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Shravan Rathod

Other names of Shravan Rathod: Shravan
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Shravan Rathod is a well-known music composer and is a member of the famous duo of music directors Nadeem - Shravan. Shravan is known to be one of the innovators of Hindustani music and his works, along with Nadeem Saifi Nadeem Saifi is one of the musical composers from >> Read More... , are considered to be one of the most professional works in the whole Bollywood industry. This musical duo was at their peak during the 90s and the 2000s. The duo's specialty is that all of their works have done majorly using three particular Hindustani instruments, namely, the shehnai, the sitar, and the bansuri. 

Shravan’s works with Nadeem are considered to be one of the best, and they’ve often featured particular playback singers from the Bollywood industry. Some of the most repeatedly featured are Kavita Krishnamurthy Kavita Krishnamurthy is the female playback singer >> Read More... , SP Balasubramanyam, Pankaj Udhas The King of Ghazals, Pankaj Udhas was born on 17th >> Read More... , KS Chitra, Alka Yagnik Alka Yagnik is a very popular playback singer of t >> Read More... , Kumar Sanu Having chaired over 17,000 songs in the last 27 ye >> Read More... , Udit Narayan One of the famous playback singers of Indian Film >> Read More... , Sonu Nigam Sonu Nigam is a renowned Bollywood singer and comp >> Read More... , KK, Shankar Mahadevan Shankar Mahadevan, a well-renowned, talented and f >> Read More... , Shaan, Roop Kumar Rathod Roop Kumar Rathod is a trained classical playback >> Read More... and Vinod Rathod Music is a gift of god. It is said, a melodious s >> Read More... . His siblings, Vinod Rathod and Roop Kumar Rathod, are popularly known for their works in the Bollywood music industry. 

Shravan worked with Nadeem to give music to several movies such as Aashiqui in 1990, Deewana in 1992, Hum Hain Rahi Pyar Ke in 1993, Agni Sakshi in 1996, Pardes in 1997, Raaz in 2002, Andaaz in 2003, Bewafaa in 2005, etc. Shravan, along with Nadeem, won a row of awards for their works, including the Filmfare Award for Best Music Direction three years consecutively from 1991 to 1993 and later in the year 1997. The duo has also received The Star Screen Awards in 1997 and 1998 and later in 2003, the Zee Cine Awards. 

Shravan had decided in the year 2005 that he would retire from his musical career and thereby putting an end to an era of musical partnership. Shravan had retired from mainstream music composition and had moved to teach and dedicated all his time to training his children, Darshan and Sanjeev Rathod Sanjeev Rathod is a famous music director. He is p >> Read More... .

 

Another Version of this Bio…

Born on 13th November 1951, Shravan Rathod is a renowned singer, composer, and Indian musician of the 1980s and 1990s. He is the brother of the playback singers Roop Kumar Rathod and Vinod Rathod. His father was Pandit Chaturbhuj Rathod, who was a celebrated classical musician of Drupaad Dhamaad. During his childhood, he had attended a recording of Kalyanji-Anandji, which had inspired him to become a music composer later in his life. He learned tabla when he was only five years of age and at the age of 7, he began giving live performances.

Shravan Rathod paired with Nadeem Saifi, and the duo came to be known as Nadeem-Shravan. Their association commenced in the year 1972. The first composition by Nadeem-Shravan was for the Bhojpuri movie called Dangal released in the year 1979 in which Manna Dey Manna Dey is one of the greatest Indian classical >> Read More... had done the playback singing. Their first Hindi movie was Maine Jeena Seekh Liya, which was produced by Bhisham Kohli, for which Shravan was awarded as the best upcoming music director by the Vice President. They composed the music of all types ranging from peppy numbers to dance tracks to emotional music.  Though the 1980s was the era of action movies, they specialized in and were most known for their musical melodies, which were inspired by the ghazals of old times.

They had also composed music in 1985 for a commercial project called Star Ten. Their compositions mostly relied on bansuri, the sitar and the shehnai. Aashiqui has also rated the 4th best soundtrack ever by Planet Bollywood on their ‘100 greatest Bollywood soundtracks’.

The duo of Shravan Rathod and Nadeem Safi finally split in 2005 after which Rathod focused on his son’s career and movie productions.

After their split, Shravan and Nadeem rejoined again in 2009 with Do Knot Disturb directed by David Dhawan Born on 16th of August 1955, David Dhawan has alwa >> Read More... featuring “ Govinda Govinda is a popular Bollywood star who is known f >> Read More... ” and Riteish Deshmukh Riteish Deshmukh is the son of a politician, late >> Read More... . Then they didn’t do any films together. But, Nadeem composed music for a couple of films as a solo music director. Then, it was announced that Nadeem and Shravan are making their comeback with Kumar Sanu in 2021-2022. But in 2021, Shravan suffered some health complications, including diabetes. He was admitted to SL Raheja hospital in Mumbai after he was tested positive for Covid-19. His health got deteriorated. His lungs were infected and he developed heart problems too. Following this, he was put on a ventilator. But, his body could not respond to the treatment and he died on 22nd April 2021 at the age of 66. Sanjeev Rathod, the son of Shravan, confirmed his death.

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