Bollywood composer reveals using Chinese AI tool DeepSeek for music in Salman Khan’s Sikander and Supriya’s Retro

After generating buzz in the tech industry, Chinese AI app DeepSeek is now making its way into Bollywood. Music composer Santhosh Narayanan says that he used the AI tool to create music for two upcoming films—Sikandar, starring Salman Khan, and Retro, featuring Suriya. In a post on microblogging X (formerly Twitter), Narayanan shared that DeepSeek significantly reduced his workload, especially in exporting music stems.

He wrote “DeepSeek has been so good for me personally for coding in Reaper so much so it has reduced my stem export time by well over 60% for #Retro and #Sikandar . Great times ahead for AI reasoning and GenAi.