{"id":7794,"date":"2020-06-01T04:40:28","date_gmt":"2020-06-01T04:40:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/?p=7794"},"modified":"2020-06-01T04:40:29","modified_gmt":"2020-06-01T04:40:29","slug":"music-director-singer-wajid-khan-passes-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/2020\/06\/01\/music-director-singer-wajid-khan-passes-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Music director-singer Wajid Khan passes away"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Wajid Khan of Bollywood music composer duo Sajid-Wajid passed away on Monday in Mumbai.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wajid Khan of Bollywood music composer duo Sajid-Wajid, credited with albums like Dabangg and Wanted, passed away on Monday in Mumbai. He was 42.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bollywood playback singer Sonu Nigam<\/a>, who collaborated with the duo on several albums, confirmed the news to indianexpress.com<\/a>. Nigam said, \u201cHe has passed away. Can\u2019t talk right now.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Wajid Khan\u2019s colleague and music director Salim Merchant mourned his demise on Twitter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cDevastated with the news of the passing away of my brother Wajid of Sajid -Wajid fame. May Allah give strength to the family. Safe travels bro @wajidkhan7 you\u2019ve gone too soon. It\u2019s a huge loss to our fraternity. I\u2019m shocked & broken. Inna Lillahi wa inna ilayhi raji\u2019un,\u201d read his post.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Many other Bollywood celebrities took to Twitter to pay tribute to Wajid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Priyanka Chopra tweeted, \u201cTerrible news. The one thing I will always remember is Wajid bhai\u2019s laugh. Always smiling. Gone too soon. My condolences to his family and everyone grieving. Rest in peace my friend. You are in my thoughts and prayers. @wajidkhan7\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Harshdeep Kaur wrote on Twitter, \u201cExtremely sad to hear about @wajidkhan7 ji\u2026 Gone too soon!! May god bless his soul\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sona Mohapatra posted on Twitter, \u201cHeartbreaking news. Wajid no more. Spent time on the SRGMP show with him as a co-judge & he was so kind & generous. I know he was ailing for a while, regret not picking up the phone on him in this lockdown. Stunned & sad.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHeartbroken. Both @SajidMusicKhan and @wajidkhan7 have been close & true friends. The kind who might see the light on and show up at our studio in the middle of the night just to meet and talk and share a laugh. Can\u2019t believe Wajid and I will never speak again,\u201d Vishal Dadlani said via Twitter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sajid-Wajid made their Bollywood debut with Salman Khan starrer Pyaar Kiya Toh Darna Kya in 1998, and later went on to score many albums for the superstar\u2019s films, including Chori Chori, Hello Brother, Mujhse Shaadi Karogi, Partner, Wanted and Dabangg (1, 2 and 3). Most recently, Sajid-Wajid composed Salman\u2019s \u201cBhai Bhai\u201d single.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As a singer, Wajid Khan began his career with Partner in 2008. He has crooned popular tracks like \u201cHud Hud Dabangg\u201d, \u201cJalwa\u201d, \u201cChinta Ta Ta Chita Chita\u201d and \u201cFevicol Se\u201d among more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Wajid Khan of Bollywood music composer duo Sajid-Wajid passed away on Monday in Mumbai. Wajid Khan of Bollywood music composer duo Sajid-Wajid, credited with albums like Dabangg and Wanted, passed away on Monday in Mumbai. He was 42. Bollywood playback singer Sonu Nigam, who collaborated with the duo on several albums, confirmed the news to indianexpress.com. Nigam …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7795,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,24],"tags":[82,11055,11382,2830,12789,12700,12832,13263,13264,31,13066,13262,345,6656,13167,13260],"class_list":["post-7794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment-news","category-india-news","tag-bollywood","tag-bollywood-celebrity","tag-bollywood-fashion","tag-celebrity","tag-celebrity-style","tag-coronavirus","tag-lockdown","tag-music-director","tag-music-director-singer-wajid-khan-passes-away","tag-priyanka-chopra","tag-sajid-wajid","tag-salim-merchant","tag-salman-khan","tag-singer","tag-sonu-nigam","tag-wajid-khan"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7794"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7794"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7796,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7794\/revisions\/7796"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}