hindi-language coming-of-age romantic comedy film starring Shahid Kapoor in his debut film performance, Amrita Rao, Shenaz Treasurywala, Yash Tonk, Satish Shah and Vishal Malhotra.
It is about ...
''. Chinai had also accused Magnasound Records of cheating her of her royalties. The music company counter-sued her for defamation.[
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Track listing
# Made in India / मेड इन इंडिया
# Lover Girl / लवर गर्ल
# Dil / दिल
# Tu Kahaan / तू कहाँ
# Ek Baar Do Baar / एक बार दो बार
# Aajaa / आजा
# Mere Saath / मेरे साथ
# Oo La La / ऊ ला ला
# Dhadkan / धड़कन
# Made in India (Remix)
# De De / देदे
Awards
* Alisha Chinai
Alisha Chinai (born 18 March 1965) is an Indian pop singer known for her Indi-pop albums as well as Music of Bollywood, playback singing in Hindi cinema. She began her singing career with the album ''Jadoo'' in 1985, and by the 1990s she had bec ...
received the International Billboard Award and also won the Freddie Mercury Award for Artistic Excellence for the album ''Made in India''.
Other versions
In 2017, "Made in India" was recreated by Pawni Pandey
Pawni Pandey is an Indian singer who was a contestant on Sa Re Ga Ma Pa L'il Champs and advanced to fifth place with public votes. She made her debut in the singing reality show Indian Idol. Post the reality show, she has sung a diverse number ...
. In 2022, it was recreated by the Indian American hip hop artist Raja Kumari
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The title has a long history in South Asia and Southeast Asia, being attested f ...
with different lyrics.
References
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1995 albums
Albums produced by Biddu
Alisha Chinai albums
Magnasound Records albums
Hindi-language albums