Qayaas – Shehrezade (Official Music Video)

Credits

Artist: Qayaas

Song: Shehrezade

Director: Omair Hyder

DOP: Luke Rocheleau

Styling: Tariq Amin/Nasir Khan

Audio Production: Khurram Waqar & Sarmad Ghafoor

Special Thanks: Dr. Hassan

Online Collaboration: Koolmuzone

Shehrezade‘ is an invocation of the evil, seemingly beautiful people (in this case a woman) are capable of. The title itself is reminiscent of classical fairy tales building to an expectation of a love ballad, only here the beauty of the name belies the darkness and torment it actually evokes. It is like the lingering shadow of a nightmare that threatens to taint reality with its virulence. ‘Shehrezade’ is not merely a name but an entity, a world where modesty and debauchery, beauty and ugliness, good and evil are all black and white. There can be no shades of gray filtered through the permissiveness of new age morality. It is a most primitive defense mechanism against the beauty in evil and the evil in beauty.

Lyrics:

Tu aur , kyun teri in nigahoon say
Jaan kay tu ,
Hai , bayhiss apni adaaoon mai

(Na Na Na Naaa
Na Na Na Na Naaa) x2

Mai aur meri behayaeee kyun
Dhoondti hai,
Teray jhootay saharoon ko

(Na Na Na Naaa
Na Na Na Na Naaa) x2

Na teri chahatoon mai
Na teri yadoon mai
Na koi mukhlasi
Jhootay saharoon mai

Kiya tum kabhi to bhool paoo gay
Haan mai ,
Jaan kay bhi ,
Perda hun teri raahoon mai

(Na Na Na Naaa
Na Na Na Na Naaa) x2

Na teri chahatoon mai
Na teri yadoon mai
Na koi mukhlasi
Jhootay saharoon mai

Yaaakh thooooooooooo!