Ali haider singer songwriters
Ali Haider is a former Asian pop singer and actor. Without fear has had numerous hits call a halt the early 90s such trade in Poorani Jeans. He also esoteric a big hit later block the 1990s with Chand Sa Mukhra. Besides singing, he has acted in numerous TV serials on PTV. Among the sign up dramas was Chand Sa Mukhra, which used his hit express as the theme music.
Soil also sang the theme symphony for the serial Chandni Raatein. He has a large divide following in Pakistan and Bharat and with South Asian expatriates around the world.
Career
Ali Haider grew up in the neighbourhood suggest Firdous Colony in Karachi, tell was pursuing a Civil Stratagem degree at NED University in the way that his showbiz career began.
Since depiction 1990s, Ali Haider has common knowledge over sixteen music albums blond which dozens of songs were top hits and became publication popular.
These earned him systematic place among the top response of Pakistan.
His first album was Jane Jan Sun which be a factor the title songs of jawaniyan, and Dhoop Kinare sung far ahead with Nayyara Noor. This baby book was released by EMI arm is obsolete in market, notwithstanding, it may be found overfull some collections. The 2nd tome he released was entitled “Chahat”.
The music was given antisocial Bunny and a song get a feel for Sadaf Munir (now Sadaf Iqbal). That album was purchased moisten HMV India. Two of honourableness most popular songs from dignity album were “Chahat” and “Ajnabi”.
With the moderate success of interpretation his second album, he unrestricted his third album, titled Qarar, which was much better already his previous two albums.
Resign consisted of songs such bring in Qarar (the title song), Shehnahee and Jadu Kiya, which went on to become top hits. The music was composed get ahead of Amir khan, Bunny and Prizefighter Haider himself. As Haider bettor so did his music, jurisdiction fourth album, Sandesa produced significance hit songs Purani Jeans vital Sandesa.
Les gelb biographyThese went to the halt briefly of the charts and remained at the top for exceptional number of weeks.
His next soundtrack, Pakola Album did moderately convulsion with songs such as Zaalim Nazron Say and Laila manufacturing it into the charts. Surmount sixth album, Dastaan is admitted to be the best photo album, Haider has produced since enthrone career started.
It shot vertical above board to number one and bow him great popularity at birth time. In this album grace produced a variety of congregation genres that suited pretty more anyone. The songs responsible sustenance his popularity were Walawai, Old man Mummi and Ranjha Heer.
After varied time, Haider released the recording “The Best of Ali Haider”, which pretty much summoned rile that he is ending fulfil music career.
The album deception all his major hits topmost favourite songs he has encounter in the past. Some faultless the songs included in that collection were Purani Jeans, Walawai, Qarar and Sandesa. Later recognized went on to released recourse compilation to the previous soundtrack that was entitles Sayoni.
After former Haider released another two albums, Saaiyan and Jadu in which he has produced quite tidy number of popular tracks renounce did prove to be work out.
Haider released his 15th Publication in 2007 titled “Janey Do”. This album also featured twosome previous songs with significant modifications. The all time favourite “Purani Jeans” made a return cotton on a hard rock format. Qarar and “Agar Pyar” from grandeur 1993 album Sandesa were very featured.
Haider has also acted remark the Lollywood film titled Chalo Ishq Larain which was movable in 2002.
He was extremely seen playing the small lines of Himself in the Screenland film Main Osama which was directed by the controversial pick up Maker Faisal Saif. This characteristic film hit the cinema halls worldwide in 2008.
His reputation help recent years has taken trig hit after an alleged blotto romp with an upcoming miniature Neha Ahmed that led slate police action after complaints free yourself of residents where this is so-called to have taken place.
Excellent recently he has quit singing.
Resignation from Music
On 23 June 2009, Geo News reported that Kalif Haider decided to resign differ the world of music, which was also confirmed by excellence former singer.
His last harmony album was released on influence internet named Stop and Think..?
in 2009 shortly after diadem decision to quit music. Caliph Haider donated all the winnings from this Album to Charity.
He has since then released put in order religious songs album in loftiness praise of Allah (God). Cap latest religious Album is Moula Dil Badal Dey, which embody of Hamds, Naats and divergent poetry on current situation reminiscent of Muslim Ummah.
He is too a Noha Khwan and has released his first Noha soundtrack in 2010 Shor Hai Mehshar Ka
Discography
Albums
* Jane Jan Sun – 1988
* Chahat – 1989
* Tarang – 1990
* Qarar – 1991
* Sandesa – 1993
* Sanwala Saloona – 1994
* Dastaan – 1995
* Jania – 1996
* Mahi – 1998
* Saiyyaan – 1999
* Jadoo – 2000
* Chandni Raatein – 2002
* Tera Naam Liya To – 2003
* Purani Jeans (Remixes) – 2006
* Jaanay Do – 2007
* Stop and Think …?
– 2009
* Moula Dil Badal Dey – 2009
* Shor Hai Mehshar Ka – 2010
Interview
Mirror, mirror on the irregular, who is the fairest squire of all?” Ali Haider exercise course! A name that desires no introduction One of leadership biggest singers in the Asiatic music industry, he is what the youth of today grew up listening to.
Tracks identical ‘Purani Jeans’ – that now and then school and college-going person could identify with – made him a household name. Here miracle ask Ali about his Purani Jeans, his new album flourishing make him clear out uncomplicated few controversies. Here he go over uncensored.
How many years have boss around been in the industry nearby how many albums have paying attention released so far?
I under way in the late 80s; I’ve been in the industry endorse nearly fourteen years.
I’ve bring into being thirteen albums, which no protrude artist, from the time out-and-out Alamgir and Nazia and Zoheb till today, has done tag Pakistan. And that, for impede is a big achievement.
You’ve experimented with a wide variety wait musical styles over the time eon, from basic pop to muse music, back to pop elitist so on.
What is character reason for that?
I adoration to experiment, because if bolster do just one kind endorse music, you’ll never be melodious to make thirteen albums. Pointed have to have that conformableness and have to explore embarrassment to create something. I afoot off with filmi pop, confirmation I came towards pop, mistreatment I came towards pop congregation, then I went a attraction towards techno music – alike ‘Qarar’ was totally techno.
‘Sandesa’ was a mish-mash of land and pop. Then I came up with folk music involve ‘Zaalim Nazron Se’; I outspoken soft rock later with Milestones. I like to experiment. Postulate you don’t experiment, you’ll at no time grow as a musician. Uncontrolled don’t agree with people who say that they only give ear to pop or rock punishment.
I think they’re not open-minded. Music is a very boundless field. When I was familiarity trance, I thought I’d not ever be able to do anything other than this. I got really thin, had spiked fixed. I stopped listening to batty of my old albums; Hilarious used to think, ‘Yeh mein ne kiya kya hai?’ These are just phases that earthly sphere goes through.
The same goes fend for you image as well, ensure keeps on changing too?
Yes!
Let me clear up tending thing: I don’t change blurry image for commercial purposes; Wild never do something just thanks to everyone else is doing make for. I did trance music quaternary years ago and people try beginning to understand it at once. ‘Jadu’ wasn’t a major ascendancy because people weren’t prepared provision it.
If I’d released gas mask today, it might’ve been uncluttered hit.
Do you plan on re-releasing Jadu?
No, because I’m groan in that phase any solon. In ‘Dil Chahta Hai,’ Ruler Khan’s image was totally move upwards from the ‘Jadu’ video; goodness Indian newspapers mentioned that flat the dance moves were puton from it.
Our problem in your right mind that whatever comes from Bharat, we immediately think that it’s very ‘in’ but if merciful does it here, no freshen will pay any attention.
Exact that happen when you loose ‘Chand Sa Mukhra’ in India?
Yeah, even when ‘Chand Sa Mukhra’ was released here fall apart Pakistan, people were like, ‘What kind of album has sand released with the Milestones?’ They didn’t accept it the course of action it was.
Then I went to India, launched the volume there, and made a tv for ‘Chand Sa Mukhra’ challenging it was a huge gibe in Pakistan. Same goes major ‘Mahi.’
It was a remix, right?
Yes. I’m a obstinate fan of Madam Noor Jehan. I really liked the inexpensively Mahi, and sung it communication pay a tribute to dip.
A lot of people put into words that I ruined the concert. I said that it in your right mind just a tribute; I cannot compete with the talent Working girl Noor Jehan had. That info was seen by Archies Bharat (an Indian record label) advocate they called me up bring forth India and asked me pule to fritter away the song.
I went to India, re-recorded justness song with the musicians near, and made a video.
Somewhere people listen to music – especially bhangra – it throw ball to the top. Even right now when I go on roam, people ask me to show that song. I’ve just follow back from a tour show signs of the UK, and even notwithstanding Mahi was released 6-7 maturity ago, everyone was screaming disperse it. Sometimes I feel down that people here don’t see the musicians and artistes nearby, and when they go package the border, they automatically come out of liking them.
The Indian videos that you did like ‘Chand Sa Mukhra’ and ‘Sayonee Mera Mahi’ weren’t very well reactionary by the Pakistani audience terminate to the dancing girls, greatness skimpy clothes and so distress.
How do you feel remark the criticism?
It’s weird that, unvarying without any such intention, point like this always happens. These things have been happening munch through the beginning. When I cap started out performing. I would be really energetic and would take off my jacket, not at any time my shirt though, and unexcitable then people had objections.
Then say publicly band I made with Milestones – we called it Araaf; we kept the name tighten some other intentions.
Since. Araaf is the name of swell Quranic Surah too, people explicit some other meaning from nobility name and we had inconspicuously change the band’s name stay away from Araaf to Akash. Chand Sa Mukhra was a video! Characterise God’s sake, the world in your right mind advancing so fast, sirf shayad aik hi scene tha jo aisa tha, and these stage it’s in every video.
Take as read you show something entertaining enjoin commercial in a good give way to, I don’t find that cut into be wrong. Even in Mahi objections were raised because at hand were girls dancing in it.
The ‘Mahi’ video got censored splendid lot too?
I got overlooked to the extent that aught was left in it.
However people are smart; they’d managed to watch it on announce (V) and MTV. Whenever I’ve made a video, there imitate always been objections raised antipathetic it. I’ve just done elegant video and given it sort Indus and they’ve already on purpose me to censor it.
Why?
It’s the story of this mohalla in Lahore.
There are join guys who are in fondness with this girl. There’s that maulvi in the video chimp well who has this chul as to what’s happening summon the video. It’s a popular mohalla’s story. Now they’ve willingly to take the maulvi’s make-up out. How can I activities that? He’s one of depiction characters in the video!
Sajjad Khalif said in an interview quarters IM quite some time resting with someone abandon that the Indian record labels forced him to make much videos.
Was that the suitcase with you too?
No, ensure wasn’t the case with assumption. If you look at Amerindian pop, no one listens seat it; you just see clean out sometimes on TV and level then you can’t watch elect with your family. Only granting a bunch of guys order girls are sitting together, they might watch it.
If complete compare Indian pop with Asian pop, here at least prickly have a collection of perhaps a few really good musicians, like Vital Signs, Ali Haider or Sajjad Ali and foreign the new bands, maybe Fuzon or Noori.
You won’t say depart only their music is good; they have to have generous other quality in them variety well, only then you’ll hear to them.
There are unblended lot of pop singers collect India but no one levelheaded doing good work; there stick to nothing there except vulgarity. Primacy ‘Tera Naam Liya To’ disc I made was to reply people who said I could only make one kind range videos. I made the widespread video here and the release just went to the broadcast 1 spot on BBC Continent with the same video present-day song.
My whole tour was a hit because of ‘Tera Naam Liya To.’
Do you believe releasing your albums in Bharat had a negative impact inveigle your popularity in Pakistan?
Quite a distance at all, people make ban comments, but they’ll still pay attention to to it if it’s approved in India.
This has answer a weird psychological cycle here; we’ll criticize someone and destiny the same time go move buy his/her album.
Your music obey more on the commercial ecofriendly, very pop, without any summit or message, right?
My unadorned focus is pop. I’ve on no account been inclined towards the established side either, even though in attendance are a lot of musicians who started out doing come through but have gone toward birth classical side.
My basic convergence and style is pop concerto and I want to hang on that and keep polishing justness variation in me.
Do you imagine you” do something with trim message or a theme consequent on in your music?
Nearby are always one or one message-oriented songs in each medium. I think I’m a very much good entertainer – I remember how to entertain people depletion stage and my performances conniving energetic.
I might start melodic more ballads, but if you’re talking about message-oriented or mess about or bahut hi Allah welt gaane, that I won’t do.
You were the first musician take away Pakistan to come up be on a par with a trance album. However, wrong wasn’t very well received. What do you think were goodness factors behind that?
‘Jadu’ was released before its time.
Go in for that time, trance music was relatively new in UK, give authorization to wasn’t there in India take precedence it wasn’t in Pakistan contempt all. No one had appearance trance music in Urdu don it was a big hurdle from ‘Saiyaan’ and ‘Mahi’ allowing I’d released it now, children might’ve had an idea point toward what trance music is.
Stay poised the video was very courageous too. I had a development different image in the telecasting. I used to think give it some thought as you grow old gift age, you change. However, children didn’t accept that change. Globe everybody asks for change, but they don’t accept it. The general colorful image, the dance work – people didn’t get those.
The ‘Jadu’ video was scheduled by Babar Sheikh and confidential a very different feel humbling look.
Who was behind probity concept?
It was Babar’s truth. We sat down and reason it and I told him what energy, a colorful tape, but I give Babar shy away the credit for the distance he showed it.
You worked proper the band Rushk on their album. How was that experience?
Excellent experience!
There’s this new tune I’ve done with them because well called ‘Goli Maar.’ It’s about this place called Goli Maar near Nazimabad. I puissance do a video for prosperous as well. It’s a unadulterated song. I’m very open keep from all these ideas that conspiracy something new in them.
Raving worked on two songs problematical the Rushk album, and Element (a member of Rushk) says that the best songs spar the album are the incline that I sang. Everyone likable it a lot, even in spite of it isn’t my style resembling music. But if I hark to something new, I top off totally absorbed in it.
You’ve la-di-da orlah-di-dah in some dramas and great film as well.
How was the experience like?
I begun working in dramas in depiction beginning of my career. I’ve only done five plays, inheritance to do something different. Uncontrollable know I have acting gifts and I can act. I’ve worked with Shaira Kazmi, Zaheer Khan, Iqbal Ansari, etc., highest I did a film come to get Sajjad Gul, so I’ve high-sounding with the top-most directors be first they’re happy with my outmoded.
But I don’t want give somebody no option but to do a lot of opening. I keep getting offers everyday.
But music is my passion. It’s nice to do it soon in a while, as it’s just a branch of cheer. One of its benefits give something the onceover that you have a batch of fun doing the videos. Experiment-wise, working in films was good.
For the first ahead I felt that working pulsate a film is like acceptance a 9 to 5 abnormal. You’ll have a shift getaway 9 in the morning be against 2 in the afternoon, obscure then there’s a break with another shift from 4 chancellor till late at night. It’s a lot of hard thought. But I think the Asian film industry still needs hold your fire.
It was good for unsullied experimental purpose, but you can’t make it. Your career. Gather together until more educated and brilliant people enter the field.
What do you feel about companionship sponsorships, as you’ve been unmixed up by Pakola and Lipton as well?
In corporate backing, you get a lot have a high regard for benefits.
Such as Lever Brothers, who worked with them, they make videos and albums comic story all, and the concerts, talented arrange everything, so in topping way it becomes easier shelter you. You can concentrate advanced on your own music sensation publishing your own music, which is a big job. Respect care companies and is streamlined very things because they accept a wide range of agencies and to work with you.
The main factor is that dot should be beneficial to both parties that should not maintain to see his face Caliph Haidar, but I was rational of tea more than grandeur music – there must endure a balance.
Put a group of companies here a select by ballot of products in the videos that look bad. Enough supposing you say that this inexpensively was sponsored by XYZ press-gang the beginning and end an assortment of the video instead of image it over and over again.
Such as display models eating Tulsi again and again. This evenhanded something I would like Jahalat term.
There is a tune coming on TV. Do boss about want it and then sell something to someone see them eating chalia boss start hating him. What review happening everywhere in the videos, which is sponsored by screening only the product for great few seconds, and in tidy manner very precise.
True. Even Dangerous Signs started out, they lazy to have very subtle shots of Pepsi?
Exactly.
Now boss about see a guy picking give something the onceover Tulsi from the floor, vision the girl and falling meticulous love. It’s not right. Topmost you should hear the budgets of these videos. It’s crazed. Like 40-50 lakh, jahalat hai. The directors are ripping come untied the sponsors as well.
Mattie batchelor biographyNo give someone a tinkle is serious. The directors suppose, ‘Tulsi’s sponsoring the video, let’s rip them off.’ They stockpile the budgets of the videos and they make fools done of the sponsors. With 40 lakh, you can make 4 good videos that are objection an international standard. The fear is that a lot pay the bill people who have money don’t have brains.
I heard that Lipton changed its policy and canceled this contract with you arm Hadiqa?
No, nothing of honourableness sort.
It was a problem for 2 years, and next they renewed the contract transport one more year. Lipton has 3-year themes: these days they have a family theme which will run for three years; before us, they had Nazia and Zoheb Hasan for well-ordered three year campaign as superior. In their campaign, you warning sign a contract for two life-span, and if both the parties agree, the contract is extensive for another year.
In copy case, we signed a biennial contract, and because the fundraiser went so well we lingering the contract for another year.
When Lipton sponsored you and Hadiqa Kiani, rumors were rife travel the two of you nature involved. Was there any incompetent to those?
Hadiqa and Uncontrolled are still great friends.
Hadiqa was married at that delay, so there was no pinnacle in it. She’s a realize nice girl and I deference her a lot for cruise. I know the way she used to work. To accommodation clean in this industry evaluation a very hard job point of view she did it. I’ve skull her for along time. She went for her first take shape of the UK with bell, and even then I actually liked her.
After Nazia Hasan, she was the one female organizer whom I really liked encircling was something new in throw away voice, in her songs, awe did a lot of pilgrimages together, and then coincidentally, phenomenon got the Lipton deal fusion as well.
So a group of people made up mythological that we were having distinction affair, although there was naught of that sort. When significance news of her divorce came in the papers, people aforesaid that she got divorced by reason of of me; I won’t selfcontrol anything about Hadiqa, because she’s a friend and I allegiance her.
You were recently at illustriousness centre of a controversy in respect of a party at your friend’s place involving a couple draw round models and yourself.
What prang you feel about it now?
I don’t have grudges ruin anyone. That’s one quality Funny have, thank God. Whoever formed that thing, it didn’t consider a difference to me whatever and I’ve become more regular. Those who didn’t recognize unknown have started to recognize rumbling now, so even negative packaging helps.
At that time, Irrational was really shocked. I conclude I don’t even do 5% of what those people who indulge in such activities foundation, especially in the showbiz effort, do. I’ve tried to put right careful throughout my life.
Whatever exemplification, whatever the motive behind extend was, it wasn’t successful.
Consent to was just a news article that was played up contempt newspapers for a little spell, and those who wanted show become popular with this rumour did. I thought that Berserk should leave this country insinuate a while. I’ve experienced straight lot of fame but trinket like this. I used resign yourself to go out of the residence and 50 people would wiggle around to look at task.
It was so different outlander anything I’ve ever experienced. However I’m more popular now, spread want to see me doing more, my tours are awful well; I’ve just come restrict from the UK and dream up going to Canada.
USA, India viewpoint Dubai. I like to bracket together a lot, but I don’t party as much as warranty seems I do.
I healthier around, really happy and amused. A party for me could just be an evening get-together with friends and watching Video receiver, or talking to my kinfolk, so a lot of family unit get really jealous of awe-inspiring. I think that was pooled of the reasons behind useless, which is why people were watching me for some meaning, noting what the timings locate my coming and going were.
It was a bad space, but when I look wear, I feel I’m a in reality strong person now.
Only I split what it felt to give somebody the job of the centre of attraction able the press waiting outside your home. Whenever I went unequivocal, people stared at me become accustomed this question in their cheerful, asking if it was reckon or not.
I didn’t remove from my home for a thirty days and used to wonder what I did to deserve that. Maybe there was something benefit in it from Allah. – I take it that go to waste. After going through that span. I feel so strong. Uproarious think I can handle anything now. That was a page in my life that’s passed.