My Take on Veena Malik
24 Mar 2012 3 Comments
in music
I have been thinking to write on this topic for a long time but I couldn’t decide whether I should do it or not. Now finally I have made up my mind and I’m going to give my perspective on the Queen of Controversy aka Veena Malik.
She had been making headlines in the past few months with her bold photo shoots, item song etc etc. Unlike most regular Pakistanis, my issue with her was not about her posing nude for a magazine, but it was the fact that she can do anything for publicity. For some reason I don’t find it respectful that you can go to any extent just to get publicized and just to stay in the news. I have seen many Pakistani models on runway and in magazines doing very bold shoots, maybe not as bold as posing nude but still they were quite daring for a Pakistani but honestly those models had a class. They were not as attention begging as Veena Malik. I’ve seen their interviews and man, they are classy.
On the other hand when I saw the videos of Veena Malik on her official YouTube channel, pardon me for saying that but she sounded like a complete douchebag and seemed very fake in her videos. Some of them are totally pointless, and others are filled with self-praise. I know that many celebrities make Vlogs and I don’t necessarily like them but at least for the most part they sound real not fake or scripted, she doesn’t. I have also seen some of her interviews and she sounded fake in them too.
I also watched some parts of Bigg Boss and I saw the same “classless” Veena. She is a celebrity, and that show was supposed to be aired on TV she should have acted like a more graceful human being. But I guess she showed her true personality in that show. Her image in my eyes was further degraded when she did that whole “drama” of disappearance and it turned out that she was “resting” in her hotel room. I want to LOL real bad on it that how far someone can go for cheap publicity.
I saw many liberals defending her and it surprised me that they were defending a woman just because she did something that would piss off Mullahs? Is that really enough to praise someone? I don’t know about them but for me a celebrity’s ‘personality’ matters too. I don’t think that she insulted Pakistan by posing nude, but I do think that her personality and her actions and her desperation to get famous and get work in Bollywood might hurt the image of Pakistan. I used to like her as an actress, dancer and an impersonator but I’m not sure if I will be able to respect her work the way I used to.
03 Dec 2011 Leave a Comment
in music
So i was too lazy plus busy to write a blog today, but wanted to do something so thought why not post some of my very favorite songs. So here you go..
So this first one named Malhaar which might be unknown to some unlucky people but is worth listening.
This second song by Fuzon is also not very popular but is an amazing piece of music. I consider myself lucky that i am well aware of Shafqat’s music.
My list of songs would be incomplete if i don’t include any vital signs songs.
This song might be familiar to those who have listened to old Pakistani music. Fariha Pervez has absolutely excelled in it that in fact i like it better than the original song.
Paikar, finally a new song by Sajjad Ali absolutely loved it. Though its persian but it kind of sounds more like Punjabi (just saying) but is still beautiful.
So my list of songs might seem awkward to some people but that’s my taste sir. I jump from old to new and new to old, from hip hop to classical and the other way around. Anyways that’s it for today.
Pakistani atheists being a drama queen
19 Nov 2011 10 Comments
in Eid ul Azha Tags: animal slaughter, Eid ul Azha, Islam, Pakistani atheists
A very interesting thing I noticed this year on Eid ul Azha was Pakistani atheists crying about the bloodshed and ‘barbaric’ slaughter of animals. The first thought that came to my mind was that, are they vegetarians? If not then what’s the point of blaming this occasion alone for animal slaughter? Aren’t animals slaughtered and then consumed generally worldwide? And how do they feel when they are eating chicken, beef or any other sort of meat which is apparently obtained after SLAUGHTERING an animal. Or is it just another reason to insult Islam? Even more interesting fact was that MOST OF THEM (on twitter/Facebook) were crying about this same issue, probably none of them either tried to think unbiased or, were purposely trying to slander Islam.
Everyday thousands of animals are slaughtered and then consumed all over the world. So why specifically are they pointing out Eid ul Azha? I saw some of them saying that animals are killed openly on streets or slaughter houses so that’s heart breaking. But if they don’t want to see it, why can’t they just stay at home and not see it happening. I personally have never seen Qurbani happening because I can’t see an animal die that’s why I prefer not to see it, and as a result I am not disturbed by this whole thing. I am a meat eater but thankfully not a hypocrite who eats meat normally not thinking about how this animal died for me to eat, but cry for animals dying on Eid ul Azha just because it’s a muslim ritual.
I briefly talked to one of the atheists after I saw him saying that Hajj is a barbaric ritual, I asked him, why he thinks like that? He said: “To kill an animal for the pleasure of who… Allah”. I thought don’t we kill and eat animals for our own pleasure? i said to him that if you are a vegetarian then i can understand your sentiments about animals otherwise don’t people eat meat of a slaughtered animal normally? If u have sympathy with animals then talk in general, muslim/non-muslim they all eat meat then why blame hajj 4 slaughtering animals? He didn’t reply to me because apparently he didn’t have an explanation to give. His job of bashing Islam was done and nothing more was left to clarify.
I am personally not against atheists and I am all for humanity and equality, but their false Drama Queen Type arguments enrage me. These type of people are an atheist version of Jamat-e-islami, to me they are no less than Drama Queen Mullahs who blame everything on Jews, Hindus etc. hypocritically. I just want to say to them that, next time guys if you want to argue against Islam come up with something more “intelligent” and not something stupid like “well slaughtering an animal normally is okay, but on a muslim occasion… it is very barbaric”.
Decline of music in the land of pure
08 Sep 2011 Leave a Comment
I often think, what’s going to happen to the music industry in Pakistan? The same thing that happened to the film industry? will our music die that badly? People often say we have great singers, voices, talent and everything, but still why is our talent being wasted or exported to India? Why don’t we hear those mesmerizing voices any more that we used to hear in 1990s and afterwards? where have they all gone? you know what many of them are still there but its us who have moved on and stopped valuing those voices and musicians that we used to love.
We are the ones who reject our singers and mostly listen to indian music. When our singers sing here, we never pay attention to them but when the same singers go to india we start listening to them. Adnan Sami, Rahat Fateh Ali Khan, Shiraz Uppal, Adeel Chaudhry and many others were not recognized in Pakistan as much until they went to India. I specifically want to go into details about Rahat Fateh Ali Khan that when he was making music in Pakistan for a long time nobody even knew him, his song “laagi tum se man ki lagan” was i believe a Pakistani song and it was not recognized in Pakistan until its appearance in an Indian movie. Same goes for Shiraz Uppal, he was also not known as much until he sung “Roya Re” for an indian movie, although i think he made better songs in Pakistan than Roya Re which people probably don’t even know. Now who to blame for all this? All these are singers and their job is to make music for us and they are doing their job, but what are we doing for them? They can’t even have concerts in Pakistan mainly due to terrorism and extremism, when they make videos we hardly notice them. Coke studio is the only show that is completely Pakistani and is thankfully recognized in Pakistan, but the question is that can this one show save our music industry? Recently a rock band Aunty Disco Project aka ADP has broken up and one of their members has also stated the same problem that there is no support for musicians or a rock band in Pakistan and so the future of music in Pakistan is really at stake. Alone coke studio can’t save it in here.
Sajjad Ali, the famous pop singer has also moved to Dubai because of the same reasons. He says that he has made 70+ songs that are ready to be released but he is not going to release them because he thinks that there is no point of investing in something that is not going to give you anything back. Singers will go to India and other places if they are not given work or getting recognition in Pakistan and they are not the ones to be blamed. if they are not getting work in Pakistan they will find other places where they will be given work. Now personally as being a fan of Sajjad Ali i want to ask the masses (and especially those who criticize our singers that go to india), that was Sajjad Ali given enough recognition in Pakistan as much as he deserved? Absolutely not. Many people in Pakistan don’t know about his classic songs.
Another point i want to add is about our radio stations, they play indian songs, whether old or new, whether from 90s or 80s or older but they never credit Pakistani songs from the same old era. Rjs who play old songs hardly ever play Mehdi hasan, Amanat ali, Ghulam Ali, Mujeeb Alam, Ahmed Rushdi or any other Pakistani old classic singers. All they play is Lata, Asha, rafi, kishor etc. When will they get over with their Indian music obsession? People say that Pakistan music industry is down and very few good songs are being made but what about the old classic ones? Do you ever play them or bother to listen to them? No.
Its time that we should credit our music and not let it die like our film industry, we should bring our singers back and make them play music in Pakistan for Pakistan. Audience should demand for that otherwise they should not complain from their singers going to India in search of work. We should bring Sajjad Ali, Haroon, Fakhir, Hadiqa, Strings and others back to the music scene, by demanding it through TV channels and radio stations.
I have a question…
19 Aug 2011 4 Comments
in karachi Tags: karachi, violence
I have a question for Mr. Imran Khan and all his supporters, where is your dharna for burning, dying, bleeding Karachi? Where are you right now? You are always very active when there is an “American Drone Attack” on Pakistan which according to your supporters is the biggest threat to Pakistan. How about that your own countrymen killing their fellow countrymen? Or do you think that it is not a threat to your country and its people. So it’s okay if Pakistanis being killed by other Pakistanis, on the basis of language, ethnicity etc. But it is very brutal of America if it kills our countrymen who are often militants.
I also have a question for Mr. Zaid Hamid as he usually accuse Hindu, Zionists, American agents for destruction of Pakistan and says that “outside forces” are involved in chaos of Pakistan. Now can he answer me which Hindu, Zionist, Americans are destroying Karachi? Can he disclose some of the information about those Hindu, zion, American target killers who are killing people for being baloch, mohajir, or pashtoon?
Also I have a question for all the Talibans their supporters/apologists, hamid gul, jamat-e-islami, lashkar-e-taiba, sipah-e-sahaba, Al-Qaida, haqqani network, tehreek-e-taliban Pakistan, 313 brigade and other countless “jihadi” organizations that you hate America, you hate India for Kashmir, you hate Israel for Palestine and you have declared jihad against all of them. Now look inside your own country or brother muslim country where your own MUSLIM brothers are murdering each other on the basis of language, ethnicity etc. now where is your so called jihad? Recently Al-Qaida chief Ayman Al Zawahiri has said that all muslims should “avenge” against America, for the murder of “Imam of Mujahedeen” Osama bin laden. Now what does he has to say about those innocent lives being taken every day by his “muslim” brothers. The same al-Qaida took the avenge from Pakistan army by killing 80 young Pakistan army cadets on the third day of osama bin lden’s death. What did those young souls do to Osama? And after that they attacked on PNS base Mehran Karachi because Pakistan navy arrested some al-Qaida related people (refer to late saleem shahzad’s article on PNS mehran base after which he got kidnapped and then murdered). Where is your jihad right now? Who will rescue your muslim brothers in Karachi from other muslims.
Now I have a question for those Pakistanis who believe that “no muslim can kill other muslim”. That is what I hear from some of my friends and other people especially when someone carries out a suicide attack on a mosque or any other place. Now if a muslim can’t carry out a suicide attack than how does he cut someone’s neck, torture someone’s body and throw it away in a bag somewhere just on the basis of language, creed, ethnicity? Also 5857 people can gather to sing national anthem but can’t do a protest against mass murder of innocent people?
In the end I will just say, stop dreaming Pakistan, it’s time to wake up. Stop praying, it’s time to move remember prayers can’t be answered without effort. Allah will never listen to you until you try. The Egyptian revolution took place this year, in a matter of a few days, you know how? Through social networking websites, primarily facebook. If you can’t do anything at least you can protest, somehow. That’s the least you can do. Islamabad has taken an initiative for Karachi and has done a peaceful demonstration on August 19, 2011 over Karachi violence. I appeal to Karachi and other cities of Pakistan to at least speak against brutality, remember that hadees that If you see anything evil stop it with your hand if you can’t stop it with your hand stop it you’re your tongue if you can’t stop it with your tongue than at least curse it in your heart.
Also I appeal karachiites to donate blood to the hospitals and involve in volunteer efforts as injured people and dead bodies are still being received by hospitals in a greater numbers. So please go out and help them. I guess we will all have to answer Allah for this brutality, Allah will question all of us that where were we when our own people were getting killed. Also some people discriminate on the basis of religion and don’t help, their fellow Christians and Hindus when they are in trouble and needs to be taken to the hospital, remember Allah says “a murder of one human being is equal to the murder of whole humanity”. So in this way all human lives are precious, don’t discriminate.
