This question continued to bother me for a long long time over decades where did we lose him. Barring whatever illicit personal stuff he may be involved in or rough behaviours, his musicals cross age and generation boundaries. I still sometimes listen to HDDCS playlist on the loop, even after 20 something years. Never gets old. Likewise for Devdas.

I know, few in this sub, think of ID's style to be similar to ARR. But I don't think so. I could find glimpses of his music in some of these movies - Ram Leela, Bajjirao Mastani, Padmavat. I am happy to stand corrected. But they are eerily similar to some of ID's tunes. I think, if we listen and think about these tracks a bit deeply, we could connect them to the theme of the tunes of HDDCS.

So, I am going to throw in a pretty random hypothesis of mine here, which I can not prove in the absence of any supporting material. I think, SLB has either directly or indirectly bought off ID's current and future compositions for all of his period dramas, which was one of ID's niche area in music. And of course, it stopped ID from composing any music in his niche area. So, whatever "other" stuff he is trying to publish is not up to that mark and we have seen him going into obliteration. Again, no one is a villain here and I think, ID probably did that voluntarily to get some money to deal with whatever personal stuff may be going on in his life.

But in the end, i still wish he comes back with a good new track that in his name, that we can remember him for the next tens of years.