Ustaad aur Adha Marasi

This blog post is coming out because of 'The Teacher' who loves to hate the poor nasal singer, who has made it big, thanks to the popular Coke Studio, Bilal Khan, is winning hearts and/or making people wish they were deaf or even better should make their ears bleed, which surely would hurt them less.

I didn't even had the courage to put myself through the torture of listening to 'Taraay' simply because we have singers like Quaid-e-Tehreek Altaaaf Bhai in the house. Secretly I was wishing Bilal Khan to be replaced with Altaf Hussein, the legendary singer. There would have been some entertainment for the Wapda ki sataayi hoee gareeb awaam. But in 26 years of my life, I've grown to accept that not all wishes come true. Not everybody I hate dies on spot. ALAS!

Ever since Bilal Khan's Bachana came out, I've been wondering if he had these zehreeli choontiyan in chaddi (poisonous ants in his boxers) which makes him sound cringing and shrieking with pain, but still sounds to some of our very own music lovers and Coke Studio addicts like the next Alamgir. Coming to a more pressing point, why have the kunwaray naujawans started wearing clothes like they are nau-daulaati aunties jinki nawayi nawayi lottery lagi ho who love wearing banaarsi /fancy clothes all the time. Bilal Khan is one of such (aunties cum naujawaan) who looks like a Dulha apni zaati shadi mai Abdullah deewana.


Now that I have the chance I mustn't let it slip away in away. A couple of months back, Bilal Khan and Pakistan's new and modern Reshma (Hint: Humsafar singer) came out with remix and re-enactment of the ever famous Alamgir gem, deekhna na tha. Everybody on my FB friend's list to youtube feedback/comments went cuckoo over their heart touching voices. Saddens me to break this to you, but I can't even decide who was worse in that song. QB has failed to sing one single personal track of her own is surviving via covers and Bilal Khan ko tu bunda bolay bhe tu kya bolay, pighaali hoee kulfi jesa muh hai uska, uspe uski awaz, sonay pe sohaagan. Yeh dono roshan sitara nahi, toota hua tara, jo zameen pe Allah k azaab bun k girtay hein Pakistan pe.


Pakistan faces many problems, adha marasi, Coke Studio k back to back seasons mai perform kara hai, isssay bari bad-kismati yeh hai k abhi tak Malik Riaz ne Gaana nahi gaya (WHY?). I can't even express my disappointment at our reaction towards music. Our music industry was world's best, we had singers like Ustaad Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Mehdi Hassan, Malka Tarumun Noor Jehan, Alamgir, Nazia & Zohaib Hassan; Bands like Vital Signs, Junoon. People (self proclaimed singers) like Bilal Khan, Uzair Jaswal (I almost forgot Sahir Lodhi) and many others of the sort are spoiling the definition of music and wrecking the pronunciation of entire Urdu Langauge.

Allah Madad kerey apki aur apke dimagh ki agar Bilal Khan abhi bhe pasand hai apko.