tajdar e haram ho nigahe karam amjad sabri

Unlike many, Amjad likened the notion that Pakistani musicians of the day have begun drawing inspiration from the past, but feared commercial motives will stifle creative freedom.

“Strings should have ensured the particularities of qawwali singing remain intact.” The element of nostalgia is vivid.” The Sabri scion said what has continuously attracted the masses towards his father’s works is his uncompromising emphasis on fundamentals. “After every decade or so, the audience yearns for music created in the past. ”ĭespite this, he proclaimed his father would be happy seeing the new generation own his message and propagate it. This is how particular he was about the modalities of reciting his kalaams. My recital had fallen on his ears, thanks to the loudspeaker. I couldn’t figure out why he was doing that until he said, ‘There is something wrong with your lungs. He took a pause and went on to say, “With no forewarning, he beat me to a pulp. I hurried home and found out that abbajee was already up.”Ītif performing the song at Coke Studio 8 I had stayed up all night to practice and was more than confident. “Everyone present there knew my father, so they all made way for me when it was my turn on the pulpit. It was a ritual to let children recite eulogies after the congregational prayers,” he shared.

“It was Friday afternoon and I was waiting for my turn on the microphone at the mosque in our neighbourhood in Lalukhet. “As long as the essence remains untouched, there is no harm.”īut as he commented on how far one should go to revitalise a classic, he reminisced about how pivotal it was for his abbajee to pay attention to detail. I wish he could have worked on his diction a little more,” he maintained, adding that spinning around the original poetry was also not one of the best ideas.Īmjad was of the view that there is no harm in changing any form of classical music, particularly qawwali, according to modern needs. “I really like how the music was arranged. While Atif received flak over his rather flippant attempt at the classic, Amjad isn’t entirely unimpressed. Up until now, the track has racked up over 2.5 million plays across different internet platforms within days. “The people behind Coke Studio sought my permission to pay tribute to abbajee’s kalaam,” he said. Who better than renowned qawwal Amjad Fareed Sabri, the flag-bearer of the Sabri clan, to comment on the recent reproduction of his father Ghulam Fareed Sabri and uncle Maqbool Ahmed Sabri’s iconic works for mass consumption? In its first episode of season 8, Coke Studio featured Atif Aslam ‘revisiting’ the magnum opus of Sabri brothers Tajdare Haram as an accolade to the duo.

Tajdar e haram ho nigahe karam amjad sabri