Naren's indie round-up/ May 2024, Ep 1
BY NARENDRA KUSNUR Faheem Abdullah & Rauhan Malik/ Ishq Label: Artist First/ TM Music Rating: ***** Pakistani poet Amir Ameer's well-known creation 'Chal Aa Aisi Nazm Likhoon' gets a Sufi-rock interpretation in this version called 'Ishq', composed and sung by Kashmiri artistes Faheem Abdullah and Rauhan Malik. The song, which features in the album Lost: Found , begins with the lines, "Main aa likhoon tu aa jaaye, main baith likhoon tu aa baithe, mere shaane par sar rakhe tu, main neend likhoon tu so jaaye". The song is in chaste Urdu with an additional Kashmiri line at the end. The guitars and tight rhythms add the rock element. Some parts faintly remind you of the Beatles song 'With A Little Help From My Friend'. That may be a sub-conscious similarity but otherwise the song is super. There's a music video too, directed by Faheem Abdullah himself and starring Samreen Kaur and Mir Tafazul, created as an eight-minute film. Shot in Kashmir, i