finaly, ktsk music releases

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by E.S.

A number of Lollywood stars and film personalities showed up at the music launching ceremony of Reema Khan's film 'Koi tujh sa kahaan' on Wednesday to express solidarity with the actress turned director. The music has been released by UK based company Movie Box.
'Koi tujh sa kahan' marks Reema's debut as film director and producer. The film was completely shot in Malaysia and will be released on August 12. The cast includes Reema herself, Moamar Rana, Nadeem Baig, Veena Malik, UK based model Simran Kauchak, Irfan Khoosat, Babrak Shah and Nasir Hassan. Music director of the film was late Amjad Bobby. Ahmed Aqeel Ruby has written the lyrics while Bollywood playbacks Udit Narayan, Sharia Ghoshal, Alka, Jaspidra Narola and Alka have sung the songs. Solinder Sodhi has given background music. Khalilur Rehman Qamar wrote the script and dialogues while Saroj Khan assisted by Raishma and Sushma did the choreography. Technical facilities at Lakdawala's Studios in Mumbai and Cine Color Lab in Bangkok were used for postproduction.
Prominent among those who were present at the music launching held at a hotel in Lahore included Sangeeta, Syed Noor, Mustafa Qureshi, Shan, Bahar Begum, Khalil Rana, Ghulam Mohyuddin, Umar Sharif, Altaf Hussain and Chairman Pakistan Film Censor Board Ziauddin. Members of the film crew and cast including Moamar Rana, Babrak Shah, Khalilur Rehman Qamar and Waqar Bukhari were also present. The film promo and clipping of some songs were shown.
All the film personalities praised Reema for making a film to help revive the film industry. Ziauddin while giving tributes to Reema revealed that he had received a letter from the Federal Ministry of Culture about a directive issued during Ziaul Haq era that movies made with any kind of assistance from India cannot be exhibited in Pakistan. "I have written back to the ministry to make certain whether the directive is still valid. If it is valid Reema's film cannot be exhibited even for a single day.
"I hope the ministry takes up the matter favourably as Reema and other producers have invested a lot of money and they are serious in their efforts to revive the film industry. They should be allowed to exhibit their films," he said.
He disclosed that recently a delegation from India had suggested that Indian Film Festival should be held here. "We asked them to first hold of Pakistan Film Festival in India first," Ziauddin said.
It may be mentioned here that music of most big budget Pakistani movies made in the last few years was prepared in Bollywood and these films also featured songs of Indian playback singers. The trend started in 2003 with Jawed Sheikh's film 'Yeh dil aap ka hua'. Music of films like 'Salakhein' and 'Kyon tum say itna pyar hai' and many others was also prepared in Mumbai. Pop singer Jawad Ahmed is in Mumbai these days to prepare music for film 'Phir lott kay aaon ga'. The Culture Ministry turned a blind eye to the situation and only now the Chairman of the Censor Board has sounded this ominous warning.
Patriotic citizens would say better late than never, but the process has not been handled sensibly. The Board needs to ensure that future productions at least are free from this menace.