No, this news item is not about his marital status. It’s about Atif Aslam’s new song Zindagi Aa Raha Hun Main, whose video was released recently. To be honest, the track doesn’t have much to write home about, except that its video is well shot and features Indian actor Tiger Shroff. The melody is okay and the lyrics are a little less than okay. I guess that’s not what the song intends to achieve. It heralds Atif A’s arrival as an actor in Bollywood. To be honest, he needs to be doubly good as an actor to survive in the field of acting, because his singing… well, what the heck, let’s just wish him well.

Published in Dawn, Sunday Magazine, May 17th, 2015

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