How to write lyrics for bollywood movies
Vani at white phosphorous has written an interesting post on Hindi songs with wacky lyrics. Post listed some Hindi famous songs which dont deserve to be hits. Those songs never made any sense lyrically.
This reminded me my graduation days where we used to write Hindi “movie” songs. I couldnt help but writing about our contribution.
So having experience of writing bollywood movie lyrics, let me give you few tip how to write a super hit song.
- No experience needed for writing a song, compose background music for it. When we (me and another copyright holder sarkar) wrote some songs and sung it in the middle of the night (in hostels life starts at mid night) the whole hostel went crazy. I guess they were cheering us, most of them were geeks.
- Read news paper, blogs etc. pick a sentence first catches your eyes, write it down. Check Orkut scraps, mail regularly. That can make a great start up line
For example, there was a superhit song in movie “rakshak” Suneil Shetty and raveena:
“ Ladkleeeee haaaan shehar ki ladkeeeeeeeeeee,
aankh churake bole haay haawaryu haay haawaryu haay haawaryu
aank milake bole haaay do you do haaay do you do haaay do you do
Lyricist picked up it from orkut scraps.
- Remember general conversation with your friends, girlfriends etc. keep logging chat and instant messages also. There are some examples which went very super hit in Hindi industry (remember: accha to hum chalte hen…)
- When mention a movie song when I have my own. We framed it some seven eight years back. Though the song is not sold we still hold copyrights of it
Male voice: Maine tumko dekhaaa….
Female voice: kahan dekha..kahan dekha…
Male voice: Maine tumko janaaa….
Female voice: kyajanaa.. kya janaa…..
Male voice: shaadi karogi…
Female voice: na na…. na na… na na…
Both together and chorous: lallalallala…..
We had our dance steps also worked out for this.
- Remember every thing can be music. Koyal ki koo koo me , bachche ki susu me sangeet hi sangeet he.
- Think from other people perspective. Feel for poor, oppressed, refugees, animals, plants anything, and think what they think. For exmple : Main character is feeling bad about a stray dog.
paagal kutta meraa… tumse ye Bhonk rahaaaaaaa ..
abto tere bina bhonka jayenaaaaaaaaa…………..
- Finally rants. Write what you think when you are not actually thinking. Insert sounds and words, which no one has any idea. Include political , social cultural and historical events in between. Go crazy. One example:
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa meraaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa mera sundar sapna yaad aaya….main banke chidiyan ud gayiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa……. mera sundar sapna yaad aaya……………..dhinka chikir dhin dhinka chikir dhikta tana tana nana na
60 POAM AND SONGS HAVE BEEN CREATED BY ME WHICHEVER I HAD FELT.SONGS ARE IN HINDI. I HAVE NOT COPYRIGHT. I WANT WRITE SONG ON SITUATION OE SCRIPT BASIS WHICH WILL BE NEEDED IN FREF OF COST.I STAY IN MALAD EAST.MO NUMBER 9867954010, PLZ HELP ME.
SUSHEEL KUMAR MAURYA
January 3, 2012 at 3:22 pm
can u share ur lyrics with me so that i can compose it????my number is 8885237082..
Prabin Jha
April 1, 2012 at 6:19 pm
Yes ,I am marathi and Hindi song writer ,We also launchedd the marathi musical album.
My mail id is vijumechaniacl@rediffmail.com
Vijay (sahil)
May 22, 2012 at 11:27 am
Hi, I really liked your thoughts about how to think, how to pick up lines etc ……I have some words for you
tere aandaz ki kya taareef karoun
kudrat hein tumpe meherbaan
kuch kadam zara dheere se chalo
teri lachak ka maza lene do
tera chalke yon peeche dekhna
haaye !teri nazar ki kya taareef karoun
dil to ada pe vaar diya
hai bus bachi ye jaan………..
Sulekha Chandra
January 22, 2012 at 3:43 pm
I used to write lyrics.i want a stage where i can make my carrier as a lyricist.plz help me,guide me what i have to do.
Pawan s kumar
February 8, 2012 at 9:34 am
i want to be a lyricist. plz help me.9726163576 i have composed many song also are they true according to rules.
veer
February 28, 2012 at 2:55 pm
can u send sum of ur lyrics in my email id?
luvpk_atif@yahoo.com
Prabin Jha
May 22, 2012 at 2:18 pm
hey anyone can give me sum hindi lyrics??? i like to compose songs bt i dnt have lyrics…plz if u can!! my number is 8885237082
prabin
April 1, 2012 at 6:17 pm
@Prabin, contact me at panther_excellence@hotmail.com
Abbas
April 5, 2012 at 2:37 am
hay prabin….i have many lyrics created by myself…most of them r in hindi and a few in marathi…if u r intrested thn contact me at rahiekmusafir27@gmail.com ma phone no: +918088464724…..i m in search of a group that can compose and sing my songs….
a sample fr u…
yeh duniya mile bhi to kya, tere bin,
yeh sanse chale bhi to kya, tere bin,
suni suni si hai yeh zindagi sssss
roothi rothi si hai ab har khushi…..
tere bin…tere bin…tere bin…
here is another dedicated to my mom…
amber pe banke tara tu reh gayi maa,
meri nigahe dhunde tujhe yaha-waha,
tere mere bich me hai baadlo ka pehra,
dhunda maine tujhko jab kyu aaya savera……
Shailesh Nair
April 25, 2012 at 11:10 am
i will contact u aftr some days…
Prabin Jha
May 22, 2012 at 2:21 pm
I have more than 50 Hindi songs.LECTURER at MIT PUNE and composer of marathi musical album.
Vijay (sahil)
May 22, 2012 at 11:34 am
i have written numerous poems and songs.many of them have been published in newspapers and magazines ..if u wish i can share it..
shivendra
May 25, 2012 at 1:27 pm
i have some tunes . . .kya koi mujhe apna lyrics desakta hay . . .ph:8553664999
mukesh
May 2, 2012 at 12:30 pm
Cotact me at vijumechaniacl@rediffmail.com
Vijay (sahil)
May 22, 2012 at 11:35 am
please contact me for any types of song hindi my e-mail address is bobbysethi@rocketmail.com
bobby sethi
May 14, 2012 at 6:04 pm
I am hindi and rajasthani song writer and composer, i can write all situation based songs. i want succsess in this profession bcoz bollywood is my dream and songwriting is my profession.
about me
manishsharma536@gmail.com
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Twitter/manishsharma536
09461852526
Manish Sharma
May 19, 2012 at 2:10 pm