- Gao, Suno, Badlo, a musical campaign for equality, democracy and solidarity, releases song for women empowerment
Social stages Mishermayl and AAWAZ Voice and Accountability Programme held hands to discharge the first track out of their six melody collection activity Gao Suno Badlo (GSB).
“Kaun Kehta Hai Mein Beyikhtiyar Hoon” was released on February 12th to honour the struggle put up by women’s rights activists in Pakistan. The day marks an important milestone in the history of women’s movement in Pakistan, when women protested at Mall Road Lahore in 1983, and successfully challenged the promulgation of the Law of Evidence by the military dictator Ziaul Haq.
Soon after its release, the song went viral on the social media and immediately recorded over 33k hits on its web link.
The GSB team for the song includes Executive Producer and Composer Ali Aftab Saeed, Vocalist Zainab Fatima, Lyricist Aaliya Mirza, Song Producer Saad Sultan and Video Director Farhan Adeel.
According to the GSB team, the major objectives of this project is to initiate a musical campaign to bring positive change in people’s attitudes towards the issues of exclusion of women and religious minorities, stability of democracy and contradictions of education system
The GSB campaign also aims at enhancing the understanding of these issues among common men and women and mobilise them to transform their attitudes and influence their surroundings.
“We think that the key questions that need to be addressed in current socio-political arena are that of exclusion, democracy and education. By exclusion we mean the exclusion of women, religious minorities and other marginalised segments of society in our daily life to the political decision making,” the GSB team producers explain.
Through GSB musical campaign, a pool of professional lyricists, musicians and singers will come together to develop people’s engagement with ideas of social and political change.
“There is a total of six songs, and we have released the first today. It will soon be followed by a song in March promoting inter-faith harmony and would be based on the story of deceased minister Shahbaz Bhatti. Then we’ll release another video in May on the International Labour Day highlighting the exploitation of labour,” said GSB’s Ali Aftab Saeed.