Greener on the other side
India has always had her arms open for our local pop musicians. After a successful launch of their debut album, Sampooran in India, the Mekaal Hasan Band is back in Pakistan and they couldn’t be more excited: their album was very well received to raving reviews and they already have a little tour scheduled in India sometime later this year.

Adding to their already busy schedule, they are also simultaneously working on finishing recording their second album at the Digital Fidelity Studios, the release of which has been eagerly anticipated for over a year now.

What is interesting to note is that other than having a lineup of well-established musicians within the band, they are also perhaps one of the very few bands in the local pop rock music industry, established after the media boom, to continue working on their music with their original band-member lineup.

lso planning a trip across the border is the Lahore-based band, Call. Having already established themselves in the Bollywood industry (although it did require them to slightly customize their music to Bollywood tastes) they will be going to Delhi somusic-box-xulfi.jpgon to shoot the video for yet another Indian movie.

he name of the movie is Asmaan and the song is called Yeh Pal. Zulfiqar Ali Khan aka Xulfi from the band has lent his vocals to this song as well, the first time being for the Indian OST of Ek Chalees Ki Last Local, the massively popular song Laree Chotee.

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October 28, 2007