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Salim-Sulaiman on completing 30 years: We’ve just begun
duo Salim t was in 1992 when composer started working and Sulaiman Merchant Ragga Raaga. on their first album, titled three decades, Looking back at the past we have just begun. Salim tells us, “I feel like seen many changes, Over the years, we have jingles to from doing advertising songs and then background scores, film concerts and being on television, doing label.” starting our own music to the industry Sulaiman feels thankful “We started for letting them evolve: pretty early on in our lives and we never thought we’ll get to where we are. But there’s so much more to do ahead, so much more music to make and so much more to conquer.” The duo has seen success with films like Chak De! India (2007) and Band Baaja Baaraat (2010), among others. But there have also been creative their differences throughout journey. when we aren’t “There are so many times We’ve on the same page, creatively. ideas, and at that difference of opinion and says Salim. stage, music always wins,” conflicts to Sulaiman takes these creative
“Salim and I are two his stride, as he shares,
Sometimes he is sides of the same coin. and I in another, but going in one direction and that’s the creatively, it’s all beautiful magic of Salim-Sulaiman.” to Apart from their contribution brothers have Bollywood, the Merchant artistes like Lady collaborated with global Iglesias. Gaga, Fink and Enrique pride to have “It’s always a matter of your country. the opportunity to represent
Like Being Small for a We scored a track, We for the TV show, which was nominated first Indian Emmys and we were the for it,” recalls musicians to be nominated
Salim. are lots Sulaiman chimes in, “There to the of artistes who have contributed and we are proud international music scene to be a small part of it.”
IYoung actor Palak Jain is glad to have created some ripples with her work and getting attention from good banners.
“Life is not as straight as it seems for any actor. Acting appears to be a glamorous job but it’s equally taxing as any other profession that demands sweat and blood. There are no two ways to sustain, other than working extremely hard one has to constantly prove your metal as a performer. One wrong move and you go back to square one. So other than finding good work as a performer I believe in polishing my craft on the go,” says the Pyar Tune Kya Kiya and Teri Ladli Mein actor.
Hailing from Etawah, UP, Jain has been a theatre artist after completing her college in Noida, “I have always tried to learn nuances of acting and have taken about a year-long workshop of National School of Drama along with psychophysical and realistic acting classes under a well-known NSD alumnus. So, I knew if this is what I want to do then I have to ace my game by learning from the best. Then my stage shows took me to Mumbai and it was then I thought to try TV as well. I started auditioning and bagged the show Guddan Tumse Na Ho Payega followed by several commercials.”For now, Jain is busy with a TV daily, “Thankfully since the day I have landed in Mumbai good work has come to me and I am happily engaged with shows that are helping me to shape my career. After making a debut in the year 2018 to my ongoing show Jagannath Aur Purvi Ki Dosti Anokhi where I play a new age girl, it has been an experience of a lifetime. I think God has been kind and I am heading in the right direction as an actor who wishes to make it big someday.”