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Shahana Khan Khalil Shares Her Coke Studio Experience

Shahana Khan Khalil - International Production Manager for Coke Studio Season 6

Coke Studio Season 6 is going to hit the airwaves very soon!

Here is a close insight into the Studio as I recently had the chance to interact with Shahana Khan Khalil who happens to be the International Production Manager for this season of Coke Studio playing a major role in the international ride of this mega project. Apart from that she has also been the Assistant BTS Producer and the Editorial Supervisor, all making her a very pivotal person in the upbringing of Season 6.

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Noori – Aik Alif (Live at The Rock Musicarium)

Artist: Noori

Song: Aik Alif (Live)

Album: Live at The Rock Musicarium

You can get the complete album from here.

Take a listen to the amazing performance below:

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Saieen Zahoor Live in Mississauga – An Unforgettable & Astonishing Experience

The following is a guest post written by Nazeeha Khokhar (commonly known as Atiffan1), a Canadian Pakistani who has never been to Pakistan yet the number of Pakistani songs in her iPod outnumbers the number of other international songs.

Me (Nazeeha): I really wanna go see this singer live!
Indian Friend: Which singer?
Me: Uhmmm, I don’t think you know him, he’s this Pakistani singer, he’s an old man.
Indian Friend: Rahat?
Me: No! Do you know about Coke Studio?
Indian Friend: No.
Me: Okay then you don’t know him.

I knew nothing about him, I had only seen him perform in Coke Studio yet I was so excited to see him perform live in front of my eyes. I was overjoyed when my friend said that I could meet him and get a picture with him. He wore a kussa, a fancy kurta, mehndi on his fingernails, some funky jewelry and heavy kaajal in his eyes.

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3 Pakistani Songs Featured in British Film ‘West Is West’

“West Is West” is a 2010 British comedy drama film, which is a sequel to the 1999 film “East Is East”. Its predecessor East is East won on the Alexander Korda Award for Best British Film at the BAFTA Awards.

The story of the film has been written by Ayub Khan Din who is the son of a British Pakistani. It is set in a British household of mixed-ethnicity, with a Pakistani father and an English mother in Salford, Greater Manchester, and revolves around George Khan (played by Om Puri), the father is worried that his youngest son is turning his back on his Pakistani heritage, and decides to take him for a vist to Pakistan.

The soundtrack of the film features three Pakistani songs, one performed by the Pakistani playback singer Naheed Akhtar and the other two are from the second season of Coke Studio. See Details Below:

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Radiance All Over With Coke Studio 3

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Sadaf Fayyaz

Coke Studio Season 3 BannerThe coke studio season 3 is all in the air and a hot topic these days. The exciting season marks with Noori, Meesha Shafi, Karavan, Arif Lohar, Arieb Azhar, Abida Parveen, Zeb & Haniya, Saba Shabbir, Zoe Viccaji, and Sanam Saeed. Sanam and Zoe could be seen as the backing vocalists this time. Abida Parveen outshines the show with her mystical and deeply enriched style in “Ramooz-e-Ishq”. One cannot comment or critique on her performance and chic. She sounds miraculous every time.

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Koolmuzone Music Blockbusters of 2009: Top 5 Singles

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Sadaf Fayyaz


1. Tera Hone Laga Hoon (Atif Aslam OST Ajab Prem ki Ghazab Kahani)

Atif stands on the top of the charts with his song, which has Alisha Chinoi as the other vocalist. Alisha sounds intense whereas Atif stands fresh, romantic and sensual in the song with his high-pitched vocals. The remix version of the same song, after some colorful mixing, sounds a bit faster and less romantic than the original one. Nevertheless, Atif rocks in both.

2. Meri Zaat (Rahat Fateh Ali Khan OST Meri Zaat Zarra-e-Be’nishaa’n)

With this as the title song of the Geo TV’s famous drama, a novel by Umera Ahmed, Rahat comes as deep and sensual, with an Alaap in the beginning. Rahat’s precise vocals do accurate integrity with the premise of the drama and are truly heart touching. Rahat really outshines with the miraculous melody.

3. Paimoona (Zeb & Hania Coke Studio)

With tinges of Afghan and Persian music, Zeb & Hania steal the show with potent music and a luminous rubab playing in the beginning by Sadiq Sameer. They beautifully maintain the essence and glitziness of the Dari language with a stellar performance and thrilling melody. As compared with the original version, the one with coke studio is more poignant, thus remarkably capturing the right intimacy of music.

4. Aik Alif (Noori & Saieen Zahoor Coke Studio)

A brilliant fusion of pop and folk: Saieen Zahoor opens the song with his high-pitched loud vocals and does right justice with Bulleh Shah’s mystical and impressive poetic works. With a deep message of “Alif”, the verses “Ek Alif Tere Darkar” reflect deep meanings. Ali Noor comes in the middle with his accustomed sensational style and lofty vocals. Indeed a very touching and powerful rendition with harmonious melody and superlative work.

5. Daasten-e-Ishq (Ali Zafar Coke Studio)

So here comes Ali Zafar at number five with his Daastan-e-Ishq. One finds a different touch in Ali Zafar’s voice this time. The true rhythm and melody needed for a Punjabi folk, reflects here. Ali Adds more exquisiteness to the Kalam, with continuing Alaap in the beginning and towards the end too.

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Noori ft. Yasir Qureshi (ADP) – Aik Alif (Live) @ Shanaakht 09

Noori performing Aik Alif live & acoustic @ Shanaakht 09 featuring Yasir Qureshi from ADP.

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Ali Zafar – “‘Dastaan-e-Ishq’ has close to 85,000 hits on YouTube!”

SB_Ali-ZafarYouTube is no longer just a medium where artists can share their content with the rest of the world. It is also a barometer of gauging public opinion. The latest example is Coke Studio. This season, YouTube is overloaded with Coke Studio content (despite an official website) and the two songs that have garnered enormous fame include Ali Zafar‘s ‘Dastaan-e-Ishq‘ and Noori and Saieen Zahoor‘s ‘Aik Alif‘. This is not to say that the rest of the singles were ordinary. Pretty much every tune was spectacular but some were more audibly stunning than others. And the numbers keep rising according to the varied views. When these numbers reached Ali Zafar, he was ecstatic.

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Instep plays a guessing game this week, looking at how things could turn out very differently in Music & Film

What if
… Junaid Khan of Call joins EP instead while Xulfi flies solo

Junaid Khan & Xulfi

Not that we don’t appreciate Call but since their days of Bollywood, the aggression and the passion that made the rock band and its lead singer Junaid Khan stand out from their first single, ‘Nishaan’ has all but disappeared.

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Coke Studio Season 2 – Statistics & Analysis

So, the coke studio season 2 finally comes to an end. We all are going to miss the studio where the fusion happened and will desperately wait for the the third season to come (May Allah give long life to Rohail Hyatt). During the airing of the second season, we actively collected statistics and ran voting polls (10 days per poll) for each episode, so, we may figure out and also share with you the likenesses and dis likeness of the crowd about the the season.

The statistics and analysis are our own and must not be used anywhere else without prior permission. They do not represent the original statistics of the Coke Studio by the Cokestudio.com.pk