Tehzeeb Foundation unveils ‘Story of Gulsher’
Zoe Viccaji, Sharif Awan and Arshad Mehmud have worked on Story of Gulsher together. PHOTO: PUBLICITY
KARACHI: Tehzeeb Foundation, a Karachi-based humanities and enlightenment refuge society, hold a seventh annual Tehzeeb Festival and Awards on Sunday. The eventuality – that lasted by a day – enclosed an art exhibition, live readings, low-pitched performances and a certificate placement ceremony.
One of a categorical segments of a dusk was a launch of a strain video entitled Story of Gulsher, that revolves around dual brothers, Gulsher and Shamsher. The 13-year-old Gulsher mislaid his life in a Army Public School conflict on Dec 16, 2014, while a younger Shamsher survived and eventually resumed his drill with renewed appetite and spirit.
The song, that is partial of a Action Moves People United album, has been constructed by Sharif Awan, ubiquitous secretary of Tehzeeb Foundation and writer of Indus Raag. It facilities strain by Arshad Mehmud, exegesis by Zia Mohyeddin, lyrics by Harris Khalique, vocals by Zoe Viccaji and subsidy vocals/sitar by Nafees Ahmed Khan.
Addressing a audience, Awan said, “December 16 has always been unpleasant for us since of a East and West Pakistan split; a APS occurrence combined to that. Pakistani artists, film-makers and singers have kept a occurrence alive in a memories.”
Echoing his sentiment, Viccaji spoke about a need to remember such events and not let them blur away. “News comes and goes all a time and many of it is forgotten. Projects like this keep such incidents in a memory and I’m so unapproachable to be a partial of it,” she stated.
The video presents Gulsher not only as another plant though a pitch for sacrifice, love, assent and Pakistan’s enterprise for education. In a pathetic nonetheless guileless tone, Khalique said, “I wish we don’t have to write such a poem again. we like to write about romance, adore and lovers and we wish another arise doesn’t arise when we have to write a poem such as this again.”
The festival also enclosed a solo muster by Ali Abbas — one of a many distinguished excellent artists of Pakistan. Another shred enclosed visible display by Anwar Maqsood and Raza Ali Abidi.
In a awards ceremony, certificates were distributed to Indus Raag Project, that recently scored nominations during a Global Music Awards (USA) and Independent Music Awards (USA). The contributors enclosed Ustad Rais Khan, Ustad Fateh Ali Khan, Ustad Naseeruddin Sami, Ustad Nafees Khan, Ustad Bashir Khan, Ustad Shahid Hamid, Ustad Salamat Hussain, Ustad Sajid Hussain, strain organisation Fuzon, Asif Sinan and others.
Speaking with The Express Tribune, Awan explained a story of Indus Raag. “When people speak about exemplary music, they call it Indian exemplary strain though it all goes behind to a River Indus. So, we are perplexing to foster Indus Raag,” he said.
The group’s initial manuscript Indus Raag: Music over Borders had a honour of being Pakistan’s initial inland entrance to be shortlisted for a 57th Grammy Awards. Awan and his group followed it adult with a supplement Indus Raag 2 – Karachi Concerts, that was expelled progressing this year.
The live strain sessions during a festival featured immature artists such as Shai Kazi, Kashif Zafar, Turab Ali and Shehroz Hussain, among others. It also enclosed a jugalbandi session by Mumtaz Ali Sabzal on a banjo, Abdullah Khan personification a shehnai and Ustad Bashir Khan on a tabla.
Published in The Express Tribune, Dec 14th, 2016.
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