Mumbai, Aug 27 (TIWN) Celebrated poet and lyricist Kausar Munir believes that becoming a lyricist is quite a customised job that requires a different skillset whereas poetry is very much self-expression of the poet.

She said the younger generation is very interested in ‘Shayari’ and poetry but they need more doorways.  Kausar is known for penning some of the beautiful Bollywood songs like ‘Maana Ke Hum Yaar Nahin’, ‘Suno Na Sangemarmar’, ‘Falak Tak’, among many others.  As the poet-lyricist is part of ‘India Shayari Project’, a poetry show, asked about how writing poetry is different from writing lyrics of a Bollywood song, Kausar told IANS: “Poetry is very different in that sense compared to writing lyrics of a song as poetry follows certain rules and parameters. Poetry is essentially something that I feel arises from your own experiences, narratives, thoughts and expressions. It’s purely the poet’s expression, that’s what poetry is.