Amitabh Bachchan invited to record his father's poetic works

Amitabh Bachchan has been approached to record his father's poetic works.

The Times of India reports that a company owning the rights to the original works of Harivansh Rai Bachchan have expressed an interest in recording the poetry with Amitabh.

The 69-year-old wrote on his blog: "I am approached by a music company of repute. They wish for me to record for them my father's works all over again. They have the rights to one that we did, my father and me, many years ago - 'Bachchan recites Bachchan'.

"Now they wish me to sing some of his verse in my voice! They present me with some gifts. And I am amazed what it is. It is the old style record vinyl LP player, along with some LPs of my films. They tell me that this is what is being made popular by the generation next," he added.

Harivansh Rai Bachchan died in 2003 at the age of 95, but is still remembered for poems such as Madhushala and Agneepath.

Amitabh has read his father's poems in New York and Paris, and expressed a desire to open a museum to house Harivansh Rai's works.