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Javed Akhtar: current filmmakers are clueless about how to use songs in films

Veteran screenwriter and lyricist Javed Akhtar speaks about how he thinks filmmakers are putting songs in their films just for the money and not as narrative tool. 

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      Javed Akhtar: current filmmakers are clueless about how to use songs in films

      Veteran screenwriter and lyricist Javed Akhtar has chided the new generation of filmmakersby saying that they put songs in their films just for the money and don't use it as a narrative tool.

      Akhtar, who has penned lyrics for some of the biggest songs of Hindi cinema added that the current crop of filmmakers are clueless about how to use songs in a narrative as they have not grown under the influence of Hindi films but of western cinema.

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      He further added that when songs are incorporated in the narrative, they are pushed in the background and are used purely for money as music rights generate revenue.

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