*Dont have the link but its from an editor at dailytimes or something… *
Well well, crooner Junaid Jamshed, is nowadays making headlines for all the wrong reasons. First of all he went headlong into religion and sported a beard. Then all of a sudden the beard came off when Shoaib Mansoor, his godfather and mentor, asked him to play the lead role in what Shoaib Mansoor claims to be his magnus opus called Khuda Kay liyay. Junaid was looking all trendy and ready to play the lead role when he got a few calls from religious parties threatening him. He backtracked and was out of the movie in no time leaving Shoaib Mansoor in a fix.
Well then Junaid decided to try and be very very clever and said in all the interviews he gave that “Kurta hamara kaumi libaz hai” and “ Hum sub ka farz hai kay hum kurtay paanay” Qaumi Farz!!!
How come the sudden love for our national dress had awoken in Junaid. The answer was simple; because he was busy opening outlets of Junaid’s Kurta Korner in Lahore and Isloo and not to mention the successful store he runs in Karachi. When they play the guitar and sing we love them its when they become pseudo that we get irritated. Boy o boy this singing tableeghi is one thorough salesman.
Well coming back to Shoaib Mansoor’s magnus opus “Khuda kay liye” it has one thing in common and that is all the male actors leaving the film. First Junaid signed up and then ran away, then Ali zafar also joined and yeah you guessed it ran away. Now rumours have it that Shoaib Mansoor has approached Fawad of Ep. We just hope that in the end Shoaib Mansoor won’t be saying Khuda Ke Liyay merei film main koyi acting karlain. hahahahahahhahahahaha
ALI SHER- PAPA BOYS
This guy doesn’t know when to quit and he is burning a hole in his father’s pocket trying to be a pop star. Whenever you turn on some local music channel watch for a little while and you are sure to see Mr Ali Sher dancing, running, riding a top a donkey cart and trying to act(the lad tries to act like a lover with a broken heart, but ends up beautifully depicting a lover with a spoilt stomach). Now catch a load of this, Ali Sher has only one album in the market titled Tann Mann Dhaan, an album that was a super flop, out of which he has released 8 videos!!! Jeeez 8 videos!!! Guess he really gave his tann mann dhan in making the videos, especially the dhann. Now there’s one thing common in all his videos and that is they are directed by Jawad Bashir. Yup well, what Ali doesn’t know is that as long as he keeps pumping in his father’s money, Jawad will keep directing. In fact Jawad Bashir to make Ali Sher happy used Ali as a model in one of his videos hahahahahahahahaha Boy o boy , this guy has to learn that just making videos doesn’t make an artist successful , the songs have to be good too.
POP DIVAS???/
These days are rather sad for the local pop as we don’t seem to have a diva that can match the type of work that Nazia and then latter Hadiqua did. We do have a few but the the less said about them the better. The first is Rabi Peerzada who is leaving no stone unturned to get a permanent place in Pakistan pop’s hall of shame (other proud residents are singers like Scharique Roomi, Shahzada Faisal and Shahida Mini) by singing some of the most moribund songs one can ever listen to. One of her songs has lyrics that go like this “ Bye bye Oh guy”( I swear I didn’t make this up myself). The video saw her with pony tails trying to be the seductive schoolgirl ala Lolita but really only looked like a retarded twenty something year old. Then there’s Abeer who started out with a song that went like this” Mahi ve chan ve teri nall sada taan maan ve!!!’ Now Abeer has gone all gothic and is trying out hard rock. Well her new video sees her head banging a top a heavy bike surrounded by male dancers. The video is three minutes long but it takes at least five to recover from the shock.
AGING DISGRACEFULLY
Recently a few of our famous personalities have been dressing up in weird ways. First of all Bushra Anasari, yes the Bushra Ansari famous tv personality. She came on tv to give an interview in a blue stripped Sleeveless shirt and below she wore something that looked like trousers but was cut below the knees.( I don’t know what her designer called it but in Punjabi its called the Katcha). What was she thinking I mean if you wanna show skin then have figure to go along with it. I mean Bushra is like pushing forty something and here she is on Tv in a hybrid between a shorts and a trouser. God don’t people look in the mirror.
AMMAR SOMETHING ORIGINAL YAAR
Ammar Bilal is our very own stylish man around town. His diverse interests lie in everything from designing clothes, karate to songwriting. Ammar, the creator of ABCD, first ventured into music when he wrote and directed a musical called Satori that starred Aaminah Haq (Ammar’s friend/girlfriend/bestfriend/mate/co-director/leading lady). The musical had aminah sword fighting and kickboxing to strange oriental pop which Ammar had some musicians compose. Now Ammar has come up with something new. He seems to have forgotten kicks and sword fights and has now written an English rock song “My favorite dream” which will help sell his jeans ( errrrr…. that’s what he says). The song has models doing imitations of an angst ridden eighties rock band ala Kiss. In all fairness the song is good. After all with Mekaal Hassan and Gumby playing on it the song comes across as a very catchy pop rock number.
Well both Favourite dream and Satori have been done well but the sad fact is neither are original ideas. Both are simple rip offs. While Satori is a copy of different images from martial arts movies and has the old story of a student avenging her master’s death ( lifted from Kill Bill as well as being a story every martial arts film has, Favorite dream is just simply imitating a period of western rock history. One does hope that Ammar comes up with original ideas for his next campaign and not ones that look like reruns of foreign entertainment.