India’s biggest song writers are competitors, but they are also the best of friends
It’s a lazy morning at Taj Mahal Tea House where I am to meet five of Bollywood’s top lyricists: Kausar Munir, Anvita Dutt, Swanand Kirkire, Varun Grover and Amitabh Bhattacharya. They claim to be great friends but then fiction is their forte, and the film industry is anyway famous for peddling hallmark-card versions of every relationship, of course replete with lachrymose background music. Competitors can’t really be friends, I think. They can be acquaintances. Drinking buddies perhaps. But friends? Can’t be.
Ananya Ghosh is an assistant editor with Hindustan Times Brunch. She has 10 years of experience as a journalist having worked as a copy editor/feature writer in various publications....view detail