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Hotstepper
of the week
Shehzad Roy and Ahsan Rahim
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If
one thought Shehzad Roy and Ahsan Rahim had pulled off quite the coup
with 'Laga Reh', off Shehzad's album Qismat Apney Haat Mein, they've
upped the game with the video for 'Qismat Apney Haat Mein'. The sequel
of sorts to 'Laga Reh', the video takes up from where 'Laga Reh' left
off: and it packs quite a punch! Where 'Laga Reh' ended with Shehzad
Roy being picked up in the middle of the night by 'foreign forces',
in 'Qismat..' he has shown to have been incarcerated in Guantanamo
Bay.
More relevant now than ever before, given how the reinstatement of
Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court may
lead to the 'missing persons' case being dealt with in the court of
law, 'Qismat Apney Haat Mein' is riding the wave of politically relevant
and conscious music that is reigning in Pakistan. Quite possibly the
catchiest song on Shehzad Roy's album, it gave us all a reason to
have a good chuckle at something other than Rehman Malik's statements
at a time when Pakistan needed a good laugh. The words 'Lay lee' and
their very real connotations were groundbreaking.
Qismat…' is as tongue-in-cheek and hardhitting as its predecessor,
and is really proof of director Ahsan Rahim's creative genius - and
that's why Ahsan and Shehzad are Instep's hotsteppers of the week!
And furthermore, a message to musicians who are perenially scared
of making political statements: Please don't shy away guys and girls
– it is indeed a brave new world that we all inhabit now. And
thank God for that! |
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