JI brands ‘Pakistan Idol’ an ‘obscene’ programme

[bella88]

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

@muqawwee123

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.

I do agree that we SHOULD promote our music. I think coke studio does that beautifully in a way that appeals to younger population. Indias music and media industry is much bigger than ours. So its quite natural to sing their songs as they literally have millions of songs which cover many different genre and themes so the contestants can show how they can sing different kinds of songs. Pakistani music industry should also be promoted, but Indians do invite pakistani singers to sing over there (even though their music industry is much bigger than ours) because they appreciate our talent and recognize it.
And yes our radio stations should play pakistani music aswell. I listen mainly to pakistani music. IMO, no indian singer comes close to pakistani legendary singers like nusrat fateh ali, and abida parveen. As i mentioned, i haven’t seen every single episode but the ones i saw, there were many pakistani songs being sung as well.