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Strings
does song for Bollywood flick
By Khurrum Anis
KARACHI: Pop duo Strings (Bilal Maqsood
and Faisal Kapadia) have added another
feather to their cap by recently producing
a song for Indian movie director Sanjay
Gupta’s latest film ‘Zinda,’ Daily Times
learnt on Saturday.
The video for this song ‘Zinda hoon’ (Yeh
hai meri kahani) (I’m alive; This is my
story) has also been directed by Gupta and
in addition to the Strings, features the
film’s actors Sanjay Dutt and John
Abraham. As with most of their songs, the
lyrics of Zinda Hoon have also been penned
by Bilal’s father Anwar Maqsood. MTV
launched the video on November 20,
according to the band’s newsletter.
‘Zinda’ (the movie) stars Sunjay Dutt,
John Abraham, Lara Dutta, Celina Jaitley
and Mahesh Manjrekar and will be released
on January 13.
The Strings’ latest outing will also be
launched at the International Film
Festival of India in Goa. Both Maqsood (Jr)
and Kapadia will be performing at the
launch and the music for the movie Zinda
will be launched on December 4. The
Strings has had a good year. They were
selected as Pakistan UNICEF National
Ambassadors for HIV and AIDS inspectors
when they put up a performance at the
United Nations Secretariat in New York.
In February, the group was called to New
Delhi where they participated in a charity
function for Prime Minister Manmohan
Singh’s fund for tsunami victims. The
duo’s unplugged performance of ‘Naa Jaaney
Kyun’ was dedicated to the tsunami
victims.
Courtesty:Daily Times -
November 27th. 2005.
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