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Hindi film lyricists

  • Music and lyrics: How Shailendra gift-wrapped cosmic truths through his songs

    Music and lyrics: How Shailendra gift-wrapped cosmic truths through his songs

    Ganesh Vancheeswaran
    · Sep 22, 2020 · 10:30 am
  • Gulzar: ‘Words should amaze or amuse, only then will listeners want to understand the song’

    Gulzar: ‘Words should amaze or amuse, only then will listeners want to understand the song’

    Nasreen Munni Kabir
    · Aug 18, 2016 · 12:00 pm
  • Kausar Munir: ‘I don’t like to be bracketed, in life or in anything else’

    Kausar Munir: ‘I don’t like to be bracketed, in life or in anything else’

    Akshay Manwani
    · Apr 12, 2016 · 10:00 am
  • How Majrooh Sultanpuri bent the rules of grammar to write some of Hindi cinema’s best-known tunes

    How Majrooh Sultanpuri bent the rules of grammar to write some of Hindi cinema’s best-known tunes

    Akshay Manwani
    · May 24, 2015 · 10:30 am