Salim–Sulaiman’s Bhoomi 2025 positions the long-running project as one of the duo’s most expansive and considered seasons to date, reinforcing its role as a platform for cultural exchange rather than a conventional album cycle.
Launched in its current format in 2020 and tracing its roots back to 1999, Bhoomi has steadily evolved into a space where Indian musical traditions intersect with contemporary global forms. The 2025 edition continues that trajectory, broadening its scope while remaining anchored in emotional clarity and craft.
This season brings together a wide-ranging lineup that spans generations and genres, including Hariharan, Shankar Mahadevan, Sonu Nigam, Shreya Ghoshal, Arijit Singh, Shaan, Papon, Paradox, Pawandeep Rajan, Parthiv Gohil, Noor Mohammad, Prithvi Gandharv, Hansika Pareek, OAFF, Burrah and Krish Mondal. The result is a deliberately fluid soundscape that moves across Indian classical and folk traditions, pop, jazz-inflected compositions, rap and devotional music without forcing genre boundaries.
Among the most widely embraced tracks from the season is Sukoon, sung by Arijit Singh, composed by Salim–Sulaiman and written by Shraddha Pandit. Restrained in arrangement yet emotionally direct, the song has travelled strongly across platforms and geographies, emerging as one of Bhoomi’s most resonant releases to date. Reflecting on its reception, Salim Merchant noted that the response reaffirmed the belief that sincerity in music carries across cultures.
Beyond individual singles, Bhoomi 2025 functions as a cohesive musical journey. Classical reverence sits alongside contemporary experimentation, regional voices are placed in global contexts, and lyric-driven intimacy balances larger ensemble moments. Shraddha Pandit, who wrote five of the ten tracks this season, describes Bhoomi as a space that allows restraint and vulnerability, giving words and melodies room to exist without urgency.
Sulaiman Merchant summarised the season as significant not only in scale, but in intent and reach, positioning Bhoomi 2025 as a reminder that music shaped with purpose can be both personal and widely relatable.
With its latest edition, Bhoomi continues to operate as more than a collaborative project. It stands as an evolving cultural movement that foregrounds India’s musical diversity while engaging confidently with a global audience, quietly asserting its place in the broader conversation around the future of Indian-origin music.
