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Nadeem Akhtar Saifi, born on 6 August 1954, is one half of Nadeem–Shravan, the composer duo that defined the sound of mainstream Hindi film music in the 1990s. He met Shravan Kumar Rathod in 1973, and after long years of struggle the pair shot to fame with Aashiqui (1990), whose soundtrack sold a reported twenty million units and remains the best-selling Bollywood album of all time. Through the decade they delivered an almost unbroken run of hit scores — Saajan (1991), Deewana (1992), Raja Hindustani (1996), Pardes (1997), Dhadkan (2000) and Raaz (2002) — built on melody-first songwriting and the signature textures of bansuri, sitar and shehnai, winning four Filmfare Awards for Best Music Director along the way. In 1997 Nadeem was named as an accused in the murder of T-Series founder Gulshan Kumar; he remained in London, where British courts rejected India's extradition request for lack of evidence, and he was ultimately exonerated. He later settled in Dubai, where he runs a perfumery business. The duo formally parted in 2005, reuniting briefly for Do Knot Disturb (2009). Nadeem then composed solo for Ishq Forever (2016) and Ek Haseena Thi Ek Deewana Tha (2017), and after Shravan's death from COVID-19 in April 2021 returned with Suneel Darshan's Andaaz 2 (2025), where he revisited his own classic in "Rabba Ishq Na Hove 2.0".