Diwali falls on Sunday, 8 November 2026. Most of us will send and receive the same forwarded greeting a hundred times that week. A short song that names your family, your street, your mother’s faral and the cousin who always bursts the loudest crackers is the one people actually play twice and save.
This guide shows how to make that song with AI in about fifteen minutes: what to put in it, how to write the lyrics in Hindi or your own language, prompts that give the right festive sound, and how to share it.
What makes a Diwali song feel personal
A generic “Happy Diwali” track sounds like an ad. What makes a song yours is detail only your family would recognise. Before you write anything, jot down five or six of these:
- Names: the family, the grandparents, the kids, the pet. Nicknames work better than full names in a chorus.
- Place: the city, the society, the village you go back to, the rooftop where you light diyas.
- Rituals: Lakshmi puja, the rangoli competition, the annual card game, cleaning the house for a week.
- Food: kaju katli, chakli, karanji, murukku, the sweet box from one particular shop.
- A small joke: who always gets the new clothes first, who hides the best mithai.
- Who is it from: “from the Sharma family” or “from all of us in Pune” makes a good last line.
Step by step: your Diwali song on Autunes
- Step 1: Choose the language. On the Create page, set the vocal language. Hindi, Marathi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Bengali, Gujarati, Punjabi and Urdu are all sung in their own script, along with English and 40+ more.
- Step 2: Write the lyrics, or describe the song. Paste your own verse and chorus with [Verse] and [Chorus] tags, or write one line such as “a happy Diwali song for the Sharma family in Jaipur, mention Dadi, Rohan and Pihu” and let the AI write the words. You can edit what it writes before generating.
- Step 3: Describe the sound. Name the genre, mood, voice, instruments and tempo. Examples are below.
- Step 4: Pick the engine. On the free plan, when you write your own lyrics you can use Zori5.5 XL (15 credits), which has the more lifelike voice. Songs made from a description use Zori5 Turbo (10 credits). Pro and Creator can use XL on any song.
- Step 5: Generate and listen. A song usually takes 2–3 minutes and arrives with a title, cover art and lyrics synced line by line.
- Step 6: Fix rather than restart. If one word comes out wrong, edit just that part of the song (3 credits) instead of making the whole thing again. Pro and Creator can also pick up to 5 lines and have only those re-sung.
- Step 7: Share or download. Share the song link on WhatsApp straight away. To keep the file, a download on the free plan is ₹9 for that song.
Sample Diwali lyrics you can adapt
Write names in the same script as the rest of the lyric: “नेहा” in a Hindi song, not “Neha”. The singer reads the script, so mixing in Latin letters is where names go wrong. Here are short starting points in four languages; swap in your own names and details.
Hindi, a family greeting song:
- [Verse] दीप जले हर आँगन में, खुशियाँ आईं घर-घर में
- दादी की पूजा, पिहू की रंगोली, रोहन के पटाखे गली में
- [Chorus] शुभ दीपावली, शुभ दीपावली
- शर्मा परिवार की ओर से, सबको शुभ दीपावली
Marathi, for the faral-and-diyas feeling (पणती is the small clay lamp, फराळ the Diwali snacks):
- [Verse] पणत्यांच्या ओळींनी उजळले अंगण
- आईच्या फराळाने गोड झाले मन
- [Chorus] शुभ दीपावली, आनंदाची दिवाळी
Tamil, for a Deepavali morning:
- [Verse] வீடெல்லாம் விளக்கு ஒளி, மனமெல்லாம் மகிழ்ச்சி
- [Chorus] தீபாவளி வாழ்த்துக்கள், எல்லோருக்கும் தீபாவளி வாழ்த்துக்கள்
Gujarati, which can carry straight on into the New Year the next day (સાલ મુબારક):
- [Verse] દીવા પ્રગટે આંગણે, ખુશીઓ આવે ઘરમાં
- [Chorus] સાલ મુબારક, નૂતન વર્ષાભિનંદન
Prompts that give the right festive sound
The lyric says what the song is about; the style description decides how it sounds. These work well as starting points:
- Family greeting: “warm Diwali family song, Hindi, female vocal, dholak, shehnai and soft strings, joyful, 100 BPM”
- Party track: “Bollywood dance song for a Diwali party, male and female vocals, dhol, synth brass, claps, 118 BPM”
- Devotional: “gentle Lakshmi puja bhajan, female vocal, harmonium, tabla, bells, slow and peaceful, 80 BPM”
- Marathi: “Marathi festive song, female vocal, dholki and tutari, bright and homely, 104 BPM”
- Tamil: “Tamil Deepavali song, nadaswaram and thavil intro, male vocal, celebratory, 110 BPM”
- Gujarati New Year: “Gujarati festive folk song, dhol and shehnai, group chorus, cheerful, 112 BPM”
- Office or team greeting: “upbeat Hinglish Diwali song for a company team video, pop production, bright and short”
Tips that make the song land
Keep lines short and the chorus simple. A chorus that repeats one greeting (“शुभ दीपावली”) is easy to sing along to and works in a 30-second WhatsApp status. Put names at the end of a line or on the first beat of the chorus, where the singer stresses them.
If you want ten names in one song, spread them across two verses in pairs or threes rather than one long list. Write your own words rather than copying lines from a famous film song; the lyrics should be yours to share.
Start by the first week of November. A song takes minutes, but you will probably want two or three versions with different voices or tempos before you pick the one for the family group.