Virag Mishra - A rock star lyricist with a passion for penning down
new age thoughts that take the lyric writing in the industry to the
next level.
Dus Kahaniya, Sanjay Gupta's Alibagh, Wood Stock Villa, Satish
Kaushik's Tere Sang, Director Rohit Shetty's Sunday, in all these
movies there is a common factor- Virag Mishra. Yes, he wrote lyrics
for the songs in all these films. Virag Mishra, currently the
national creative head of Red FM 93.5 Bajaate Raho, won many awards in
advertising before plunging into radio, one of the best radio writers
with a flair for writing lyrics. He is the winner of the Stardust
Award in best lyrics category for the song 'Zinda Hoon Main' from
'Zinda'. He also contributed the Rap portion in song 'Ganpat'. Written
lyrics for 'Jimmy' the debut film of Mithun Chakraborty's son Memoh.
Recently he spotted in Capital, here is a synopsis of our chat with
him………..
According to a buzz among critics, there are some objectionable words;
do you think the words which used that song ' Ganpat' should be used
in?
If we need to portray a farmer in a film, we will take farms,
agricultural land as backdrop, and we will use the language which is
used by the farmers, we can't make him to speak English, in the same
way, when we are writing a song, we need to write according to the
situation and character, The movie 'Shoot Out At Lokhandwala' was
entirely based on under world the lyric writer used the language used
by underworld Don. So what's wrong in that?
How was your experience while working with Sanjay Gupta and Satish Kaushik?
It was brilliant, Satish Kaushik is a person who finds the roots of
any aspect before working on it, and Sanjay has a tremendous sense of
music and knowledge of technology, it was really good to work with
them.
Where do you see the Film Industry after 10 years in terms of
technology or any other aspect?
So many new faces, new talents are emerging in this industry and
people like Sanjay Gupta & Satish Kaushik are really making this
industry to feel proud about their presence in industry.
In writing also there are certain themes like, Patriotism, Human
Emotions, Socio-Political Matters, which is your favorite theme to
write on? And do you create any specific atmosphere to write?
If you ask me to write on a cricket bat, I can & I thing a writer is
all about that. As far as atmosphere is concern I really don't need.
Some times I use my mobile's messaging box as my writing pad. I get
ideas even I am speaking to some one. I don't need to make any
specific atmosphere.
Who will be the music director you would love to work with and who
admires you as a writer?
Well, I would like to work with every one, because every music
director has his own signature. A writer has to share a special space
with music director because if music is body, lyrics are the soul of a
song. I really very much admired by writers Santosh Anand, (Kranti,
Prem Rog, Shor etc.) & Neeraj (Prem Rog, Gambler, Sharmilee etc.)
You also wrote title songs for TV serials like 'Chuna Hai Aasman' for
Star One & 'Mohalla Mohabatwala' etc. So is there any difference
between writing for big screen and small screen?
Yes, absolutely there is a difference. Title song of a serial is to
sell the show, when you write for film there will be a theme and
situation for which you need to write.
