A Bollywood song is more than Hindi lyrics over a beat. It has a shape listeners recognise before they follow the words, an emotional centre, and arrangements that move between Indian and Western instruments in a way no other pop music quite does. Getting that with AI is about telling the song which kind of film song it is, and writing lyrics in the shape film songs actually have.
Which Bollywood song are you making?
'Bollywood' covers many moods. Each has typical tempos and instruments; these are ranges, not rules.
- Romantic ballad: around 70-90 BPM, strings, piano, acoustic guitar, bansuri, soft and warm vocal.
- Mid-tempo romance: around 90-110 BPM, guitar, light tabla or dholak, sweeping strings in the chorus.
- Dance number: around 110-130 BPM, dhol, synth bass, brass stabs, big group chorus.
- Sad song: slow, piano or sarangi, sparse arrangement, aching vocal.
- Sufi-filmi: harmonium, tabla, claps and chorus, building intensity, devotional love.
- Wedding and sangeet: dholak, shehnai, claps, playful lyrics, singalong hooks.
- Era: 70s retro (brass, funky bass), 90s melody (strings, tabla, bright vocal), modern Bollywood pop (synths, polished mix).
Write it in the shape of a film song
Film songs are built on a mukhda, the opening hook that returns, and antaras, the verses that travel away and lead back. Between them come instrumental interludes. If your lyrics are a flat run of verses with no returning refrain, the result will not feel like a film song whatever the arrangement.
Mark the mukhda as [Chorus] and each antara as [Verse], with a blank line between blocks, and repeat the mukhda wherever it should return. An [Instrumental] tag leaves room for an interlude. Here are original lines to adapt, in Devanagari and Roman:
- [Chorus] तेरे बिना ये शामें अधूरी, तेरे बिना हर बात अधूरी / Tere bina ye shaamein adhoori, tere bina har baat adhoori
- [Verse] चाँद भी पूछे तेरा पता, हवा भी लाए तेरी सदा / Chaand bhi poochhe tera pata, hawa bhi laaye teri sada
- Dance hook: Dhol baje, dil nache, aaj ki raat hai apni
- Sufi line: Ishq mera sajda hai, tu hi mera khuda hai
Copy-ready Bollywood prompts
Paste one into the style box, or start from the Bollywood genre preset and edit. A prompt steers the song but does not guarantee every detail on every take.
- Romantic Bollywood ballad, 90s style, lush strings, soft tabla, bansuri interludes, 78 BPM, warm male vocal, tender and nostalgic
- Modern Bollywood dance number, 124 BPM, dhol and synth bass, brass stabs, energetic female vocal with group chorus, party mood
- Sad Bollywood song, piano and sarangi, slow 68 BPM, emotional male vocal, sparse and aching
- Sufi Bollywood song, harmonium, tabla, claps and chorus, builds to a powerful finish, devotional love
- Sangeet song, dholak, shehnai, claps, playful female vocal, 104 BPM, fun singalong
- Retro 70s Bollywood, funky bass, brass section, bongos, 112 BPM, cheerful and dramatic
Voices: describe them, do not name singers
Describe the voice you want: soft, husky, bright, powerful, a male and female duet, a group chorus. Do not ask for a song in a famous playback singer's voice; that is not something Autunes offers, and imitating a real artist raises legal and ethical problems. A described voice also gives you more control over the mood.
Duets can come out with one voice dominating on some takes. If the duet matters, generate a couple of takes and keep the one where the voices trade lines the way you want.
Step by step in Autunes
Everything runs in the browser at www.autunes.com. New accounts get 15 credits once, enough for one song.
- Open the song creator in Custom mode and paste your lyrics with section tags, or describe the idea and let Autunes write the lyrics.
- Pick Hindi (or Urdu or Punjabi) in the language picker. Devanagari and Roman script both work.
- Choose the Bollywood preset or paste your own prompt, and set a BPM if you want.
- Choose Zori5 Turbo (10 credits) or Zori5.5 XL (15 credits, richer). On the free plan, pasting your own lyrics gets you XL.
- Generate. A song is usually ready in 2-4 minutes, up to 3 minutes long on Free and Pro and up to 5 minutes on Creator, which suits a full film-style song with two antaras.
Polish it
A variation (5 credits) gives a fresh take; choose Subtle to stay close or Reimagine to move further, and select a section to change only that part. The free plan includes one variation; Pro and Creator are unlimited.
Every vocal is checked against your lyrics, and lines that came out wrong are flagged. On Pro and Creator, re-sing just that line (3 credits) or run auto-fix pronunciation (10 credits). Layer Studio adds tabla, strings or guitar for 5 credits a layer, and stems split the song into six parts for 5 credits. A lyric video, in 12 styles including Karaoke, suits a sangeet screen or a YouTube upload; it is free in full on Pro and Creator, and ₹19 on the free plan after a 30-second preview.
Where to use it, and the licence
Free-plan songs are for personal use and public on Autunes by default. The ₹9 licence gives you the download and commercial use of that song forever. Pro (₹599 for 30 days) and Creator (₹2,999 for 30 days) include a commercial licence on every song, covering reels, monetised YouTube, short films, weddings and events, and release through any distributor, with no royalty to Autunes.
Common mistakes
- No returning mukhda.
- Saying just 'Bollywood' with no mood, era or tempo.
- Reusing lines from a famous film song, which are still under copyright.
- Asking for a famous singer's voice instead of describing one.