India, July 9 -- Composer and singer Amaal Mallik recently shed light on the often-overlooked struggles of musicians in Bollywood. Speaking to Mirchi Plus, he shared that while Shah Rukh Khan takes a hands-off approach and lets the director lead the musical vision, stars like Akshay Kumar and Salman Khan are more hands-on, actively participating in the music-making process.

"With senior actors, it's easy because they know what music works on them. Shah Rukh gets less involved in music. He leaves it to the director, who sirf sunte hain thoda (he just listens briefly). Akshay sir 100% mehnat karte hain apne music par (Akshay sir puts 100% effort into his music). Salman Khan too. But with Akshay, there's an understanding to experiment; he i...