Emmy-nominated musical duo Salim and Sulaiman Merchant are among the best musician duos in India. The duo mainly composes music for Hindi movies.
EXCLUSIVE: Composer Sulaiman Merchant Reveals The Two Albums Of Them That Did Well, But The Movies Didn’t
Over the years, music composers Salim-Sulaiman have managed to become one of the most respected names in Hindi film music. From Chak De! India, Fashion until Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi, Band Baaja Baaraat and much more, the Merchant brothers have come a long way in making great hit music albums for countless Bollywood movies; for decades now.
In an exclusive music room interview with Bollywood HungamaWhile sharing the interesting behind-the-scenes stories of how they made their top scores, Salim and Sulaiman talk about their two albums that did well, but the movie didn’t. Speaking of their albums for the movie Kurbaan, Salim claimed, “That’s a great album. I think it’s one of our best albums.”
Sulaiman added, “It’s surprising that the movie didn’t do very well unfortunately, but it’s one of those movies where the movie doesn’t do well, but their songs become evergreen. I think there’s only two movies like that that we’ve made, as far as I remember, where the songs became hits. Bald.‘I agree with him, Salim added, “Yes, that’s true. Songs from Bald did really well.”
Directed by Rensil D’Silva, Kurbaan is a 2009 action thriller film starring Saif Ali Khan and Kareena Kapoor. While Bald is a 2005 supernatural horror film starring Ajay Devgn, Vivek Oberoi, Esha Deol, John Abraham and Lara Dutta.
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