Published 13:19 IST, June 1st 2020

Wajid Khan's death: Sonam Kapoor, Sidharth Malhotra mourn the loss

The passing away of a singer Wajid Khan has been a great blow to the industry. As per reports, Wajid Khan left for his heavenly abode on June 1.

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passing away of a great singer and music composer Wajid Khan has been a great blow to industry. As per reports, Wajid Khan left for his heavenly abode in wee hours of June 1 in a Chembur hospital due to complications arising from a kidney infection. Scores of celebrities from film fraternity poured in ir tributes for singer and also offered prayers to family. 

Bollywood celebs mourn Wajid Khan's demise

Expressing her grief over loss of such a great singer, Sonam Kapoor condoled death of singer with a throwback picture on her Instagram p. picture is from promotions of her film Dolly Ki Doli. In picture, late singer can be seen holding Neerja actress’ dupatta and seems to be crooning a song. In picture, fans can also catch glimpse of Sonam’s co-actor in film Varun Sharma. While captioning picture, Sonam prayed for departed soul of ace composer. Sonam also shared ar picture on her Instagram story where she can be seen unveiling post of film along with Wajid-Sajid, Arbaaz Khan, Malaika Arora, and Varun Sharma.

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On or hand, Sidharth Malhotra also mourned loss of Wajid Khan. actor penned his heartfelt tribute on his Twitter handle. In post, actor who was deeply sdened to hear about demise wrote how Wajid's music gave life to so many stories. Apart from two, several or stars including Anupam Kher, Akshay Kumar, Ranveer Singh, Parineeti Chopra, Priyanka Chopra also paid ir tribute to great singer.


According to media reports, Wajid, who was suffering from kidney and heart ailments, was hospitalized in Mumbai. Wajid was reportedly on a ventilator before breathing his last. Salim Merchant confirmed news of Wajid Khan's death and said composer was hospitalized a few days ago at Surana Hospital, Chembur where his condition deteriorated. Salim told "He h multiple issues. He h a kidney issue and h a transplant a while ago. But recently he got to kw about kidney infection. He was on ventilator for last four days, after his situation started getting worse. Kidney infection was beginning and n he got critical."
 
(With inputs from PTI)

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13:18 IST, June 1st 2020