Ali Haider makes comeback with new single ‘Tanha’

KARACHI: After being seen in Coke Studio’s eight instalment, singer Ali Haider had once again vanished from the scene. While his last studio album came out in 2013, he hasn’t exactly been releasing music consistently. However, all this has changed with the Purani Jeans star returning to the fore, once again.

“We all love to go abroad but then comes a point when you miss your homeland, your people and your culture and you feel alone. Tanha portrays all those emotions,” he wrote on his Facebook page alongside the link to his latest single, Tanha, on Saturday.

Filmed in the US with sequences similar to those of PTV dramas of the late 90s that showed life of Pakistanis abroad, the song’s video shows Haider and his collaborating artist Emma Mall roam the streets of America, singing an easy-listening, simple melody.



While Haider has refused to age, Emma certainly does not belong to his peer group. The debutante’s singing prowess clearly shows and brings to mind Sunidhi Chauhan of India. However, her inclusion in a typical Ali Haider song which only Ali Haider can pull off seems a little needless; Haider could have gone solo and still done fine. The Faraz Anwar produced track also has a very small guitar solo that vanishes as soon as you begin to yearn for more.

Tanha is light-hearted and fresh; we’re just glad that after his Bachpan Ki Badami Yadein debacle, Haider has recovered well.

Published in The Express Tribune, May 2^nd, 2016.

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