JI brands ‘Pakistan Idol’ an ‘obscene’ programme

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Re: JI brands ‘Pakistan Idol’ an ‘obscene’ programme

@bella88

I haven’t been watching all the episodes but they did sing alot of pakistani songs as well. Indians also sing pakistani songs and invite pakistani musicians there all the time. so many top hit bollywood songs have been sung by pakistani singers like atif aslam, rahat fateh, amanat ali.they give so much respect and honor to nusrat fateh ali, abida parveen, and so many other legendary singers and use their songs in bollywood movies. Abida parveen has been a judge even for one of Indian singing competition shows. I remember watching indian idol few years back and many pakistani songs have been sung in Indian idol as well.
Music shouldn’t be restricted to the border and avoiding Indian music doesn’t make anyone more patriotic.

I don’t think that Indian Idol or any Indian show give coverage to Pakistani music to the extent of Pakistan Idol giving coverage to Indian songs. Abida Parveen’s being judge of an Indian contest doesn’t make that a platform for promoting Pakistani music. One or two qawwali and dhamal like ‘Laal meri pat rakhiyo Bhala’ didn’t make any difference.

I myself listen to Indian songs and I personally like Lata, Aasha and Kishor da. But when you arrange such a platform like Pakistan Idol for music, you should promote your own music more than others music. You just can’t shun your own music by saying it was not heard by young generation and music doesn’t know any borders. These very statements are behind the unawareness of our generation from our own rich music (which is now being termed as pathetic by some posters here).

Why our Radio stations stopped playing Pakistani music? Whenever you tune in to to any Radio station, you will listen Indian songs, most of the times.