My career happened because I started working with friends. I had no burning desire to be a dialogue writer,screenwriter or lyricist. He knew Shah Rukh Khan, Aamir Khan and Karisma Kapoor even before they became stars,and is modest about his achievements as a dialogue and lyric writer in Bollywood. Iyengar’s is a story without struggles,he admits,at least at a broader,Bollywood level.Īs a journalist with a film magazine in the ’90s,he was friends with Karan Johar and fashion designer Manish Malhotra at a time when they were also starting out. “He’s nervous,” he says,about his longtime friend who later turned collaborator in films such as Kal Ho Na Ho,My Name is Khan and Student of the Year,among other Dharma Productions. Then I texted Nikhil Advani and Shankar Mahadevan (of composer trio Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy),” he recalls sitting in his Bandra apartment.Ī few minutes before the start of the interview,Niranjan Iyengar was talking to Karan Johar on the phone,giving him a pep-talk before the filmmaker makes his acting debut in Anurag Kashyap’s Bombay Velvet.
“While I was deciding between Adidas and Nike,the line came to me, Tere lab pe mere hone ka nishaana baaki hai… and within 40 minutes,I had finished writing the song.
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