he fate of Pakistani music industry has been quite a debatable topic
over the years but the 8th of June 2008 marked the birth of the exact
savior needed, as Coke Studio emerged with a handful of the biggest
names in the country’s music scene.
Created by the Coca-Cola Company and Managed by Executive Producer Rohail Hyatt, the show became a phenomenal one in a very short amount of time and with the ever increasing success, ran for five seasons with the sixth one in the works. Seeing how well the multinational soft drink company was doing and topping charts, longtime rival PepsiCo entered the ball game and is now planning to launch a music show of its own titled Pepsi Smash.
It is learnt that the Pepsi Smash project will be managed by drummer of Overload band, Farhad Humayun, as few of the show recordings have been held at his own music studio, Riot Studios. It should be recalled that recently, Strings uploaded a photo of themselves standing at what seemed to be a recording studio with the Overload band member and one from SYMT with the caption:
“Just recorded two brand new songs with some brilliant musicians in Lahore. Songs are part of a project and will be released mid January next year.”
Later, SYMT lead vocalist Haroon Shahid also released a statement which gave a possible clue of what the collaborated project might be.
“Shooting and recording the biggest project yet after Coke Studio for SYMT tonight at Riot Studios!”
The series of clues and hints continued as rooky Jarar Malik, Aag band’s lead vocalist Haroon Sheikh and the country’s pioneers of pop rock Noori band released similar statements which pretty much not only revealed that all of them are not only collaborating with each other but are doing it for something big and worth living up to the expectation.
Created by the Coca-Cola Company and Managed by Executive Producer Rohail Hyatt, the show became a phenomenal one in a very short amount of time and with the ever increasing success, ran for five seasons with the sixth one in the works. Seeing how well the multinational soft drink company was doing and topping charts, longtime rival PepsiCo entered the ball game and is now planning to launch a music show of its own titled Pepsi Smash.
It is learnt that the Pepsi Smash project will be managed by drummer of Overload band, Farhad Humayun, as few of the show recordings have been held at his own music studio, Riot Studios. It should be recalled that recently, Strings uploaded a photo of themselves standing at what seemed to be a recording studio with the Overload band member and one from SYMT with the caption:
“Just recorded two brand new songs with some brilliant musicians in Lahore. Songs are part of a project and will be released mid January next year.”
Later, SYMT lead vocalist Haroon Shahid also released a statement which gave a possible clue of what the collaborated project might be.
“Shooting and recording the biggest project yet after Coke Studio for SYMT tonight at Riot Studios!”
The series of clues and hints continued as rooky Jarar Malik, Aag band’s lead vocalist Haroon Sheikh and the country’s pioneers of pop rock Noori band released similar statements which pretty much not only revealed that all of them are not only collaborating with each other but are doing it for something big and worth living up to the expectation.
Despite of the disputes that two countries always had
have, Pakistani actors have found desperate to work in Bollywood.
Recently it was heard that Katrina put down a Pakistani offer of Rs. 25
Million for a movie, giving a sign that Bollywood actors have no
interest in working in the Pakistani film industry. On the contrary,
Great artists like Himayun Saeed, Michaal Khan, Javed Akhtar, etc have
been doing small roles in the Bollywood. Another name that was about to
be added in the list was of the Pakistani Model-turned-actor Imran Abbas
who was disappeared from the screen for an offer that was made to him
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