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Hindi film lyricists
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’
Nasreen Munni Kabir
· Aug 18, 2016 · 12:00 pm
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
Akshay Manwani
· May 24, 2015 · 10:30 am
