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Pakistanis can’t get over ’70s Bollywood. Junaid Safdar’s viral wedding song is proof

Posted on September 8, 2021
Screengrab of Junaid Safdar singing at his marriage ceremony | Picture credit score: Twitter


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New Delhi: Pakistanis and Bollywood songs are inseparable. This was proved as soon as once more when Pakistan Muslim League(N) vice-president Maryam Nawaz’s son Junaid Safdar sang a ’70s Mohammad Rafi track at his marriage ceremony. Now, the video has gone viral and Safdar has been trending on Pakistani Twitter ever since. Folks can’t cease speaking about his singing expertise, and gushing and crushing on him.

The film was Hum Kisise Kum Naheen (1977), and the track was Kya Hua Tera Wada. Not precisely a marriage track, as Mehr Tarar tweeted. However Pakistanis can’t recover from ’70s Bollywood, it seems.

Safdar married Ayesha Saif Khan in London on 23 August.

It’s secure to say that his vocals and selection of track received hearts.

Strings frontman Bilal Maqsood even gave the newlywed “full marks” for his singing expertise, however appeared dissatisfied with the flower decor and puzzled if it was from his tax cash.

There was fairly a buzz about it on social media.

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‘Crush’ and a ‘coronary heart of gold’

Most social media customers appeared to understand former Pakistan PM Nawaz Sharif’s grandson’s “mesmerising voice”, tweeting that they’ll maybe “not recover from it anytime quickly”.

Whereas there have been Twitter customers like Nosheen who puzzled in the event that they have been “crushing over Junaid Safdar”, others targeted on Safdar’s “coronary heart of gold”, past the “beauty”.

Ihtisham Ul Haq, a London-based Pakistani journalist, mentioned that the groom has “critical singing expertise”.

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Not all followers, although

The appreciation for Junaid Safdar and his singing expertise wasn’t restricted to Twitter. His movies are doing the rounds on Instagram as effectively, with Pakistan-based life-style journalist Maliha Rehman calling him a “good-looking groom” whose data of Mohammed Rafi songs appears to be an enormous bonus.

Within the feedback sections, some mentioned that his spouse is “fortunate” to have him. A number of celebrities — Saboor Aly, Sana Javed, Zoya Nasir and Iffat Omar — additionally reacted to the video with a “waah”. VJ-turned-actor Anoushey Ashraf mentioned, “That is candy. It’s making me like him. Stoppp!”

In the meantime, some others known as it “impolite” that even after “paying” for the marriage, they weren’t invited.

Amid the praises, there have been additionally some who appeared sad.

Twitter person Maham Malik said, “I don’t perceive what Junaid Safdar has performed that he’s on the high of the pattern?? Unusual Pakistani folks have no idea why such individuals are sitting on their heads.”

“How lengthy earlier than Paki women show innocence of sharif household simply bcs junaid safdar sings effectively,” one other person mentioned.

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