Painter from viral video to open Aima Baig's Independence Day concert in Lahore

Few days ago, a video of a local painter, Muhammad Arif, crooning to various Arijit Singh's songs went viral

KARACHI: Few days ago, the video of a painter named Muhammad Arif singing different Arijit Singh songs took over social media. Since then, many came forward to ask different local artists to give him a chance.

Soon, we had reports that Coke Studio starlet Aima Baig was going to sing a duet with Muhammad. Aima's manager and sister Komal, however, has cleared the air on the matter.

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Speaking to The Express Tribune, Komal said, "Let's be clear that it is not a collaboration. They aren't singing a duet yet. Arif will be opening Aima's concert in Lahore on Independence Day this year."

She further added, "The concert itself is about promoting new Pakistani talent and it seems like a fitting platform for Arif to get his big break."

Komal also revealed Muhammad will be getting a makeover from Nabila's salon and designer Munib Nawaz. His 17-minute long mashup of Arijit songs spread like wildfire on social media, so much so that people from both India and Pakistan tweeted the video, tagging different singers to bring it to their attention.

Abhi Mujh Mein Kahin, Baaki Thodi Si Hai Zindagi 🙂

Twitter done bits for that #ChaiWala - now to do the same for this #PaintWala ❤️ pic.twitter.com/6YNfOaCHAf

— a l i v e (@AadiHun) August 4, 2018

This pakistani painter has left @ARIJIT__SINGH behind. Here this soulful version of channa merya . Please retweat this to let this talent to reach out to world. Singers aur kalakaron se guzarish hai is ki madad ki jaey thanks .. pic.twitter.com/PuStZ5PyAn

— Zeeshan Mehdi (@es_zeeshan) August 5, 2018

That painter singer has such a brilliant voice and what command over sur. Loved his singing.

— Marwaari (@Marwaari) August 7, 2018

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https://twitter.com/Classikhman/status/1025120764519956480

@ARYNEWSOFFICIAL @WaseemBadami @AliZafarsays
Beautiful voice of a talented Pakistani, whose profession is house painting but passion is singing. https://t.co/09fRRbdexQ

— Adnan Irfan (@Addy_Irfan) August 3, 2018

Some Indian users tagged Bollywood bigwigs such as Vishal Dadlani, Shreya Goshal and Arijit himself, hoping to land Muhammad a chance.

https://twitter.com/Official_Z_Khan/status/1025990778865106944

@Shankar_Live

Dear Shankar sir, a painter from rural area singing so beautifully goes to prove that talent has no boundaries.. Please listen to him...https://t.co/S4FGTDyX8u

— Raghav (@raghavhosmar) August 5, 2018

As sonu nigham is not on twitter, who else would be better to ask for an opinion on this than the melodious @shreyaghoshal. So whats your take on this @shreyaghoshal ? He is a painter who loves singing.#PaintWala #Singer #Talent #Viral https://t.co/Hg8MKtu6QD

— Salman Aziz (@imSalmanaziz) August 5, 2018

We wish him all the best for the future!

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