“If I had to disable you with just one part of my body,” Taher Shah announces apropos of nothing, lowering his shades as ice cubes crackle in his lemonade, “I would use my eyes.”
I look away, dipping my hand into the pool at Shah’s Sindh estate. Rich, fatty sauces drift lazily off of my fingertips, layering in rows across the surface of the artificially cooled water.
He’s not really going to disable me, I think.
Still, I’ve been here too long. I should get out … of this dream world wherein I traveled to Pakistan to profile Taher Shah.
I have actually not yet met this summer’s international pop sensation-in-the-making. I requested an interview but am still waiting. Maybe it’s all part of the mystique.
Taher Shah’s digital tail is short, almost eating itself. The most credible Twitter account in his name (Or is it this one? There are impostors) was just opened at the end of April, and it is little more than an exaltation of the human eye.
The one thing we know for sure about the self-describedsinger/lyricist/writer/model/actor/producer/director/businessman is that he has a super-hot single. Despite YouTube being banned in his home country, his recently released debut “classic epic song and video” has already been viewed half a million times around the world.
If you haven’t seen it, here it is. I don’t think there’s really anything I can say to prepare you.The single is entitled “Eye to Eye” (“Ankhon he Ankhon Mei” in Urdu). Yes, a good amount of it is him looking pretty longingly at another incarnation of himself. He also lays claim to your heart without regard for your perspective on the matter. (“Your heart is mine because I love you.”) But let’s not get on him about syntax; any effort at working multilingually is a noble one.
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Posted By F. Sheikh