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 # Subject:  Sameer's Guide to: How to become a Lyrics Tycoon
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 # Posted by: avachat@sun8.mch.sni.de (Abhay Avachat)
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 # Author:Abhay Avachat
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                           Sameer's  Guide  to
                    How to become a Lyrics Tycoon

                                  by
                            Abhay Avachat
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Once upon a time in a village in England, a poet  called  William
Shakespere  said  -  poetry  is "spontaneous overflow of powerful
emotions". How true it was then, how  false  it  is  now  !  Time
changes,  and  with  it almost everything. Sometime the change is
slow evolution, but sometime it is a revolution. We  are  in  the
age  of  witnessing one such revolution in Poetry and for this we
must thank the main crusader of it -- Sameer !

Sameer a well-known lyricist of todays Hindi films, is the son of
another lyricist Anjaan. At a time he is usually working on 30-40
films simultaneously, and charges 1 to 2 Lakhs per film.  But  we
are not going to discuss his such secondary achievements, but his
main gift to the art of poem writing. Also we are not  discussing
the vulgarity of lyrics, but rather the METHOD by which he writes
lyrics.

No longer you need to have "powerful emotions", but you  need  to
know a set of words that rhyme mutually. Then you group such pat-
terns according to the theme you want, and you have  a  NEW  song
ready. This is what I call "Lyrics Factory", and Sameer is sure a
multi-millionaire in it. Follow his footsteps, and  you  will  be
sure successful !

Consider eg. - you have to write a "rainy" song. What is  rain  ?
Yes,  it's  "saawan". What does it do ? Yes, "barasataa hai". Now
what does rhyme with this ? One word is "tarasataa". Kyaa tarasa-
taa hai ?  Of course "dil". So we can start with the "mukhada"

   jab jab saawan barasataa hai
   tujhse milne ko dil tarasataa hai

Simple ? Yes, it is. That's why we should thank Sameer.  His  new
and  original  method  creates  songs,  which are not arbitrarily
worded, and most imp. -  are  easy  to  give  tune  to,  even  by
Nadeem-Shravan.

Here are some more examples.

Do you want a romantic song ? Here is one of the many possible

 main waadaa karataa huN, ke tumse pyar karataa huN
 tere liye jeeta huN, tere liye marataa huN

With this "mukhada", many stanzas can be  created  which  end  in
"darataa", "harataa", "phirataa" etc. This is left as an exercise
to the nettor.

Do you want a village song ? OK. Think of some rural Hindi  word.
Yes,  one  is "saiNyaa". Great. Now it is a matter of few seconds
to come up with

   O saiNyaa, mere saiNyaa, pakdo  na  meri  baiNyaa,  padu  main
paiNyaa

Want a Urdu-like song ? Best  options  are  "gulaab",  "sharaab",
"jawaab" etc. Here is one example

   chaman me tujhasa gulaab nahiN, tera dildar koi jawaab nahiN

Note the usage of "dildar". You should have a reservoir  of  such
_fillers_ like "jaanam", "jaanu", "yaaraa" etc.

So friend, all you need to know is what you want.  Everything  is
straight  forward  afterwards. And Nadeem-Shravan and Kumar Shanu
with Alka Yadnik are always there for you to  sing  these  songs.
No  longer  you  should have new ideas, new style of presentation
but you should have readymade components on the shelf.

In short you should have a "Lyrics Factory" to become  a  "Lyrics
Tycoon" like Sameer.

- Abhay.


        A tribute to "Lyrics Tycoon" - Sameer !