Amitabh Bhattacharya points out the creative challenge that lyricists face today!

With so many iconic songs from the past getting recreated, one can definitely sense the dearth of good original tracks, in the current scenario. Also, there seems to be a change in the kind of music that is being liked by the audience and that is what National Award winning lyricist Amitabh Bhattacharya pointed out at a recent event.

He says that it has become important to come up with a prominent hook-up line while penning a song. “Listeners are appreciating conversational lyrics and unusual template of songs as opposed to the fixed lyrical template of ‘asthai’, antara, mukhra, second mukhra and last paragraph.

“However, there is a pressure to create a hook line in every song and that, at times, restricts creativity,” he says.

Amitabh Bhattacharya has penned songs for many films including the recent ones like ‘Raees’ and ‘Ae Dil Hai Mushkil’. He is of an opinion that “(lyricists)have to put some words or line that can be used zillion times to make the song popular and somewhere that is not very logical when it comes to lyrics.”

Amitabh Bhattacharya has also done playback singing and given voice to songs like ‘Iktara’ from ‘Wake Up Sid’, ‘Pungi’ from ‘Agent Vinod’ and many more. (Also Read: Amitabh Bhattacharya reveals the deleted stanza from the song ‘Ae Dil Hai Mushkil’)

Inputs from IANS

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