Islamabad: Pakistan National Council of the Arts (PNCA) organized one-day ‘Sufi Aman Mela’ (Sufi Peace Festival) with the aim to promote tolerance, brotherhood and interfaith harmony in the country, in which the performers -including Meena Gul, Sonia Azeem, Saien Mushtaq, Saira Tahir, Shaukat Manzoor, and Shabnam Majeed- put up brilliant show rendering Sufi poetry of various Sufi Saints in diverse languages.
The National Performing Arts Group (NPAG) students also with the scintillating performance of ‘Sufi Dance’ in various costumes with the background music spellbound the audience.
They performed on ‘Cheti Bori Wi Tabeeba’, ‘Aaj Rang Hai’, ‘Gharoli’, ‘Tery Rang Rang’, and ‘Dhamal’.
The first to appear on stage was Meena Gul, a renowned artist from KPK who sang ‘Maien Ni Mein Kinnu Aakhan, Dard Wichoray Da Haal Ni’, with her perfect Punjabi accent. The spectators seen whispering commenting though Gul is from KPK but her Punjabi accent is quite brilliant.
The other artists including Saira Tahir who has acquired her master degree in Music from Punjab University, as well as Sonia Azeem, Shaukat Manzoor, Saien Mushtaq, also song harmoniously the poetry of Sufis from Subcontinent to spread peace, love and tolerance.
In between, Saien Mushtaq, who has roamed across the world and his booming enchantment of ‘King Wajda, Tara Wajda’ and delight of Shaukat Manzur, a local artist from Potohar region. The audience had a chance to listen and appreciate a wide range of music artists from this region.
The spectators however, got annoyed that there was no Qawwali music in the Sufi night. They also were surprised over the selection of Sufi songs.
“We turned up here to listen our favourite kalam from Iqbal ‘La Phir Ik Baar Wohi Bada-o-Jaam ay Saqi, Haath A jay Mujhay tera Makam Ay Saqi’, sung by Shabnam Majeed but she also couldn’t please us,” said Oheed Ahmed a young Sufi poetry/ music lover.
The performers of NPAG also provided the mood for the ‘Punjabi Dhamal’ dance, which insists the spectators gone whirling similarly seen to the Sufis shrines with offering beating their own drums.
Shabnam Majeed from Lahore concluded the night with ‘Dama Dam Mastt Qalandar’.
The Sufi Night was an extension of Sufi music project, which PNCA started from Multan in 2010, taking it forward to Hyderabad, Karachi, and then returning to federal capital.
This year’s presentation was the continuation of the same project with the core theme on seeking harmony within the land, which we find disturbed in the horrendous calamity of natural disaster in Sindh and killings of innocent people in Dir, Amber Shah, an official of PNCA said.
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