How to write lyrics for bollywood movies

Vani at white phosphorous had written an interesting post on Hindi songs with wacky lyrics. That Post lists some famous Bollywood songs which never deserve to be hits, but still did.

This reminded me of my graduation days where we used to write Hindi “movie” songs, just like those, or better. I couldn’t help but writing about our contribution.

Some tips here:

  • 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:

“ Ladkeeeee haaaan shehar ki ladkeeeeeeeeeee,

ankh churake bole hay haawaryu haay haawaryu haay haawaryu

ankh milake bole haw do you do haw do you do haw do you do

I believe, 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 hein…)
Planet Bollywood
Planet Bollywood
  • 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 even had our dance steps also worked out for this.

  • Remember every thing can be music. Koyal ki koo koo main , bachche ki susu main, sangeet hi sangeet hai.
  • 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

334 thoughts on “How to write lyrics for bollywood movies

  1. sir! I have many songs written by me . It is my hobby to write songs. So please suggest me to deliver songs to bollywood. I write songs to see something special , to see nature , to see girls and boys involved in love and so on…

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  2. sir! I have many songs written by me . It is my hobby to write songs. So please suggest me to deliver songs to bollywood. I write songs to see something special , to see nature , to see girls and boys involved in love and so on…
    plz reply . my email id is ishwarchoudhary100@gmail.com

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  3. Hello, my name is Manish
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  4. Hello, my name is
    Manish
    Sharma from
    Rajasthan. 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 if you
    want to
    see my songs plz
    contact
    me just give me one
    chance for proove
    myself i
    will hard work but
    for it i
    need a chance
    about me
    manishsharma536
    gmail.com
    Facebook/
    manishsharma536
    Twitter/
    manishsharma536
    09461852526

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  5. I am lakhan from sutanpur u. p. Iwrites songs hindi@ bhojpuri I have writes songs more than 150 songs I waiting for best opportunity make carrier in bollywod industry my mo. No.-9569390938

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  6. hi my name is huma shahper n m frm patna,bihar….itzz my dream to enter bollywood as a song writer n singer…..bt i have no idea about writing song lyrics will u plzz help me to make my dream come true??????????…!!!!…….plzz suggest me sum gud points f writing song lyrics……!!!!!!

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  7. Hiiii, i am Manpreet Singh from HBM Entertainments,i have read all posts here.We are based in Los Angeles,and we have made a good place in local NRI movies.We wants to expand our horizons in Bollywood now.We wants to make our first debut through albums,& we are searching for a good Hindi Lyrics writer/composer.If you are interested too,reply soon with some good hindi lyrics (romantic/sad song).We will look forward to hear from you.
    Regards,
    Manpreet Singh

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