Shots of Karachi
Music
Thompson: The Pakistani city of Karachi. 00:10
The name alone is enough to conjure preconceptions of a violent place where Islamic fundamentalists thrive and terrorists hide.This sprawling port metropolis may be all those things. But as with all big cities, in Karachi, the opposite is also true.
Beach shots
When the sun goes to bed over this city, Pakistans new rock and roll generation gets up and comes out to play.
Junoon performing Music 00:47
Thompson: General Pervez Musharrafs military coup in 1999 may have suspended Pakistans democracy, but it also lifted the lid on a simmering rock and roll revolution. Five years ago rock music was effectively banned in Pakistan, condemned as foreign and un-Islamic. Today it is Pakistans biggest entertainment industry. 01:27
Music 01:50
Thompson: And this is the band that started it all Junoon. 02:07
Music
Thompson: Tonight they are performing at a concert in Karachi which was almost cancelled because of security fears.02:24
Music
Ahmad to audience
Ahmad: Good evening Karachi! I want you to applaud yourselves for coming out and facing all sorts of innuendo, threats (in Hindi) I want to say that no-ones as daring as you guys. Thankyou so much. 02:52
Junoon performing
Music 03:11
Song Lyrics: The monsoons gathering with sound & fury. Look, how the rain falls on unknown streets. Let us take advantage of this beautiful moment. 03:18
Thompson: Junoon are Pakistans rock and roll superstars.They have sold 20 million records worldwide and boast multiple number one hits in Pakistan and neighbouring India bridging the two countries deep political divide.
Music 03:57
Thompson: Junoons powerhouse blend of modern rock, politics and Sufi Muslim poetry offered Pakistans youth something they had never seen before. 04:04
Music 04:14
Vox pop with audience member.
Audience member: I like Junoon, I want to like peace. I dont want terrorism, I dont want bomb blasting. I dont want anything I want just singing and I want Allah just Allah.
Junoon video clips Music 04:40
Thompson: Lead guitarist Salman Ahmad founded Junoon in 1990. 04:53
Music
Thompson: But hes had to travel a very long road to get from rock revolutionary to rock god. 05:01
He trained as a doctor and lived in New York before giving up medicine for music. 05:09
Music
Salman: It was really trial and error, to plant a seed of rock music in a country which had never seen rock, and its probably the only place on earth where you could make all the mistakes all over again. 05:18
Music 05:29
Thompson: For years the long hair and jeans which are now Salmans trademark were banned from television in a Pakistan dominated by oppressive governments and Islamist fervour.
Music 05:42
Salman Salman: I remember the first time I was on stage, it was a talent show and I was playing something on the guitar and in came these jamatis, who were sort of a religious student group and broke all the furniture, all the guitars and I said Wait, thats our job to break the guitars and the drum sets, but they didnt have any sense of humour ahh it was really difficult, it was an uphill battle at that time, but we won out, because when you release stuff through music, it just permeates, it goes out there. 05:44
Junoon performing in TV studio Music 06:18
Thompson: In Karachi, Junoon is recording a live concert at one of the many satellite music channels that sprung up a couple of years ago challenging Pakistans strict censorship.Salmans brother Sherry, whos also Junoons manager, remembers it well. 06:48
Sherry: Excellent. Good show, eh. Good stuff 06:56
Sherry Sherry: In 1990 we just had one channel, called PTV its crap! and suddenly we had Star TV come in with MTV, and CNN and BBC and Fox, and everybodys getting bombarded with images. And even villages in Pakistan are getting these really old fogies watching Baywatch! And like, my god, that just obliterated PTVs stranglehold on peoples mindsets. And so then suddenly we started getting private channels and people realised that we dont have to kiss anybodys ass anymore, we can be ourselves. 07:01
Shallum going out
Thompson: Its a sense of freedom which young musicians like 26 old Shallum Xavier could only have dreamt about before Junoon. Its only a Tuesday night in Karachi, but Shallum is heading out on the town. 07:51
Shallum: Karachis the most happening place in Pakistan. I love being in Karachi and ah it gets dangerous sometimes, but you know every big city has some drawbacks and it is one of the biggest cities of South Asia. So I mean violence is there, but there is a balance and for the past three or four years its been absolutely really good. 07:58
Makeshift Nightclub in house
Thompson: In conservative and Muslim Pakistan where the selling of alcohol is strictly controlled, most nightclubs are secretive places for members only. So Karachis wealthy young elites hold private concerts at friends houses in the suburbs. Tonight the band is Shallums outfit Fuzon which has inherited Junoons power blend of pop rock and classical Pakistani music.
Music 08:57
Fuzon performing
Thompson: Lead singer, Shafqat Amanat Ali, comes from a family with eight generations of classically trained singers. 09:07
Music
Thompson: Mixing that tradition with funk sounds and a rocking guitar, sent Fuzons first song to number one in Pakistan for seven months. 09:25
Music
Female audience member: I think they are one of the only bands who have properly fused classical and pop perfectly together. 09:42
Vox pop with female audience member They just come up with really beautiful music I cant say anything else rather than theyre just great 09:49
Music
Thompson: A scene like this was unheard of in Pakistan just a few years ago. 10:04
Music
Nariman Ansari Nariman: The nineties have brought that in, in the eighties the youth had only options like gun culture and you know, joining gangs and getting into all that. Now
instead of guns, theyre picking up guitars and the music channels are opening up and lots of changes happening.
Musharraf on stage with Junoon
Music 10:45
Thompson: Military dictator President Pervez Musharraf is a surprising supporter of Pakistans rock revolution. It may have more to do with politics than music in 1998 Junoon broke a huge taboo by touring India. That brave move created a scandal, but also helped generate a popular momentum for peace which recently the Pakistani leader has been happy to ride. 11:17
Sherry: It was like the Beatles literally taking over India and yet the difference was, were from Pakistan, the so-called enemy country and I Sherry was like, oh my god, were landing in Bombay immigration, what they going to do and theyre like oh my god, its the Saahnee boys the number one track in India they didnt know the name of the band but the immigration boys wanted autographs from everybody. It was incredible and that for me, I think for all of us, was a paradigm shifting moment,Junoon performing in India, because we speak the same language, same food, same jokes same everything and its just mind blowing when you cross over and you see that people just love each other as human beings; they dont give a shit about your religion, or anything like that. 11:01
Thompson: Musharaffs support for Pakistans new music culture has won him his very own band of groupies. 12:18
Music
Salman: Hes an enigma, because hes a military dictator, yet weve had the most freedom of expression since he came to power in 1999. 12:31
Salman. Super: Salman Ahmad Lead guitarist, Junoon. You know, you can say anything, do anything, get up on stage and play anywhere. 12:39
Nariman Nariman: Musharaff rules! We love him because I mean so far we havent actually been able to identify with anyone in power in Pakistan yet; hes the only person we can actually relate to. We feel like he knows what were talking about. 12:44
Meera Meera: He doesnt like come out to people and say, no, you cant drink, you cant do this like, you can go out until 12, you can party, you can dance, girls can do whatever they want. Its been a positive change. 13:01
Fuzon member Band members: Hes the best I think hes the best hes the best around, so far. 13:12
Music 13:16
Thompson: Islamabad is Pakistans centre of political power.
Unlike the rest of the country this is a modern planned city of leafy streets and comfortable houses.
Zeejah with family:Its here we meet young men like Zeejah Fazli. Like most young educated middle class Pakistani professionals, Zeejah married early and is balancing a family with a well paid job.
Zeejah going to office But somewhere behind his cheery conservative appearance, lurks a dark side. 13:54
Zeejah: Alright, this is my office, its called Intermed National and its a pharmaceutical business,and that is my studio next door. Theres Imran over there. Thats my cousin Imran 14:10
Imran sleeping and he is sleeping. Imran? 14:21
Thompson: Imran is Zeejahs cousin, but unlike him, Imran has chosen the radical path of becoming one of Pakistans very few full-time rock rebels. 14:27
Imran and Zeejah:
Zeejah: So that was when you got your first guitar from Canada the black one. 14:39
Thompson: Imran may have a guitar but he has no job, or wife and kids.
Imran: I couldnt do that, I couldnt maintain those two separate identities it would just be too much of a chore for me.
Zeejah: Double life is tough. Nine to five is office hours, sober hours, dealing with different people, dealing with business. After five oclock, there is more change, I get into the other, Dark Side. 15:05
Music 15:24
Band rehearsing Lyrics: Hey teacher! Leave those kids alone! all in all its just another brick in the wall
Thompson: As a stormy night descends over Islamabad, Zeejah, Imran and their friends unleash the spirits of death metal rock. 15:54
Salman: I think young Pakistanis are searching for their true identity, because weve had so much of ideological interference. You know, either its state interference or its the western media trying to put you in a cookie cutter, right, or its the post 9/11 world, where everything Muslim is supposed to equate to terrorism. 16:17
Salman: So theres a lot of confusion amongst young people, you know, that wait a minute, we dont sign up to what Osamas doing, we didnt sign up to suicide bombing, but yet were not about Hollywood you know we have our own identity.16:51
Street shots/traditional musicians
Music 17:04
Thompson: Its the successful identity of rock bands like Junoon that also sells products in Pakistan only Bollywood film stars get that job across the border in India. 17:30
Fuzon at airport Its a border that Shallum and the other members of Fuzon are preparing to cross for the first time. Following the lead set by Junoons appeal for cross-border cultural links, Fuzon are flying to Delhi to join a concert promoting peace between the nuclear rivals.
Shallum: Were very, very, very excited about it.
Shallum at airport. Super:Shallum XavierLead guitarist, Fuzon
Shallum: On the serious side, I feel Im an ambassador for the youth, and Im going to make sure Im on my best behaviour. 18:09
Band arrives at New Delhi
Thompson: One hour later Fuzon emerges at New Delhi airport. But apart from the sight of a few turban wearing Sikhs, they seem barely aware that they ever left home. 18:25
Shafqat: This place and the people, and the weather everythings just the same. I feel like we never left were back. 18:33
Preparations for concert
Thompson: Its such cultural similarities between the people of India and Pakistan that are being highlighted at this concert in New Delhi. 18:48
But the same early monsoon weather that Pakistanis will experience across the border in Lahore, threatens to spoil this rare night out in India. 19:01
Shafqat. Super: Shafqat Amanat AliLead singer, Fuzon.
Shafqat: Itll be bad luck. I hope it wont rain, at least for our performance at least. (laughs) 19:11
Fuzon concert Music 19:20
Thompson: The rain comes down, but its not enough to dissuade the audience from witnessing another small break in the dark cloud which has hung over the two nations relationship for fifty-seven years. 19:28
Music 19:38
Thompson: Fuzons music quickly strikes a chord and they are joined on stage by a top Indian band. 20:19
Shafqat: Thank you India! 20:33
Indian lead singer: So these guys have no idea about what the song is all about. Itll be great if all of us can perform it together. 20:37
Music 20:46
Audience member Audience member: Its really fantastic, the Pakistani band. And our country band is also really fantastic. And I really think its a nice effort, its about the love peace, harmony and thats a nice gesture. 20:57
Female Audience member: There is always been this thing between India and Pakistan where there is this tension about safety and security and all of that, and I think the fact that theyve come here and played so confidently speaks a lot. 21:09
Bands perform together
Lyrics: For this show, many hurdles came in our way. And the very last hurdle was this rain. But even that could not stop you and us from meeting each other. Thank you. 21:22
Shafqat Shafqat: It was amazing. It felt really good, really good. The people were really surprised and were having a lot of fun.Thompson: Do you feel emotional about it? 22:02
Band member: Emotional, happy, excited and that describes the feeling more than anything. 22:09
Junoon video clip
Music 22:18
Thompson: A few weeks later, Junoons Salman Ahmad arrives in Delhi to promote his new music video filmed in Lahore and at Patiala in India. 22:40
Music 22:49
Salman meets with Indian family
Thompson: Here, he is meeting the current occupants of his familys ancestral home. Salmans relatives were forced to abandon the house when they fled to Pakistan in 1947 now it features in the film clip. 23:01
Junoon video clip
Music 23:14
Thompson: The songs [en]titled Ghoom Tana which means harmonious journey and features Salman and the famous Indian actress Nadita Das. 23:26
Lyrics: Winning hearts through love, Not afraid of obstacles 23:35
Salman: Ghoom tana is musical metaphor. But it is also spiritual metaphor which people living in the subcontinent Indians and Pakistanis Muslims, Hindus, Sikhs, understand instinctively. It is a metaphor for harmony, it is a metaphor for a journey. 23:55
Lyrics: Harmonious journey harmonious journey. 24:11
Salman: And we are on a journey, I mean we are reaching the 57th anniversary, independence anniversary, but we were together as a people for 5,700 years. So friendship is scripted in the DNA of the people of the subcontinent and I think, 24:25
Salman: whatever things the governments have to work out, they should work out, but they should allow people to meet each other. And this is what we are trying to do through this film. 24:38
Music
Credits: Reporter: Geoff ThompsonCamera: Michael CoxEditor: Simon Brynjolffssen
Music
Thompson: The Pakistani city of Karachi. 00:10
The name alone is enough to conjure preconceptions of a violent place where Islamic fundamentalists thrive and terrorists hide.This sprawling port metropolis may be all those things. But as with all big cities, in Karachi, the opposite is also true.
Beach shots
When the sun goes to bed over this city, Pakistans new rock and roll generation gets up and comes out to play.
Junoon performing Music 00:47
Thompson: General Pervez Musharrafs military coup in 1999 may have suspended Pakistans democracy, but it also lifted the lid on a simmering rock and roll revolution. Five years ago rock music was effectively banned in Pakistan, condemned as foreign and un-Islamic. Today it is Pakistans biggest entertainment industry. 01:27
Music 01:50
Thompson: And this is the band that started it all Junoon. 02:07
Music
Thompson: Tonight they are performing at a concert in Karachi which was almost cancelled because of security fears.02:24
Music
Ahmad to audience
Ahmad: Good evening Karachi! I want you to applaud yourselves for coming out and facing all sorts of innuendo, threats (in Hindi) I want to say that no-ones as daring as you guys. Thankyou so much. 02:52
Junoon performing
Music 03:11
Song Lyrics: The monsoons gathering with sound & fury. Look, how the rain falls on unknown streets. Let us take advantage of this beautiful moment. 03:18
Thompson: Junoon are Pakistans rock and roll superstars.They have sold 20 million records worldwide and boast multiple number one hits in Pakistan and neighbouring India bridging the two countries deep political divide.
Music 03:57
Thompson: Junoons powerhouse blend of modern rock, politics and Sufi Muslim poetry offered Pakistans youth something they had never seen before. 04:04
Music 04:14
Vox pop with audience member.
Audience member: I like Junoon, I want to like peace. I dont want terrorism, I dont want bomb blasting. I dont want anything I want just singing and I want Allah just Allah.
Junoon video clips Music 04:40
Thompson: Lead guitarist Salman Ahmad founded Junoon in 1990. 04:53
Music
Thompson: But hes had to travel a very long road to get from rock revolutionary to rock god. 05:01
He trained as a doctor and lived in New York before giving up medicine for music. 05:09
Music
Salman: It was really trial and error, to plant a seed of rock music in a country which had never seen rock, and its probably the only place on earth where you could make all the mistakes all over again. 05:18
Music 05:29
Thompson: For years the long hair and jeans which are now Salmans trademark were banned from television in a Pakistan dominated by oppressive governments and Islamist fervour.
Music 05:42
Salman Salman: I remember the first time I was on stage, it was a talent show and I was playing something on the guitar and in came these jamatis, who were sort of a religious student group and broke all the furniture, all the guitars and I said Wait, thats our job to break the guitars and the drum sets, but they didnt have any sense of humour ahh it was really difficult, it was an uphill battle at that time, but we won out, because when you release stuff through music, it just permeates, it goes out there. 05:44
Junoon performing in TV studio Music 06:18
Thompson: In Karachi, Junoon is recording a live concert at one of the many satellite music channels that sprung up a couple of years ago challenging Pakistans strict censorship.Salmans brother Sherry, whos also Junoons manager, remembers it well. 06:48
Sherry: Excellent. Good show, eh. Good stuff 06:56
Sherry Sherry: In 1990 we just had one channel, called PTV its crap! and suddenly we had Star TV come in with MTV, and CNN and BBC and Fox, and everybodys getting bombarded with images. And even villages in Pakistan are getting these really old fogies watching Baywatch! And like, my god, that just obliterated PTVs stranglehold on peoples mindsets. And so then suddenly we started getting private channels and people realised that we dont have to kiss anybodys ass anymore, we can be ourselves. 07:01
Shallum going out
Thompson: Its a sense of freedom which young musicians like 26 old Shallum Xavier could only have dreamt about before Junoon. Its only a Tuesday night in Karachi, but Shallum is heading out on the town. 07:51
Shallum: Karachis the most happening place in Pakistan. I love being in Karachi and ah it gets dangerous sometimes, but you know every big city has some drawbacks and it is one of the biggest cities of South Asia. So I mean violence is there, but there is a balance and for the past three or four years its been absolutely really good. 07:58
Makeshift Nightclub in house
Thompson: In conservative and Muslim Pakistan where the selling of alcohol is strictly controlled, most nightclubs are secretive places for members only. So Karachis wealthy young elites hold private concerts at friends houses in the suburbs. Tonight the band is Shallums outfit Fuzon which has inherited Junoons power blend of pop rock and classical Pakistani music.
Music 08:57
Fuzon performing
Thompson: Lead singer, Shafqat Amanat Ali, comes from a family with eight generations of classically trained singers. 09:07
Music
Thompson: Mixing that tradition with funk sounds and a rocking guitar, sent Fuzons first song to number one in Pakistan for seven months. 09:25
Music
Female audience member: I think they are one of the only bands who have properly fused classical and pop perfectly together. 09:42
Vox pop with female audience member They just come up with really beautiful music I cant say anything else rather than theyre just great 09:49
Music
Thompson: A scene like this was unheard of in Pakistan just a few years ago. 10:04
Music
Nariman Ansari Nariman: The nineties have brought that in, in the eighties the youth had only options like gun culture and you know, joining gangs and getting into all that. Now
instead of guns, theyre picking up guitars and the music channels are opening up and lots of changes happening.
Musharraf on stage with Junoon
Music 10:45
Thompson: Military dictator President Pervez Musharraf is a surprising supporter of Pakistans rock revolution. It may have more to do with politics than music in 1998 Junoon broke a huge taboo by touring India. That brave move created a scandal, but also helped generate a popular momentum for peace which recently the Pakistani leader has been happy to ride. 11:17
Sherry: It was like the Beatles literally taking over India and yet the difference was, were from Pakistan, the so-called enemy country and I Sherry was like, oh my god, were landing in Bombay immigration, what they going to do and theyre like oh my god, its the Saahnee boys the number one track in India they didnt know the name of the band but the immigration boys wanted autographs from everybody. It was incredible and that for me, I think for all of us, was a paradigm shifting moment,Junoon performing in India, because we speak the same language, same food, same jokes same everything and its just mind blowing when you cross over and you see that people just love each other as human beings; they dont give a shit about your religion, or anything like that. 11:01
Thompson: Musharaffs support for Pakistans new music culture has won him his very own band of groupies. 12:18
Music
Salman: Hes an enigma, because hes a military dictator, yet weve had the most freedom of expression since he came to power in 1999. 12:31
Salman. Super: Salman Ahmad Lead guitarist, Junoon. You know, you can say anything, do anything, get up on stage and play anywhere. 12:39
Nariman Nariman: Musharaff rules! We love him because I mean so far we havent actually been able to identify with anyone in power in Pakistan yet; hes the only person we can actually relate to. We feel like he knows what were talking about. 12:44
Meera Meera: He doesnt like come out to people and say, no, you cant drink, you cant do this like, you can go out until 12, you can party, you can dance, girls can do whatever they want. Its been a positive change. 13:01
Fuzon member Band members: Hes the best I think hes the best hes the best around, so far. 13:12
Music 13:16
Thompson: Islamabad is Pakistans centre of political power.
Unlike the rest of the country this is a modern planned city of leafy streets and comfortable houses.
Zeejah with family:Its here we meet young men like Zeejah Fazli. Like most young educated middle class Pakistani professionals, Zeejah married early and is balancing a family with a well paid job.
Zeejah going to office But somewhere behind his cheery conservative appearance, lurks a dark side. 13:54
Zeejah: Alright, this is my office, its called Intermed National and its a pharmaceutical business,and that is my studio next door. Theres Imran over there. Thats my cousin Imran 14:10
Imran sleeping and he is sleeping. Imran? 14:21
Thompson: Imran is Zeejahs cousin, but unlike him, Imran has chosen the radical path of becoming one of Pakistans very few full-time rock rebels. 14:27
Imran and Zeejah:
Zeejah: So that was when you got your first guitar from Canada the black one. 14:39
Thompson: Imran may have a guitar but he has no job, or wife and kids.
Imran: I couldnt do that, I couldnt maintain those two separate identities it would just be too much of a chore for me.
Zeejah: Double life is tough. Nine to five is office hours, sober hours, dealing with different people, dealing with business. After five oclock, there is more change, I get into the other, Dark Side. 15:05
Music 15:24
Band rehearsing Lyrics: Hey teacher! Leave those kids alone! all in all its just another brick in the wall
Thompson: As a stormy night descends over Islamabad, Zeejah, Imran and their friends unleash the spirits of death metal rock. 15:54
Salman: I think young Pakistanis are searching for their true identity, because weve had so much of ideological interference. You know, either its state interference or its the western media trying to put you in a cookie cutter, right, or its the post 9/11 world, where everything Muslim is supposed to equate to terrorism. 16:17
Salman: So theres a lot of confusion amongst young people, you know, that wait a minute, we dont sign up to what Osamas doing, we didnt sign up to suicide bombing, but yet were not about Hollywood you know we have our own identity.16:51
Street shots/traditional musicians
Music 17:04
Thompson: Its the successful identity of rock bands like Junoon that also sells products in Pakistan only Bollywood film stars get that job across the border in India. 17:30
Fuzon at airport Its a border that Shallum and the other members of Fuzon are preparing to cross for the first time. Following the lead set by Junoons appeal for cross-border cultural links, Fuzon are flying to Delhi to join a concert promoting peace between the nuclear rivals.
Shallum: Were very, very, very excited about it.
Shallum at airport. Super:Shallum XavierLead guitarist, Fuzon
Shallum: On the serious side, I feel Im an ambassador for the youth, and Im going to make sure Im on my best behaviour. 18:09
Band arrives at New Delhi
Thompson: One hour later Fuzon emerges at New Delhi airport. But apart from the sight of a few turban wearing Sikhs, they seem barely aware that they ever left home. 18:25
Shafqat: This place and the people, and the weather everythings just the same. I feel like we never left were back. 18:33
Preparations for concert
Thompson: Its such cultural similarities between the people of India and Pakistan that are being highlighted at this concert in New Delhi. 18:48
But the same early monsoon weather that Pakistanis will experience across the border in Lahore, threatens to spoil this rare night out in India. 19:01
Shafqat. Super: Shafqat Amanat AliLead singer, Fuzon.
Shafqat: Itll be bad luck. I hope it wont rain, at least for our performance at least. (laughs) 19:11
Fuzon concert Music 19:20
Thompson: The rain comes down, but its not enough to dissuade the audience from witnessing another small break in the dark cloud which has hung over the two nations relationship for fifty-seven years. 19:28
Music 19:38
Thompson: Fuzons music quickly strikes a chord and they are joined on stage by a top Indian band. 20:19
Shafqat: Thank you India! 20:33
Indian lead singer: So these guys have no idea about what the song is all about. Itll be great if all of us can perform it together. 20:37
Music 20:46
Audience member Audience member: Its really fantastic, the Pakistani band. And our country band is also really fantastic. And I really think its a nice effort, its about the love peace, harmony and thats a nice gesture. 20:57
Female Audience member: There is always been this thing between India and Pakistan where there is this tension about safety and security and all of that, and I think the fact that theyve come here and played so confidently speaks a lot. 21:09
Bands perform together
Lyrics: For this show, many hurdles came in our way. And the very last hurdle was this rain. But even that could not stop you and us from meeting each other. Thank you. 21:22
Shafqat Shafqat: It was amazing. It felt really good, really good. The people were really surprised and were having a lot of fun.Thompson: Do you feel emotional about it? 22:02
Band member: Emotional, happy, excited and that describes the feeling more than anything. 22:09
Junoon video clip
Music 22:18
Thompson: A few weeks later, Junoons Salman Ahmad arrives in Delhi to promote his new music video filmed in Lahore and at Patiala in India. 22:40
Music 22:49
Salman meets with Indian family
Thompson: Here, he is meeting the current occupants of his familys ancestral home. Salmans relatives were forced to abandon the house when they fled to Pakistan in 1947 now it features in the film clip. 23:01
Junoon video clip
Music 23:14
Thompson: The songs [en]titled Ghoom Tana which means harmonious journey and features Salman and the famous Indian actress Nadita Das. 23:26
Lyrics: Winning hearts through love, Not afraid of obstacles 23:35
Salman: Ghoom tana is musical metaphor. But it is also spiritual metaphor which people living in the subcontinent Indians and Pakistanis Muslims, Hindus, Sikhs, understand instinctively. It is a metaphor for harmony, it is a metaphor for a journey. 23:55
Lyrics: Harmonious journey harmonious journey. 24:11
Salman: And we are on a journey, I mean we are reaching the 57th anniversary, independence anniversary, but we were together as a people for 5,700 years. So friendship is scripted in the DNA of the people of the subcontinent and I think, 24:25
Salman: whatever things the governments have to work out, they should work out, but they should allow people to meet each other. And this is what we are trying to do through this film. 24:38
Music
Credits: Reporter: Geoff ThompsonCamera: Michael CoxEditor: Simon Brynjolffssen