Sidharth Singh is a writer, filmmaker and live sports producer based in Mumbai. He is also the author of the novel Fighter Cock.
<p>If you've been wondering whether India will ever produce a world-class rock band,</p><p>think no further. The Flow is here.'</p><p>Nirvana's life is a mess--he is a jilted lover, a bored addict and a disillusioned journalist.</p><p>Nothing, it seems, can get him out of his funk.</p><p>Until one afternoon, when he discovers a pile of back issues of India's premier youth</p><p>magazine from the 1970s, Junior Standard. An article on a famed rock contest of the</p><p>time catches his eye. It mentions a band called The Flow and their frontman, Max</p><p>Bulandi, hailed as India's answer to Jim Morrison. Nirvana is consumed by the article</p><p>and when a chance meeting with an old Bombay rocker whets his appetite further, he</p><p>embarks on a search for the mysterious Max Bulandi and the early pioneers of the</p><p>Indian rock music scene. As he traces the lost history of The Flow across Bombay,</p><p>Calcutta, Shillong and Benares, it opens up to him a world of riffs and beats that</p><p>transforms his life quite completely.</p><p>Exhilarating and utterly original, The Extraordinary Life of Max Bulandi is at once a</p><p>coming-of-age story with a twist and a much-awaited hat-tip to the legends of Indian</p><p>rock music.</p>
