Nadeem-Shravan

Name: Nadeem-Shravan
First Film : Dangal













BIOGRAPHY

Nadeem-Shravan (sometimes credited as Nadeem Shravan) is a music director duo in the Bollywood film industry of India. The duo derives its name from the first names of its two principals, Nadeem Saifi and Shravan Rathod.

Nadeem-Shravan are arguably the most successful music directors of the 1990s. They are known for their catchy songs that feature a strong rhythm (often accentuated by Latin percussion instruments) and great melodies. Major Hindi playback singers such as Udit Narayan, Alka Yagnik, Kumar Sanu, Anuradha Paudwal, and many others have sung under their baton.

Nadeem and Shravan met in 1972 at a function and decided to get together as a composer duo. Their first film was 'Dangal in 1979' but nothing much came of it. They then composed the music for the hit films Ilaka, Hisaab Khoon Ka, and Lashkar; however, while the films were great, the music was not talked about much.

Nadeem-Shravan's fortunes changed forever with the release of director Mahesh Bhatt's Aashiqui (1990). This film made mega-stars out of Nadeem-Shravan and singer Kumar Sanu, and won Nadeem-Shravan their first Filmfare Best Music Director Award. Aashiqui remains to this day the highest-selling Bollywood film soundtrack of all time.

1991 saw Nadeem-Shravan continue to rise with Lawrence D'Souza's Saajan (for which they won their second Filmfare Award) and another collaboration with Mahesh Bhatt in Dil Hai Ke Manta Nahin. Sadak and Phool Aur Kaante proved to be two other hit scores for them in 1991. In 1992, they provided the music for Shah Rukh Khan's film debut, Deewana, for which they won a third Filmfare Award. In 1993, they scored Mahesh Bhatt's Hum Hain Rahi Pyaar Ke, written by Aamir Khan and starring Aamir and Juhi Chawla.

In 1997, the team ran into some negative publicity when Nadeem, while on vacation in London, England, was named as a suspect in the murder of his former mentor, record executive Gulshan Kumar (the boss of T-Series Music Company), back in India. His passport became revoked and he was forced to stay in England until the crisis passed. Today, Nadeem still remains in the UK and, despite the immense geographical distance between England and India, he and Shravan continue to make fantastic music together.

In the latter half of the 1990s and into the 2000s, Nadeem-Shravan continued to score the music for the movies of the most popular Bollywood film directors, such as Subhash Ghai (Pardes, 1997), Dharmesh Darshan (Raja Hindustani, 1996, Dhadkan, 2000), and Dharmesh's brother Suneel Darshan (Ek Rishtaa, 2001 and Barsaat, 2005). They won their fourth Filmfare Best Music Director Award for Raja Hindustani, as well as a Screen Award, and Pardes netted them another Screen Award. Their score for Raaz in 2002 won them a Zee Cine Award.

Working with the Darshans has proven to be worthwhile for Nadeem-Shravan, since their most recent musical score 'Dosti-Friends Forever' allows their successful compositions to continue to rule the charts today.

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