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

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68 Responses to “How to write lyrics for bollywood movies”


  1. 1 Kayla February 9, 2007 at 9:05 pm

    oh my stars this is a fun post…very smart and reminds me of me and my friends the screaming monks a small group of 6 useing only our voices we croon a made up language consisting of wacky improvised sound including sreaming…we stand in a row on stange and oddly dont move at all while making constant rythems with our voices..its wacky …we begin to move back and fourth from sounding asian…african….native indian..east and so on …all great minds think alike..Ilove it

  2. 2 bachodi February 11, 2007 at 6:17 am

    kayla,
    Thanks you. there are some nice toons are there in your blog.
    One more thing we were good at , to distort lyrics as song is getting played. That was fun too… ever tried that ?

  3. 3 Veena February 11, 2007 at 5:39 pm

    Ha Ha.. Nice post, truely hillarious!
    Midnight Feb 14th nalli … whistle haakondu ladies hostel kaDe hogdrenu ?? Who knows some girl would be waiting to see her prince on white horses(some movie shahrukh & madhuri one!)….
    I am sure, this would be a general youthhood experience, try to sing in different tunes if not anything alteast… I knew some of my friends who wanted to become such lyricst & muscians really..

  4. 4 bachodi February 13, 2007 at 6:32 am

    Veena,
    Thanks for the comment. Yes we did sing high volume, but not near ladies hostel.
    We had a common opinion as every boys hostel “99% girls are cute, smart and beautiful, the rest study in our college “… ;-)

  5. 5 PT March 1, 2007 at 8:34 am

    hahhaah, had me in splits..

  6. 6 naked April 8, 2007 at 4:46 am

    9 su 10! Ottenerlo! Siete buoni!

  7. 7 bachodi April 8, 2007 at 5:37 am

    @ PT
    Always…

    Naked
    I could translate it as “9 on 10! To obtain it! You are good!” . So
    grazie
    and why do you have so unfortunate name ?

  8. 9 Tarang May 17, 2007 at 8:00 am

    Your lyrics seems to be meaningful to me.
    Let me produce a film, will certainly include that :)

  9. 10 sesso June 20, 2007 at 3:42 pm

    i’am really impressed!!

  10. 11 fakhar October 8, 2007 at 5:48 pm

    Hi i am a lyricis writer once i met mr luckyali and he gave me his mobile no.and make me sure that i will be the greatest lyrics writer of bollywood but unfortunately his mobile changed and i am searching him continiously plz help me and provide mobile no of mr luckyali.
    yours sincerely Fakhar…

  11. 12 Hindi Movie MP3 Songs Downloads, Free Online Hindi Film Music October 14, 2007 at 5:14 am

    A very good blog, I loved it. I have forwarded this blog to all of my friends. Please keep posting such a nice stuff.

  12. 13 sandip February 23, 2008 at 3:34 pm

    I write lyrics for hindi songs but I don’t know where to send them to be converted to songs.
    Please help me.
    Thankyou

  13. 14 Sunil kumar March 11, 2008 at 2:55 pm

    hi, i am sunil kumar i write hindi lyrics and script. i have wrote so many songs and scripts. But i don’t know what should i do. so Please guide me. and i want to do acting also.
    And i don’t have any friend in this field. so i want a faithful friend in this field. if somebody want to friendship with me so plese give me your mail i.d. becouse i alone altogather in this zone.
    Thank you.

  14. 15 Sunil kumar March 11, 2008 at 3:00 pm

    hi, i am sunil kumar i write hindi lyrics and script. i have wrote so many songs and scripts. But i don’t know what should i do. so Please guide me. and i want to do acting also.And a good singer also. i am fond of singing too much.
    so Please help me somebody.i have all quality for film industry. so please help me.

    Thank you.

  15. 16 amit May 27, 2008 at 10:37 am

    I THINK YOU NEED DOCTOR BECAUSE YOU DOING SO MANY THINGS .
    bUT NOT able to find single way to reach success.

  16. 17 DJ Redcap June 16, 2008 at 6:11 pm

    Sandip / Sunil,
    I am a music producer and in search of Hindi lyrics, I would be happy to help you both with getting your music out there. I produce music and DJ and right now am stuck for Hindi songs! Contact me on dee@redcaprecords.co.uk

  17. 18 Fakhar June 20, 2008 at 6:49 pm

    HI plz provide me the mobile no of mr. LUCKYALI.
    or of mr Tanveer Shah.

  18. 19 dinesh raj July 13, 2008 at 3:28 pm

    i want to write song in films.

  19. 20 dinesh raj July 13, 2008 at 3:29 pm

    m 9413959456

  20. 21 sami alam July 21, 2008 at 10:59 am

    i want to write lyrics
    please contact me and support me

  21. 22 Yatin July 23, 2008 at 8:00 pm

    Hello
    I am looking for a lyricist. I have my own desi rock band.I am in the process of composing rock stuff. Please reply if you are a good lyricist.

    Thanks
    Yatin

  22. 23 pradip kansar August 4, 2008 at 6:00 am

    My Husbud Shri Pradip Kansara is very much intresting to singing songs of Shri Mahamad Rafi Sahab. He has never tryed for parforming. he has atlest 300 songs of Rafi Saheb on his mouth. he alwayes sings it 2-3 times (2-4) hours. but now he want to come on plateform. what he has to does? pl give some guide lines and help them. does he write these songs(lyrics) which he know? how doed he gets support form you.

    Thanks

    Hina Kansara

  23. 24 dhaval September 1, 2008 at 6:49 am

    hey yatin i write hindi lyrics n i want to give way to my talent.
    so i would like to start with u.
    i wiil wait 4 ur reply.
    my id is vora.dhaval1@gmail.com.

  24. 25 dhaval September 1, 2008 at 7:07 am

    i m veru serious about my lyrics writinbv.
    dont take it like a joke.

  25. 26 dhaval September 1, 2008 at 7:08 am

    i m veru serious about my lyrics writing.
    dont take it like a joke.

  26. 27 Donny September 3, 2008 at 8:37 am

    Dear All,

    I write hindi songs as hobby and would love to use these songs for a bollywood movie or hindi pop album. Professional who are looking for new lyricist and would like to give me a chance, kindly email me at donnythomas@rediffmail.com

    Regards,
    Donny

  27. 28 Utkarsh September 21, 2008 at 12:40 pm

    Dear all..

    I have the hobby of writting song lyrics in hindi..One of my hindi college song has achieved quite a good applause at few events.. I wish to compose it with music.I also have few songs already written.I have also received several prizes at reputed levels for my poetry.So if anyone looking for a lyricists and would like to give me a chanace mail me on utkarsh_usd@yahoo.co.in
    Also I would like to do friendship with similar interested persons.Can probably form a small group and compose together..

  28. 30 manny September 30, 2008 at 9:18 am

    hello im manny i can help u how write the song so you can call me or u can give me your number my number is 001 510 745 2400 im from california

  29. 31 megha chaturvedi October 2, 2008 at 5:42 am

    hi people

    i love to write both hindi and english songs , so any professional in search of a lyricist can contact me at meghachaturvedi@yahoo.com

  30. 32 ajay October 4, 2008 at 3:35 am

    Can any body send some good lycrics in my email id and ur contact number plz

  31. 33 Tauseef October 13, 2008 at 10:19 am

    A good blog filled with practical and routinely used lines.

    For those who are looking for a new hindi lyricist can view my site. http://www.tunedlyrics.com where my hindi song album and lyrics blog I placed. Anyone, interested may contact me at tkhan226@gmail.com

  32. 34 sudeep phalke,gwalior November 16, 2008 at 10:55 pm

    hello sir ,
    i m a 25 yr old boy frm gwalior(m.p.).i have a great passion for writting.i have been writting since past 12 yrs.i have written so many poems, and songs,some ghazals,shayaries.also some stories and articles.now i want to show my talent to the people,by becoming a bollywood lyricist,sir i desperately searching for a way to get in bolywood as a lyricist,but still i m in search.please show me the way of bollywood,so that i can serve the indian cinema by providing my lyrics.sir please help me ,i realy want to become a great lyricist in bollywood.
    please please reply me and give me your precious suggestions.my email id is—
    sudeepphalke_83@yahoo.in

  33. 35 abhik gupta December 1, 2008 at 8:10 am

    hi i m very passionate about writing my lyrics and didalougues for bollywood

  34. 38 sanjay singh December 14, 2008 at 3:16 pm

    Dear Sir

    I am writer for Hindi , Bhojpuri

    in Daily papers , bhojpuri websites

    i want any body can give me a chance

    for my poems , songs , gazals.

    Regards

    Sanjay singh

  35. 39 Ajit December 15, 2008 at 7:37 am

    hi friends
    i am a somg writer n want 2 write songs 4 hindi movies.so is there is anybody who will give me this oppurtunity then i can show my talent.
    waiting 4 ur response..

  36. 40 sufian December 23, 2008 at 8:25 am

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  37. 41 gm vegad December 30, 2008 at 11:17 am

    hi,
    i am imprresed so much by going through this article.
    i have spontanious talent to creat instant song on given filmy siotuation.100’s of songs are ready for free demo.pl contact on my mobile no 09428630728 or e mail-parampagal_2008@yahoo.co.in

  38. 42 gm vegad January 6, 2009 at 9:28 am

    hi
    i have a ready stock of 100’s of hindi songs, nazms,kawwalis,ghazals,powerful dialogues.pl try my caliber.
    contact mo 09428630728 e-mail- parampagal_2008@yahoo.co.in

  39. 43 Paras January 14, 2009 at 6:13 am

    If any one is looking for lyrics for his/her music,
    based on any theme.. Please contact at following mail id.
    parasgeet@gmail.com

  40. 44 RAJAN January 20, 2009 at 1:31 pm

    hi friends
    i am a somg writer n want 2 write songs 4 hindi movies.so is there is anybody who will give me this oppurtunity . i can show my talent.
    i have a ready stock of 100’s of hindi songs, nazms,kawwalis,ghazals,powerful dialogues.pl try my caliber.
    contact mo 9202201103 Please contact at following mail id.
    srajansssright@yahoo.com =THANKS= RAJAN

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  45. 49 dino February 20, 2009 at 5:31 pm

    pls sir i want some lyrics for passion songs and christian songs.i rilly love writing songs.pls can you pls send it 2 my e_mail box.edokadin@yahoo.com.thnks sir and God bless u and god will give more grace and longlife.

  46. 50 rizwa February 28, 2009 at 8:32 pm

    ha ha ha yaro sab dua karo ki koi yaha fanse nahi coz all of you very nuts. and i know nobody is gonna get anything from here but still sending reply. i cant believe this but we r indians

    jay ho jay ho jay ho

  47. 51 nirbhay March 3, 2009 at 2:52 pm

    DearSir,
    With reference to your website, I would like to introduce my self as Nirbhay from Bhopal, further I would like to tell you that I have created many ideas, scripts and lyrics based on the recent pattern of the films. The ideas /scripts consist of large as well as small budgets.
    However due to lack of strong financial support, I am unable to implement them.
    Sir, I would be grately appreciate you, if you could provide me a chance to prove myself under your esteemed banner.
    Hoping for your kind and favorable consideration please
    Thanking You SirYours emailid sengar_nirbhay@yahoo.com

  48. 52 baljeetsingh March 23, 2009 at 12:32 pm

    hi,myself baljeet singh from hissar,i have written and composed many songs,ineed a director who recognise my talent.

  49. 53 Anonymous July 2, 2009 at 2:40 pm

    Hi,
    I m mr.Anil sharma i m lyrics i have hindi and devotional songs which has wrote by me, i m searching 4 the man who give me chance 2 write a songs 4 any situation and any movement,i will write 4 u and i can, plz give me chance 4 write,i can give u also sample if u want and if u want to give me chance then, plz call me my contact no..is 09827988238,09770173355

  50. 54 m. shahil July 8, 2009 at 11:54 am

    hi
    This is shahil. first of all i would say thanks to provide the website.actially i have writen 14 songs and also composed music as well as 25 stories writen by me.All stories are diffrent for each other. Befor my skill i have confidance to do special and i can write & compose all types of story,songs. i am waiting for reply

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  51. 55 Mahon July 12, 2009 at 10:36 am

    Wow @ the comments on this post.

  52. 56 chandan kumar July 16, 2009 at 9:51 am

    i wanna write songs lyric …soplz help me in this fiel d .

  53. 57 Dharm bairwa July 19, 2009 at 1:24 pm

    hi
    i am dharm i am a lyrics writer and script writer [hindi,rajsthani] so please give me some tips about writing and give me one chance in writing

  54. 59 Anonymous October 25, 2009 at 9:22 am

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  55. 60 Arun Sinha October 30, 2009 at 4:29 pm

    Hi, This is Arun Sinha If any one is looking for lyrics for his music,based on any theme.. Please contact me at following mail id.
    arun_sinha75@rediffmail.com

  56. 61 Sunita October 31, 2009 at 8:33 am

    Sir,i have created twenty sensible hindi lyrics on different topicks such as Romantic,Comedi,Petriotic,Sad etc.I am in search of some one who would pay for my lyrics.The lyrics are really too good.If you contact on my number 9326372917.I will read and show you one of them.Or you can mail on atulk@engineer.com.

  57. 62 bhavesh November 17, 2009 at 11:29 pm

    hello everyone, I am a musician and looking for lyrics in hindi for bollywood. can anyone help and work with me to produce the album?

    please contact me @ bthaker1@yahoo.com or use yahoo mesenger to msg me…

    thanks,
    bhavesh

  58. 63 ilu sharma December 3, 2009 at 5:54 pm

    agar aap kuch achcha likna chahate ho to vo gedget jisse aap music sunte ho use apne pilo k pass rakh kar soe .u will got brannew idias.ilu

  59. 64 Santhosh Ananthapura December 4, 2009 at 9:57 am

    good to see the spirit. but how do u write….? try, http://www.quillpad.in

    its an intuitive way of typing, just write the way you speak.


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