By now, we all know how Patari’s Tabeer program changed the lives of so many associated with it by bringing them a platform to display their talents. However, what started it all? We finally have an answer as the popular online streaming website has revealed that their fourth talent, Nazar Gill, was the inspiration behind Tabeer.
Crooning to a song he had written titled ‘Jugni’, Gill, a Faisalabad native, knocked on the door of his employer one day, and asked him to hear it. That’s where the whole program began.
“What I am trying to say with the song is, Jugni is that when we love, we love from the heart, not with empty words,†the singer said about the song he wrote.
Composed with the same electronic beats that seem to be influencing the whole Tabeer program, Gill’s organically soulful voice brings the sound of Punjab in its full capacity to the listeners, all with a distinct edge that eventually even trumps the redundancy of electronic tunes in the background.
That being said, one wouldn’t mind the program upping the ante like it did with its first release, The Sibbi Song, which not only held its own by having distinctive lyrics but also a video that displayed the culture of those living on the peripheries and making them connect to the urban audience. However, full props to Gill for creating his own magic into the age-old Jugni, and making it his own and ending up becoming an inspiration.
If you haven’t checked out the song yet, you can do so here and help raise funds for the artistes selected through Tabeer.
http://patari.pk/home/song/Patari-Tabeer-Jugni-Nazar-Gill-and-Farhan-Zameer
