Published 09:01 IST, June 8th 2020

'Wajid Khan was hell-bent on making me sing', says Shalmali Kholgade

Shalmali Kholgade shares about her first interaction with music composer Wajid Khan. Read ahead to know how he helped her record one of her most popular songs

Reported by: Vaishnavi Navalka
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Bollywood singer and music composer Wajid Khan passed away at of 42, last week due to COVID-19 co-morbidities. singer was popular for composing some great Bollywood songs in Salman Khan’s films like Wanted, Ek Tha Tiger and many more. According to reports, Wajid Khan died due to cardiac arrest and suffered from some kidney issues.

Wajid Khan along with his bror Sajid Khan, me one of most popular music composer duos in Hindi film industry. While entire entertainment industry was taken aback by  news of his untimely death, several celebrities took to social media to pen heartfelt tes for musician. Popular playback singer Shalmali Kholge also took to social media, to share fond memories of music composer.

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Shalmali Kholge shares her first interaction with Wajid Khan

Shalmali Kholagde is a popular playback singer kwn for her work in Bollywood as well as in Marathi film industry. On getting to kw about Wajid Khan's demise, Shalmali Kholge took to her social media to share her first interaction with Wajid Khan. She worked with Sajid-Wajid for film Daawat-E-Ishq in which she sang song Shayarana.

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Shalmali Kholagde wrote that Wajid Khan h called her to his office and me her sing song while he played it on harmonium. Shalmali Kholge shared that on first day of recording, she kept repeating to him that she could t sing song and that he should consider someone else for it “but he was so hell-bent on me singing song”, she ded on reflection.

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On second day too, she could t sing song to her satisfaction but Wajid Khan never gave up on her. On third day, Shalmali Kholge could finally sing song and she broke down after recording. She shared how Wajid Khan believed in her even when she could t believe herself. Ending te, she wrote that she was indebted to him for showing her faith and so much love in little time y spent toger.

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10:35 IST, June 5th 2020