Daily Times

LAHORE: After the grand success of Qurram Hussain’s latest composition “Bagiya”, another track of the Josh band lead singer and a music composer has been included in the upcoming musical romance, ‘Rangreza’, to spice up the onscreen romance of Bilal Ashraf and Urwa Hocane.

This time, it’s a qawwali titled “Janasheen” which would be unveiled next a week before the film’s release ie on December 21, 2017. Qurram AKA Q has produced four albums for his Josh band, jingles for a leading cell-phone company, a track for an Indian film and also a couple of OSTs for Pakistani dramas, but ‘Rangreza’ is his first Pakistani movie as music director and playback singer.

How can one forget Josh’s desi remixes “Exotic” for Bollywood celebrity Priyanka Chopra, “Promiscuous girl” with Nelly Furtado and Timbaland, Baan Far Kay with Sukhbir Singh and “Kama” for DJ Domeno. But these days, Qurram, the brain behind all this Josh’s music, is seemed be more inclined towards the traditional music. His compositions “Desan da raja” with Komal Rizvi and “Bagiya” are the perfect choice for the upcoming mehndi season.

And now Q is producing and singing a traditional qawwali style song for the first time.

The “Mahi Ve” singer says that he wrote “Janasheen” a few years ago, and it is about being so much in love that that person becomes your whole world.

“Because of this thought, I tried to try to produce it like a qawwali, and I felt that would fit with the emotion of the song best,” he added.

Sharing the story of “Janasheen” inclusion in movie, Qurram said that when Amir Mohiuddin, the director of ‘Rangreza’, heard the track, he immediately took a liking to it, because he saw its perfect connection in ‘Rangreza’. That’s how things work sometimes, every inspiration is meant to connect with the right project.

Qurram also revealed that he had not produced a qawwali style track before, so in order to do justice to it, he worked with a couple of great producers in Lahore, Sohail Abbas and Imran Khalil, both of who had produced stuffs in this genre, so together they found a balance of the real essence of a qawwali, and the slightly modern writing and sound that he wanted to achieve.

“‘Janasheen’ is a labour of love that has been years in the making, and I am so happy it’s found a home in ‘Rangreza’,” said Qurram.

Qurram also revealed that he was currently looking for a female voice for an OST of a drama serial. “I have composed a new song for new drama project, and I am looking for voice that could suit the genre of the song,” he said.

Published in Daily Times, November 21^st 2017.