Wajid Khan passes away: Amitabh Bachchan 'shocked', pays respects with heartwarming note

The death of Wajid Khan late on Sunday came as a shock to his fans, family and celebrities from the film industry. Tributes poured in for the singer-music composer, with actors, singers, music composers and filmmakers expressing their grief and conveying their condolences and prayers to the family. Amitabh Bachchan also mourned the loss of the musician with a heartfelt note.

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Amitabh Bachchan wrote that he was ‘shocked’ on hearing the news of Wajid’s demise and called him a ‘bright smiling talent.’ Big B expressed his solidarity with Wajid's family and well-wishers, and sent his blessings, prayers and condolences to his family.

Here’s the post 

T 3548 - Shocked at the passing of Wajid Khan .. a bright smiling talent passes away .. duas , prayers and in condolence 🙏🙏🙏

— Amitabh Bachchan (@SrBachchan)

Wajid, who was a part of the duo Sajid-Wajid, with his brother, had composed music for the Amitabh Bachchan’s film God Tussi Great Ho, that had also starred Salman Khan in 2008.

Priyanka Chopra, Varun Dhawan, Parineeti Chopra and many others from the film industry also mourned the loss of Wajid.

As per reports, Wajid passed away at the Surana Hospital in Mumbai's Chembur. He was 42. It was reported that he was suffering from COVID-19 complications, and some celebrities close to him, allegedly confirmed it in some reports. However, as per singer-music composer Salim Merchant, he was facing issues due to kidney-related ailments. 

“He 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,” Salim was quoted as saying by PTI .

Sajid-Wajid had composed hits, mainly for Salman Khan’s films after making their debut with Pyaar Kiya Toh Darna Kya in 1998. They delivered chartbusters galore in albums like Partner, Dabangg franchise, Wanted, Ek Tha Tiger, apart from other popular albums like Main Tera Hero, Rowdy Rathore and more. Their last major album was Dabangg 3 that had released in December.

Wajid also sang many of these hits like Mashallah, Jalwa, Tujhe Aksa Beach Ghuma Doon and Do You Wanna Partner.

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