Anand Bakshi was once asked if he considered himself the biggest or most popular songwriter from the past three decades, and his reply was,...
Anand Bakshi was once asked if he considered himself the biggest or most popular songwriter from the past three decades, and his reply was,
‘Main hamesha yeh samajhte aaya hoon ki waqt sabse bada fankaar hai. Wahi humein uthata hai, wahi girata. Issi liye, main hamesha waqt ka mureed raha hoon (I have always believed that time is the greatest artist. It’s time that makes us rise and fall. That’s why I have always been a fan of time).’
In this chapter, I share with you some of Anand Bakshi’s beliefs and ideas about songwriting. Some of these statements have been translated from the original Hindi and Urdu, so the reader will have to excuse whatever is lost in translation. What follows is a slice from a collection of thoughts that spans almost all his professional life.
So, let’s begin with these lines that he would write on the first page of every new diary of his: ‘I am a being of divine light and power. I have access to all that the universe has to offer. I can reach out and take or do whatever I want, whenever I want.’ His lyrics have survived the test of time. And how!
There was a time, in...
