After
Monali
Thakur
and
Adnan
Sami,
composer
Salim
Merchant
has
also
agreed
with
Sonu
Nigam's
claims
about
the
music
industry.
Last
week,
Sonu
Nigam
released
a
vlog
opening
up
about
the
favouritism
in
the
Music
industry.
He
asked
the
established
artists
to
be
more
kind
and
compassionate
towards
the
newcomers,
as
it
is
very
hard
to
enter
the
industry.
A
report
in
Hindustan
Times
quoted
Salim
as
saying,
"It
is
not
just
the
singers
the
composers
are
also
going
through
a
tough
time.
The
record
labels
he
is
talking
about
has
certain
music
directors
and
singers
they
work
with.
There
are
certain
artistes
they
have
signed.
There
is
definitely
that
favouritism
for
certain
artistes
and
composers,
which
these
labels
work
with."
He
also
added
that
record
labels
have
their
own
conditions
that
stop
willing
directors
and
composers
from
working
with
each
other.
"There
are
lot
of
composers
like
me,
who
don't
want
to
do
just
one
song
in
the
film.
But
there
are
others
who
are
comfortable
with
the
record
labels
terms
and
conditions
and
are
okay
to
compose
just
one
song
in
the
film.
Sonu
Nigam
has
not
said
anything
wrong.
Whatever
he
has
said
is
the
truth.
There
are
singers
who
gets
called
and
they
get
dumped
later
on.
There
are
so
many
directors
who
want
to
work
with
composers
like
ourselves,
but
when
it
reaches
the
record
labels,
they
have
their
own
conditions
and
they
feel
they
cannot
work
with
us."
Reflecting
on
Nigam's
claims
in
the
vlog,
Merchant
added
that
hampering
an
artist's
creative
process
can
"really
break
you".
Sharing
a
personal
experience,
he
says,
"Sulaiman
and
I
had
worked
on
a
project
with
a
new
director.
The
music
turned
out
so
good
that
it
helped
them
get
a
really
big
actor
on
board.
Then
they
took
it
to
a
big
production
house/record
company,
and
they
said,
'we
love
the
film,
but
please
change
the
composers.'
They
have
some
personal
vendetta
against
us,
I
don't
know
why.
It
is
about
time
that
people
find
about
it."
Recently,
Sonu
Nigam
had
warned
Bhushan
Kumar
in
another
video
against
maligning
his
name.
Bhushan
Kumar's
actress-wife
Divya
Khosla
Kumar,
called
the
singer
'thankless'
in
an
Instagram
video.