MY GREEN VALLEY!-QAZO'S NEW INTERVIEW

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samita

@doc.sam

Dazzler

Posted: 19 years ago

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My green valley

Twenty questions on J&K with Qazi Touqeer and you're none the wiser.

Lalitha Suhasini

WHILE Kashmir was quaking, Srinagar's newest poster boy was stirring up his own storm on a reality show. The news hit home only when a television channel called him for a byte. ''We weren't allowed to read the papers or watch TV and I didn't even have access to a phone,'' defends Qazi Touqeer. He's bound by a two-year contract with Sony Music and hopes to do a show in Srinagar for the quake victims, involving all the Fame Gurukul finalists. ''But nothing is in my hands,'' he adds rather dramatically.

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The Fame Gurukul winner mouths lines like "Maine toh abhi duniya dekhi hi nahin (I'm yet to see the world)" for effect, but after a chat you realise that Touqeer has lived in sweet oblivion for 20 years. Ask him about being born in Srinagar at a time when social unrest was at its peak, and he talks about untapped talent back home because of ''lack of facilities.'' Err, India's very own Bo Bice is as disconnected from the rest of the world as the next Bollywood hero wannabe. His vision of the Valley is right out of a photograph that his dada had showed him when he was a kid. ''Yeh shaayad nabbe saal purani hogi (Maybe it's 90 years old),'' he says of the idyllic view of Kashmiris in pherans, carrying kangdis on a snowy evening. And while the rest of the world has been shocked by the shellings and blood-stained streets, Touqeer confesses that he'd rather look at the other side. ''I've never witnessed a killing. We used to run out of our college whenever there was news of a bombing,'' says the SP College alumni, seeming rather distracted. He politely reminds you of his show and his one-point agenda in life. ''I've been bindaas shooting myself with a Sony handycam at the Mughal gardens,'' he says, sounding more like a Bambaiyya than the son of a lawyer-turned-Sufi buff. Ironically, he never wanted to be a singer and rambles on about having memorised tragic hero Devdas' famous words Kaun kambakth bardaash karne ko peeta hai.... ''Mujhe toh sangeet ka sa re ga ma pa nahin aata hai (I don't know the basics of music),'' he says. A young girl who's walking her Alsatian and has got wind of Touqeer's recording comes over. ''Actually I don't like you at all, but my mother's a big fan and will be very happy if she knows I said hi to you,'' she says. Unfazed, he thanks her and tells her that he likes her spirit. Nothing seems to burst that bubble of hedonism. Not even the news of a new chief minister for J&K. ''Oh you're the first one to tell me about it,'' he says wide-eyed. The modern day Devdas is too busy making his own headlines.

SOURCE:http://cities.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=155908

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Aparna

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Posted: 19 years ago

Thank you...sweet Qazi... 😆

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samita

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Posted: 19 years ago

Originally posted by: fire_on_ice
Thank you...sweet Qazi... 😆

yah he is schoo protected n un aware of the world😛hehe

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Saphire

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Posted: 19 years ago

the author described qazi sort of negatively?

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bilu

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Posted: 19 years ago

Not at all negatively, but it is the portrayal of a true artist who is very focused and is oblivious to things happening around him!! Good going Qazi!! 👏 👏 !!

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