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. love karde nee asi tenu tut ke
    dil rakhe nee kundi nal kut ke (parts of Songs)

    sensex se teri style pal-2 rate badalti hai
    mac dowell akhano ki teri bin piye chad jati hain

    na raat main he nasa na tazagi sawarane main
    joo nasa hain jane man tere haste huyan charahe main

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    known languge hindi,english ,punjabi urdu, rajasthani,gujrati, haryanavi,bhojpuri

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  2. 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.

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  3. 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

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  4. 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

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  5. Hi Sir
    I m shah faisal from kashmir,
    my aim is singer as well as a good lyricst,
    sir i wrote at least 200 songs,
    they r so beautiful and so smooth,i dont know about all the writting lyrics but i do hard work for it,when ever i m lonely in my room i wrote a song,,,,
    at least in 2010 i wrote a song the song is

    tera janooooo………………..tera janoo
    tera sakonnnnnnnnnnn……………..tera sakoon
    hai mera leyaaaaaa……………….mera leya…. satheya

    tere zindageeeeeeeee…………….tere zindageee
    tere ashqiiiiiiiiiiii……………tere ashqii
    hai mera leyaaaaaaa………………mera leya satheya
    it is a big song,,,,,,
    when a singer sung tera janoooooo,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,in back ground another sung tera janoooo with low voice,,,,,,,,ok bye plz and plzzz replay me,
    my another id is zeyashah@yahoo.in,i m also in orkut find zeya.faisal@gmail.com,..ok bye

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  6. dear sir,
    i write lyrics of hindi songs.
    and i personally think that some of songs has good lyrics.
    so can u plz tell me that how can i launch a music album.
    plz reply me my e-mail id is sumeet.gaur@gmail.com
    my lyrics are,
    1) tujhe pa na saka main,
    tujhse ab main kya kahun
    tu tamanna thi meri
    tu thi meri aarju.
    2) tere bin…..
    zindagi…SSSS
    zindagi…….SSS
    tere bin…..
    tere bin zindagi…
    jaan hai par dil nahin…SSSSS

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