Bhojpuri and Maithili Songs for Families Abroad
Chhath geet, vivah geet, sohar, Holi songs and birthday songs in Bhojpuri or Maithili, with your family's names in them, made wherever you live.
Bhojpuri has always travelled. Bidesia songs were born from men leaving Bihar and eastern UP for work in Calcutta and beyond, and the girmitiya families who went to Mauritius, Fiji, Suriname, Trinidad and Guyana in the 1800s took sohar, vivah geet and Holi songs with them; Mauritius's Bhojpuri wedding songs, Geet Gawai, are on UNESCO's list of intangible cultural heritage. Today the same songs follow families to New Jersey, London, Toronto, Dubai, Doha, Riyadh, Singapore and Sydney.
What is harder to carry is the people who knew the songs. Autunes lets you make a Bhojpuri or Maithili song in a few minutes, sung with your words and your family's names, for Chhath, a wedding, a new baby, Holi, a birthday, or just a song to send to Maa back home.
Prices show in your local currency and you pay by international card. Bhojpuri and Maithili are on every plan, including the free one.
Why creators choose Autunes
Songs for every family occasion
Chhath geet, vivah geet for haldi, tilak and vidai, sohar for a new baby, Holi and phagua songs, birthday and anniversary songs, and songs that simply say 'we miss you'.
Names sung the way you say them
Names are sung when they are written in the lyrics. Write them in Devanagari the way the family says them (for example 'मुन्नी', 'राजू', 'अंशिका'), not in English letters, and the singer will say them the way you do at home.
Pay in your own currency
US$, £, €, AED, SAR, C$, A$ and S$, by international card. A single song with its licence is US$1.79 or £1.29, and abroad that also gives back the credits the song cost.
Send it as a video
Every finished song can become a lyric video with the words on screen, in portrait for WhatsApp status and Reels or landscape for YouTube. Lyric videos cost no credits. On the free plan you can make 3 a day with a small watermark, and the clean download is ₹19 in India (US$1.99, £1.79, AED 7.99 abroad); Pro and Creator have no watermark.
Every line checked
Every finished vocal is transcribed and compared with its lyrics, so a misheard line or name shows up. On Pro and Creator, Auto-Fix (10 credits) re-records only the lines that came out wrong and leaves the rest of the song as it is.
Songs families abroad make
Start from the occasion, then add the language, the singer, the instruments and the names. A few that work well:
- Chhath at a lake far from home: 'Bhojpuri Chhath geet, women's group vocal, dholak and harmonium, keeping Chhath in Houston and missing the ghat in Patna.' More on the Chhath Puja song page.
- A wedding abroad: 'Bhojpuri haldi geet for पूजा's wedding in London, playful women's group, dholak, the aunts teasing the groom राहुल.'
- A new baby: 'Maithili sohar for our son आरव born in Toronto, grandmother's blessing from Darbhanga, soft dholak and harmonium.'
- A song for Maa: 'Bhojpuri song from a son working in Dubai to his mother in Siwan, missing her cooking and the courtyard, male vocal, flute and dholak, tender.'
- Holi or Phagwa: 'Bhojpuri phagua song, fast dholak and jhaal, group vocals, colours and gulal, for a Holi party in Mauritius.'
- A birthday call: 'Bhojpuri birthday song for बाबूजी turning 70 in Ballia, sung by his grandchildren in New York, cheerful folk band.'
Prices where you live
Outside India, prices are shown in your own currency and you pay by international card. Downloading one song with its licence costs US$1.79, £1.29, €1.59, AED 6.49, SAR 6.49, C$2.49 or A$2.49, and abroad it also gives back the credits the song cost to make, so your next song is free. Pro is about US$7, £5.70 or AED 26 for 30 days; Creator about US$36, £28.50 or AED 132. Passes never auto-renew.
Free-plan songs are for personal use, which covers sharing in the family group and playing them at home. For a song you want to post on YouTube, Instagram or a streaming service, take the single-song licence or a Pro or Creator pass, which include a commercial licence.
For the older diaspora: Mauritius, Fiji, Suriname, Trinidad and Guyana
Many families of the girmitiya diaspora still sing Bhojpuri at weddings and Holi, though fewer people know the old words each year. You can write the lines your family remembers into the lyrics, or describe the song in English and let Autunes write it in Bhojpuri. The song is sung in Bhojpuri from Devanagari script, so if your family writes the words in Roman letters, give the Devanagari version where you can for the clearest singing.
Frequently asked questions
Pay once, the song is yours — 0% royalties.
Buy Pro or Creator and every song in your account is yours; or own a single song for ₹9 in India or US$1.79 abroad, where it also gives back the credits the song cost to make (10, or 15 for Zori5.5 XL), so your next song is free. Use it commercially anywhere, release it on Spotify, Apple Music and JioSaavn, and keep everything it earns — Autunes takes no royalty. Every song comes with a creation certificate. How ownership works
Can I use Autunes from the USA, UK, Canada or the Gulf?
Yes. Autunes works in the browser anywhere, prices are shown in your local currency (US$, £, €, AED, SAR, C$, A$, S$) and you pay by international card.
How much does a Bhojpuri song cost abroad?
Outside India, prices are shown in your own currency and you pay by international card. Downloading one song with its licence costs US$1.79, £1.29, €1.59, AED 6.49, SAR 6.49, C$2.49 or A$2.49, and abroad it also gives back the credits the song cost to make, so your next song is free. Pro is about US$7, £5.70 or AED 26 for 30 days; Creator about US$36, £28.50 or AED 132. Passes never auto-renew.
Is it free to try?
Yes, you can start free. New accounts get 15 free credits once, on signup, which covers one full song on Zori5 Turbo (10 credits a song). Zori5.5 XL costs 15 credits and is used on the free plan when you paste your own lyrics. Free songs run up to 3 minutes and are for personal use.
Can the song include my family's names?
Names are sung when they are written in the lyrics. Write them in Devanagari the way the family says them (for example 'मुन्नी', 'राजू', 'अंशिका'), not in English letters, and the singer will say them the way you do at home.
Which languages can it sing for Bihar and UP families?
Bhojpuri, Maithili and Hindi, all on every plan. Many songs mix Hindi and Bhojpuri, and that works too: write the lyrics the way the family speaks.
Can I send the song to my parents in India?
Yes. Publish the song and its link plays in any browser, or turn it into a lyric video for WhatsApp. Every finished song can become a lyric video with the words on screen, in portrait for WhatsApp status and Reels or landscape for YouTube. Lyric videos cost no credits. On the free plan you can make 3 a day with a small watermark, and the clean download is ₹19 in India (US$1.99, £1.79, AED 7.99 abroad); Pro and Creator have no watermark.
Does it copy famous Bhojpuri singers?
No. Autunes does not imitate any real singer. You choose the kind of voice and the instruments, and the song is sung by Autunes's own voices.
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