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TopicBollywood lyricist

Topic: Bollywood lyricist

Ishq Hai is India’s top bridal entry song. Lyricist Raj Shekhar gave it soul

Raj Shekhar has penned Bollywood’s biggest love anthems, from Ishq Hai and Aise Kyun to Pehle Bhi Main. His romantic lyrics keep finding their way into wedding playlists and Reels.

Anand Bakshi’s lyrics captured love, loss, yearning for home—They made him a ‘people’s writer’

Anand Bakshi understood the importance of storytelling. Before writing any song for a film, he would ask the director to narrate the plot—again and again.

Rajinder Krishan was Bollywood’s ‘luckiest’ lyricist. Hit songs to horse races

Lyricist Rajinder Krishan kept out of the limelight but the audience knew his words by heart at Ibaadat Foundation’s sold-out Daastaan-e-Rajinder Krishan show at Delhi's Kamani auditorium.

Adipurush dialogue writer Manoj Muntashir is an Amethi boy. Loves Urdu, boasts Brahmin pride

Manoj Muntashir has managed to achieve the impossible — bring together India’s political Right and Centre and achieve bipartisan consensus on how Ram is being denigrated.

5 songs to remember Shakeel Badayuni, Hindi cinema’s romantic poet

Ahead of Shakeel Badayuni's 105th birth anniversary on 3 August, we look back on his remarkable career and his unabashedly romantic soul.

Anand Bakshi almost gave up on Bollywood. Then came Bhagwan, Bhala Admi, a ticket collector

In ‘Nagme, Kisse, Baatein, Yaadein’, Rakesh Anand Bakshi gives readers an intimate peek into the life of the soldier-turned-lyricist Anand Bakshi.

5 songs to remember Shakeel Badayuni, who gave Hindi film music its best romantic poems

Shakeel Badayuni, the bard of love worked with the best of the best and delivered some of Hindi cinema’s most stirring love songs, in movies like Mighal-e-Azam and Chaudhvin Ka Chand.

‘Credit De Do Yaar’, sing Hindi movie lyricists as they call out music streaming platforms

In a video released Friday, 15 lyricists from the Hindi film industry have come together demanding they be credited properly for their work on music streaming platforms.

Jan Nisar Akhtar — Bollywood lyricist who was ‘poet in a real sense’

On his birth anniversary, ThePrint explores the life and love of Jan Nisar Akhtar.

Jailed for anti-Nehru poem & celebrated for Bollywood songs, Majrooh Sultanpuri had it all

He may have written the most memorable Bollywood songs, but Majrooh Sultanpuri was a revolutionary poet first.

On Camera

Bridgerton fever is back in India. Greater Noida aunties are killing it

The first Bridgerton kitty party was a roaring success. Aunties came dressed in their best saris. I would like to know what this kitty’s Whistledown is saying in her WhatsApp goss group.

Despite what Trump says, Russian oil imports to India can’t be wished away after US trade deal

Market analysts say any shift in sourcing crude will be gradual, as refiners weigh freight costs, sanctions risks and deep discounts on Russian Urals.

Australian amphibian aircraft firm eyes Indian civil & military market, ties up with Apogee Aerospace

Aligning with India's push to promote inter-coastal air connectivity, Apogee has ordered 15 seaplanes in a deal valued at Rs 3,500 crore.

Dear Narendrabhai, Bangladesh polls give India space to hit reset button

By next weekend, Bangladesh will have an elected government. This is India’s moment to reboot broken ties by moderating the ‘ghuspethiya’ rhetoric in poll-bound West Bengal and Assam.