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1. Best Film | Khuda Kay Liye

2. Best Film Actor | Shaan for Khuda Kay Liye

3. Best Film Actress | Iman for Khuda Kay Liye

4. Best Original Sound Track | Khuda Kay Liye

5. Best TV Play (PTV) | Lyari Express

6. Best TV Director (PTV) | Manzoor Magsi for Lyari Express

7. Best TV Actor (PTV)| Asif Reza Mir for Merey Dard ko Jo Zuban Milay

8. Best TV Actress (PTV) | Beenish Chohan for Pehli Boond

9. Best TV Play (Satellite) | Man o Salwa

What is power? Who has it? How can you tell? These are questions that have no easy answers. Ask an assertive journalist, and you’ll hear a vehement dismissal of all glamour types and the list of powerful people whittling down to a stodgy industry bigwigs. Ask a starry-eyed showbiz fanatic and you’ll hear a bubbly eulogy for all the hot starlets who in reality would not even have the clout to wangle a solo project. So the dilemma remains.

The album kicks off with the all time hit ‘Aadat’ spicing up the mood.Then comes ‘Ehsas’ a comparatively slow track with nice vocals by Atif seeming quite fantastic with a touch of spirituality in the lyrics.The album gains a lively mood again with the song ‘Zindagi’, as it is a fast number surely not to be missed. The lyrics are inspirational and the guitars used are fantastic. Atif has really worked hard on this track. Next comes the song I personally liked very much…and that is ‘Yaqeen’. Its a soft smooth and a truly melodious song with nice lyrics and good music composition. ‘Dil hare’ follows and makes the mood lively again. The lyrics are catchy and composition is euphonic. ‘Aadat’ comes again with a bang, maybe not with a bang because the whole album has three versions of Aadat, and it seems that the album should have been named Aadat.

While conducting a poll on the top ten Pakistani bands/soloists, I realized how ignorant of the pakistani music scene our expatriates are. For instance, the only bands they would know of were Junoon, Strings or EP…beyond that, most of them still thought that Awaz was making waves…ok, I’m exaggerating, come to think of it, our music scene has finally started making its presence felt…a far cry from just a year or two back when we were all still hooked on to the ‘I love junoon’ phase. Now, at least we have a number of bands to choose from…when you ask non-Pakistanis about which Pakistani band they like, at least some of them add strings or Ali Zafar to the necessary bout of Junoon mania. It’ll take time to get our selves established, but heck! We’ve started haven’t we? Ample proof of that is Strings contribution to the spider man movie!