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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.