Mumbai: Bollywood singer and music director Wajid khan (42) died on Monday early hour in a hospital due to complications arising from a kidney infection. He was popular as a music director duo Sajid-Wajid, the duo are brothers. Wajid khan was hospitalized a few days ago at Surana Hospital, Chembur where is condition deteriorated, the news confirmed by another music composer Salim Merchant. The duo worked for the films of super star Salman Khan’s for “Wanted”, “Dabangg,” “Ek tha Tiger”.

Salim Merchant told to the media that the music composer Wajid had multiple issues. He had a kidney issue and had a transplant a while ago. But recently he got to know about kidney infection… He was on the ventilator for the last four days, after his situation started getting worse. Kidney infection was the beginning and then he got critical.” The music composer duo made their Bollywood debut with Salman’s 1998 movie “Pyaar Kiya Toh Darna Kya” and went on to work on actor’s various films including “Garv”, “Tere Naam”, “Tumko Na Bhool Payenge”, “Partner” and the popular “Dabangg” franchise.

Wajid also did playback for Salman in chartbusters like “Mera He Jalwa”, “Fevicol Se” and for Akshay Kumar in “Chinta Ta Chita Chita” from the film “Rowdy Rathore”, among others. He recently co-composed Salman’s songs “Pyaar Karona” and “Bhai Bhai”, which the actor released on his YouTube channel. Wajid along with his brother Sajid served as mentor on singing reality shows “Sa Re Ga Ma Pa 2012” and “Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Singing Superstar”. IPL theme song “Dhoom Dhoom Dhoom Dhadaka”, which was sung by Wajid.

Many film industry personalities poured condolences on twitter by paying tributes to the demised singer-composer Wajid Khan’s family. Bollywood Actresses Priyanka Chopra , Parineeti Chopra, hero Varun Dhawan, Music Composer-singer Vishal dadlani, Shankar Mahadevan, Javed Ali.