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Ali Hamza to Sing Most Songs on Noori’s 3rd Album

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Recently, the band ‘Noori‘ has entered the music scene again, with their new track, ‘Taaron se Agay‘. Even though they are trying to keep the same music-style in their upcoming album; their third album will be different and new in a way that most of the songs in the album will be sung by Ali Hamza, and not the usual vocalist and his brother, Ali Noor.

“I was losing my focus as a musician and watching Hamza and Gumby take the front seat in the next album is helping me evolve myself,” explains Noor.

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Rahat Fateh Ali Khan & Mustafa Zahid Sing for Mahesh Bhatt’s ‘Blood Money’

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Seems like the entertainment media of our neighboring country, India, the Bollywood has become quite fond of the talent found in Pakistan. May it be our actors, our singers, or music composers. Mustafa Zahid after his first big music venture with Mahesh Bhatt is 2007, has now again sung three songs for Mahesh Bhatt’s upcoming film, ‘Blood Money‘. In an interview with IANS, Zahid praises Bollywood by saying that:

“I had no difficulty working in the Indian music industry. I had my own room for creativity and all the people were very cooperative during recording of my songs.”

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Geo Films to release Ali Zafar’s ‘London, Paris, New York’

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Ali Zafar is a renowned Pakistani pop singer who gained fame in 2003 with his smashing hit “Channo” and since then there was no looking back. Zafar, now an actor as well, made his acting debut in the 2010 Indian film ‘Tere bin Laden‘  by director Abhishek Sharma – the movie which was a success both critically and commercially. After the success of this movie, and the second Bollywood film, ‘Meray Brother Ki Dulhan‘, his third film ‘London, Paris, New York‘ is to be released worldwide on the 2nd of March, 2012.

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Asad Ahmed Releasing a Solo Album

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Asad Ahmed, the guitar maestro is the founding member, of the now disbanded rock band Karavan. He has been a member of the famous pop trio Awaz, and has played with Vital Signs and Junoon. He started his career in 1987 with a band called The Barbarians. He has contributed his guitar work and compositions to albums by Ali Haider, Vital Signs, Najam Sheraz, Haroon, Rahat Fateh Ali Khan and Sajjad Ali to name a few and is now a regular guitar player in the sessions held by Coke Studio. Ahmed has also played the guitars for Ali Zafar’s upcoming film London Paris New York.

The maestro, has now chosen a path of his own and news has it that he is releasing his own solo album, which is still unnamed. The album will not entirely consist of instrumentals but will comprise of songs arranged, composed,  and produced by Ahmed himself. As he said while talking to ET:

“Guitar solos or shredding is something that I would have loved to do if I was 16 but not at this point in time.

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Bandhan, Fawad Khan’s Next Tv Series with Sarmad Khoosat

‘Humsafar,’ currently the most-watched Pakistani drama has been a super-hit with Fawad Khan as the lead male actor and Mahira Khan as the female lead, directed by an eminent director and scriptwriter, Sarmad Khoosat.

Well, the Pakistani female heart-throb, Fawad Khan, after his super-hit ‘Humsafar’ is working on a new TV serial, ‘Bandhan’ with Sarmad as the director again. The cast includes Neelam Munir, Mehreen Raheel, film actress Resham and not to forget, Fawad Khan.

Neelam Munir is another female Pakistani actress who is receiving recognition and appreciation by the audience and is getting popular.

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Fawad Khan Endorses Telenor TalkShawk

Well, well, well. Look who’s gotten hold and made use of a great opportunity – Telenor. The recent advertisement for Telenor TalkShawk shows Fawad Khan (yes, the recent heartthrob of the Pakistani women) as the ambassador for TalkShawk. Fawad Khan’s become quite a star due to his recent work in a couple of television serials, specially ‘Humsafar‘.

Fawad Afzal Khan is known as a renowned Pakistani actor, singer and a model. He started his acting career by working in a comedy serial ‘Jutt and Bond’ and found fame at quite an early age – 22 years. This was the time when Fawad Khan and his friend Ahmed Ali Butt (also his co-star in the serial) started their band, EP (Entity Paradigm) but it was in the year 2002 when the band had it’s first performance, live, at the Race Course Park Lahore. Even after forming the band, Khan continued acting in various serials such as ‘Dil Dey Kay Jayein Gey’ (2000), ‘Satrangi’ (2008), ‘Jeevan Ki Rahoon Mei’ (2009), ‘Daastaan‘ (2010), ‘Akbari Asghari’ (2010), and the most watched ‘Humsafar’ (2011).

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Sur Kshetra and the Controversies Attached to It

There have been quite a lot of controversies about the upcoming television show Sur Kshetra also known as Sur Ki Baazi in Pakistan even before the show has actually begun. The recent one being about what seem to be “fake auditions” as held by Geo TV.

I think Geo is becoming a disliked TV channel. First because the way it sensationalizes news and now what seems to be a scam as money has been raised by the channel for what hasn’t been delivered.

The promos of “Sur Ki Baazi” were aired very enthusiastically on GEO TV catching the attention of many people who wanted a platform and a chance to sing and prove their skills. But according to a source who made it to both the auditions (yes there were two of them), the auditions which were to be held on the 17th and 18th of January according to the promos, were actually fake as the real auditions were held early at Planet X in Islamabad.

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Abrar-ul-Haq is Offered a Film Opposite Katrina Kaif

Recently Shoaib Mansoor‘s movie, ‘Bol‘ a super-hit, and well received by the Pakistani audience was released in India with the collaboration of EROS Entertainment. We’re seeing a lot of Pakistani-Indian artists’ getting together in music, and movie collaborations. We just saw Ali Zafar with Katrina Kaif in ‘Mere Brother Ki Dulhan‘ starring Imran Khan as well. All the hoopla had not even died yet and we see another surprising news – the holder of the PTV’s best pop singer for six years, Abrar-ul-Haq being offered to work against Katrina Kaif in a movie.

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