Salim and Sulaiman Merchant to launch the music band competition at Mood Indigo 2012

Music director duo, brothers Salim and Sulaiman Merchant will be launching the music band competition at Mood Indigo 2012. And while the finalists of this competition will get an opportunity to visit their studio and interact with them, the winner will get a once-in-a- lifetime chance to record music for a feature film and work with them.
On December 23, the Merchant brothers will also give performance.They plan to perform their poplar Bollywood numbers at the concert.
Sons of composer and veteran of the Telugu film industry in South India, Sadruddin Merchant, while Salim mastered the piano at the Trinity College of Music in London while Sulaiman took up tabla training with such legends as Taufiq Qureshi and Ustad Zakir Hussain, according to their Wikipedia profile. Salim and Sulaiman have been composing music for over a decade having scored for movies such as Neal 'n' Nikki, Chak De! India, Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi and Fashion.
They emerged as popular music directors only in 2003, six years after their first music composition in a Bollywood film. They received recognition with their award-winning performance for their music in Bhoot, in which the music was a very influential and significant aspect of the movie. Their music in the award-winning movie Iqbal earned them rave accolades.