“Well I heard the original but the things Strings have really modified the Kalam according to today’s generation music taste !. The following comment I got off the net sums up what I have to say perfectly: Yes, Atif’s song has similar lyrics, but that’s pretty much where the similarities end.
Why can’t I like both apples AND oranges?!?!?!? How can you compare a song to a qawwali? It’s like comparing oranges and apples. The biggest difference being that the Sabri brothers immortalized Tajdar-e-haram as a qawwali and the one that Atif crooned is a song. I will go as far as to say, why compare it with the original? Both are different. Today the music scene is very different and people now are ready to want, accept and like what Atif has done with a classic for the plain reason that it’s fresh and in tune with the times. That’s a long time and in these forty long years everything about music and the Pakistani music industry has changed. The original Tajdar-e-haram was sung by the Sabri brothers in 1975, some forty years ago. The original is a classic in every right. I kind of liked the new version myself, but that in no way means that the original sucks. It was a pathetic effort.” And another one just below it claimed “I was not expecting it from Atif.
The divide is so large that one comment I read stated “Atif / Coke Studio have the distinct privilege of butchering one of my favorite qawwalis. Some however, can’t stop talking about how wonderful the new version is. Some claim that it was a mistake on Atif’s part to have attempted a rendition of the magnum opus that the Sabri brothers belted out in 1975. Today I am going to pen down my two cents on the Tajdar-e-haram debate.Ī lot has already been said on this already with people comparing the Sabri brothers 70’s version to Atif’s reimagined one.
new debate and the Umair Jaiswal’s rock star moves. The two most notable being the Tajdar-e-haram, old vs. Coke studio 8 is garnering rave reviews and – as is the norm – lighting up some controversies on the way.