India, July 19 -- Lyricist Manoj Muntashir Shukla terms his second National Award as "divine and exhilarating". He won the best lyricist award for his song Jaate Hai Hum Jaane Do for Ajay Devgn-starrer film Maidaan (2024) at the 72nd National Film Awards.

Muntashir reveals that its composer AR Rahman had then predicted that the song lyrics are National Award material. Recalling the recording moment, he says, "Rehman sir is a night person, and I am a day person. So, we were in Chennai and Boney (Kapoor, producer) saheb said we need to do this. On director Amit Sharma's narration and Rehman saheb's tune, I went to the studio's first floor and sat on his swing and came up with a song in an hour. His first reaction was: Manoj, this is a Nati...