All we can say is, well played Taher Shah. Well. played.
The man, the myth, the legend. The music extraordinaire who kept Pakistanis on social media on edge when he sent this innocuously worded tweet two days back.
1 Day to Go pic.twitter.com/4gvUBRoSdM
— TAHER SHAH (@TaherShahh) April 9, 2020
For one whole day, people from the Land of the Pure waited and waited for mankind’s angel to make things right again. They patiently waited for that one song that could soothe a panicked populace. They expected a… miracle.
But Taher Shah, this man knows how to work up his fans I tell ya. In a world where our attention spans have become shorter with every passing day, this man decided to play games with us. Not cool, man. Not cool!
And then, we all did what we do in these trying times. We gave up. We resigned ourselves to our sorry fates.
And then, the clock almost struck midnight on April 11th (too close man, too close). And lo and behold! The Farishta (angel) cometh!
THIS FARISHTA HAS GOT OUR BACKS!
#TaherShah
"FARISHTA" SONG BY TAHER SHAH
CHILDREN ARE THE ANGELS OF THE EARTHhttps://t.co/WXDEvyJbgw pic.twitter.com/0N7B2BBddW— TAHER SHAH (@TaherShahh) April 10, 2020
Farishta spawns a new meme
So yeah. Taher Shah is back. With another music video that trades in his garish and tacky fashion sense for some CGI generated poetry in motion. Hey, we can’t blame the guy here for trying ok? He is taking this social distancing thing very seriously these days, which explains the nature of his current music video. And its time we did too.
The man is trying to save us in his own unique way. We better listen to him.
So listen we did. And boy his fans (and haters) got a ton of comments for him already!
Say what you will about Taher Shah, but the man has brought us all together again.
Like clockwork, the memes started to roll in.
https://twitter.com/tarraqipasand/status/1248690910738645003?s=20
me going to check what’s in the fridge for the 273837th time pic.twitter.com/vPOrt6FjeX
— 𝐆𝐨𝐦𝐳 ❤️🩹 (@KomzHolmes) April 10, 2020
When you love someone so much you see their reflection everywhere. What a beautiful message. pic.twitter.com/CE4SN60zLx
— Shumail (@Shumyl) April 10, 2020
me ready to fall for people outside my league pic.twitter.com/naatWn6PvO
— Faizan 🇵🇸 (@thoraoffbeat) April 10, 2020
me praying for my crush to text me back pic.twitter.com/FyStA9zs0O
— Faizan 🇵🇸 (@thoraoffbeat) April 10, 2020
Me: OK this is it ab se mei diet pe no compromise
*Walls walay ki music plays outside*
Me: pic.twitter.com/yIhF5h5dgt
— Ahmer Naqvi (@karachikhatmal) April 10, 2020
Waiting for Ali Sethi to do a cover of this https://t.co/c1Z0AM7VzM
— Blue on Blue (@RavensLaire) April 10, 2020
It didn’t take too long for things to get real edgy real fast:
— Shumail (@Shumyl) April 10, 2020
https://twitter.com/waqas_x/status/1248690934755164160?s=20
on my way to steal yo hoe pic.twitter.com/0hngLCMtA9
— saad. (@chimgadar) April 10, 2020
How I wanna be with someone's son pic.twitter.com/lMIqxvuc6b
— b (@KhaNuBya) April 10, 2020
https://twitter.com/waqas_x/status/1248687252051570689?s=20
*Quaid e Azam https://t.co/ZsJoCqfbXP
— Rao (@CasualRao) April 10, 2020
Oh ok…. maybe this whole optimism thing needs to be toned down a wee little bit. People are hating they got trolled for what is actually the Urdu version of Angel.
Ok Taher Shah, you tried. Someday people are going to look back to this moment… and they are going to realize that they were wrong about everything. Hell, people still talk about Angel, and that was a lifetime ago.
Now if you don’t mind, someone needs to finish their thesis on ‘Taher Shah and his transformative effect on Pakistani music culture.’
Until then, listen to this on repeat. Listen to Taher Shah taking you to la la land. It’s right there in the lyrics!
LA LA LA LA – LA LA LA LA LA….FARISHTA…
All things besides but Mr Sameer you need to look into the language used eg f….k, s……t.
Good try but not impressed. His English is terrible.
Exactly!