Review: Salman Ahmad’s ‘Kaise Bolun’ is an insult to his artistic prowess

Singer loses the plot with ‘Kaise Bolun’

KARACHI: There are times when you do not expect anything and yet you’re terribly disappointed. The displeasure hits you in a way that you really don’t know what to say except, Kaise bolun? It leaves you scarred and it actually takes you a while to come to terms with your own reality.

This is exactly what comes to your mind when you hear singer-activist Salman Ahmad’s latest track, ironically titled Kaise Bolun. If you feel Eye to Eye wasn’t enough to completely express your emotions for your beloved, then this “Soul to Soul” concept is made for you.





Kaise Bolun is part of the upcoming Adeel Chaudhry-starrer Rhythm. The video has an uncanny resemblance to song sequences from David Dhawan comedies of the 90s and Ahmad himself resembles the Piyush Mishra of Anurag Kashyap’s Gulaal. While the music is bland and substandard, the lyrics make us gasp in horror; this is the same artist who composed the brilliant Saqi Nama of Allama Iqbal. It’s sad to see someone who is revered as one of the greatest guitarists of Pakistan to come up with a composition that actually insults his own artistic prowess, body of work and Junoon loyalists (that is, everyone).



Ahmad’s own comeback attempts also merit some pontification. While we shook our heads in disbelief when Naya Pakistan came out and thought there must be something wrong when Chand Sitara hit the screens, Kaise Bolun has literally left us speechless. To quote Kurt Cobain, “It’s better to burn out than to fade away.” 

Ahmad took to Twitter to share his latest single.

FUNNA = Mystical ecstasy @Zeb_MS pyar ishq mohabbat aur kya https://t.co/jUJ5ncF807

— Salman Ahmad (@sufisal) February 26, 2016

And not surprisingly, fans were mortified by the singer's latest offering.

Watch Salman Ahmad shit on everything he has ever known musically. One of the worst things I have ever witnessed. https://t.co/LWlKahtKW1

— Shaheryar Mirza (@mirza9) February 26, 2016

https://twitter.com/Emclub7/status/702983539168567296

My computer refused to play Salman Ahmad's new video. This is what we mean by artificial intelligence.

— Bina Shah (@BinaShah) February 26, 2016

The Salman Ahmad video can be used as our indigenous version of rick rolling. Don't see any other purpose for it. https://t.co/pmnaCPSteP

— Shaheryar Mirza (@mirza9) February 26, 2016

https://twitter.com/Taha20Jibril/status/703146860500750336

shoulder to shoulder... pic.twitter.com/SiX81wQ5LH

— Awais Athar (@awaisathar) February 26, 2016

Hmm just saw that Sufisal vid everyone is on about. It's like he takes a chappal and smacks the heck out of your senses. #SoleToSole

— Sir Chasm (@deranged_trader) February 26, 2016

#FF_Special to @sufisal, only he could've make anything worse than "Eye-to-Eye". #Respect.

— Malik (@GenialMalik) February 26, 2016

https://t.co/rCqqRUXoxF Sufisal completely lost it, Tahir Shah level performance or even worst? 😂😂

— Doctor Faisal Ranjha (@fasiranjha) February 26, 2016

Doctors should use Sufisal's music video to explain what a midlife crisis is.

— Shumail (@Shumyl) February 26, 2016

But does he care? Seems highly unlikely.

Trolls don't hate you. They hate themselves. They're in pain & you getting upset is like their morphine. Don't administer. Enjoy the screams

— Salman Ahmad (@sufisal) February 26, 2016

some trolls are like the walking dead. anonymous, no humor, no Junoon & no life. This one's 4 u:) https://t.co/jUJ5ncF807

— Salman Ahmad (@sufisal) February 26, 2016

Hate is a form of warped love. #SoultoSoul

— Salman Ahmad (@sufisal) February 26, 2016

Check out the song here:


Published in The Express Tribune, February 27^th,  2016.

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