After winning two awards this year for the ‘Best Playback Singer’, Rahat Fateh Ali Khan has now bagged the same category award for his popular song “Dil Toh Baccha Hai Jee” at the 56th Filmfare Awards held on the 29th January 2011, at Yashraj Studios, Mumbai. The Filmfare Awards have been a tribute to the grandeur and excellence of Indian cinema, and they continue to be the most awaited celebration of Hindi film industry. This time Rahat is not the only Pakistani singer nominated; Shafqat Amanat Ali and Adnan Sami …

Fuzon is riding the high wave. They have just bagged the Indus Music ‘Best Composer’ and ‘Best Ballad Song’ awards. The band takes time out to share their views with world Music Chief Editor ARSHAD MAHMUD and his team in this wide-ranging interview.

Arshad Mahmud: One remembers watching each one of your working independently. What brought you together as a band?
Shallum: I and Imran had been working together for about eight years. We live in the same vicinity in PECHS – and we knew each other very well. Immu also used …

Moving Closer, a 40-minute documentary by Serendip Productions, was screened at Alhamra Hall-II.
The documentary will also be shown in Bombay and Delhi and later screened on Pakistan Televison, Star Plus and Doordarshan.
Moving Closer is about Indian actress Urmila Matondkar and director Prahlad Kakar’s visit to Lahore earlier this year. The two joined Pakistani actors Resham and Shamyl Khan and video director Saqib Malik to make a music video for the Fuzon song Deewanay.
Serendip filmed the five-day video shoot to make the documentary, capturing the emotions of the creative cross-border crew …

Indus Music (IM) will hold the first pop music awards ceremony in Pakistan at the Alhamra Arts Centre on July 24.
The channel has also signed an agreement with MTV whereby IM will broadcast old English songs in a show called ‘MTV Classics’, presented and produced in Pakistan.daily Times reported.
The IM music awards focus exclusively on the popular music scene in Pakistan. The awards target two specific areas of Pakistani music: the history of pop music in Pakistan and the new groups and singers that have performed on IM and new …

Fuzon, a band of three multi-talented performers – Shafqat Amanat Ali, Imran (Immu) and Shallum Xavier – all filled with a passion for music, have merged their varying abilities,
creating some of the most promising sounds to come out of the Pakistani music scene. Their music is a reflection of today’s generation, a blend of the East and West. Fuzon has been lucky enough to hit all the right notes with their debut album Saagar.
Although tunes like Ankhon Kay Saagar, Teray Bina and Akhiyan are romantic and hummable, the self-titled songs …