Music composer Shravan of famous Nadeem Shravan duo passes away of Covid-19 complications

One of the most popular music composer duos of the 90's Shravan Rathod, one half of the music duo of Nadeem Shravan died of Covid-related complications Thursday night at Mumbai’s SL Raheja hospital. He was 66.

The news of his demise was confirmed by his son Sanjeev Rathod in a chat with PTI where he said, "He passed away around 10:15 PM tonight. Please pray for his soul." Post the news broke, many offered condolences on Twitter including Ajay Devgn, Madhuri Dixit, Nimrat Kaur, Manoj Bajpayee, AR Rahman, Shreya Ghoshal, Vishal Dadlani. 

In 1990, when Hindi film music was in a stage of flux, churning out just about everything, filmmaker Mahesh Bhatt’s Aashiqui woke up a melody-starved nation with gentle tunes that remain popular to this day. The soundtrack for a quaint romance between a model and a club singer sold 20 million units, turning it into the bestselling Bollywood soundtrack of all times and cementing music composer duo Nadeem-Shravan’s career in the mainstream industry.

The duo followed Aashiqui with impressive soundtracks in Saajan (1991), Dil Hai Ki Manta Nahin (1991), Sadak (1991), Phool Aur Kaante (1991), Deewana (1992), Hum Hai Rahi Pyar Ke (1993), Dilwale (1994) and Raja Hindustani (1996) among others.

Born in a musical family, Shravan’s father was Hindustani classical singer Pt Chaturbhuj Rathod and was inspired by Kalyanji-Anandji’s music as a child. His brother is popular playback singer Roop Kumar Rathod.