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Sunday, May 29th, 2011 by

Atif Aslam’s top five love songs

It was back in 2004 when he came, he sang and he conquered! Atif Aslam took pop music in Pakistan to a whole new level. I remember how people went crazy over his music and him back then and his fans are equally enthusiastic about him today. His albums are …

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Friday, December 24th, 2010 by

Five favorite ghost songs from Indian/Pakistani Films

Here are my five favorite ghost songs from Indian/Pakistani films in no particular order. 1. Jhoom Jhoom dhalti raat (Lata Mangeshkar) Kohraa (1964) featured the ethereal Waheeda Rehman as the mysterious rake Biswajeet’s second wife who’s haunted by his dead wife. Based on Alfred Hitchcock’s Rebecca (1940), the chilling ambience …

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Saturday, December 18th, 2010 by

Top 5 break-up songs

‘I Will Survive’ – Gloria Gaynor Here’s perhaps the best break up song of all time; anyone who has been dumped and then had their lover return to them after months are bound to connect with this classic break-up song! It’s one of the most popular songs and almost everyone …

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Sunday, October 24th, 2010 by

“I believe in Popular Film Music..” Shaukat Dehalvi Nashad

Although no one says it to my face, I know that there is a section in the film industry who decry my music as “a   re-hash of familiar tunes.” This amounts to a charge of plagiarism. I have no defense, no apology, to offer, except to say that, if am …

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Sunday, September 5th, 2010 by

Ghazal

This is a form of light Hindustani vocal music the song texts of which are entirely in Urdu. Ghazals are extremely popular and their poetical content is important. There is, however, a tradition that the ghazals should be usually based on ragas. One remarkable exponent of the traditional style of …

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