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ISLAMABAD/LAHORE/KARACHI/PESHAWAR/QUETTA – As part of their attempt to generate awareness about the discrimination, persecution, violence and often existential threats that members of the respective communities face, nation’s minorities are preparing renditions of old Lollywood tracks, The Dependent has reliably learnt.
Performers from the communities have confirmed that these musical covers are part of a mass awareness campaign which would be pitched to Coke Studio hoping that it would be aired.
“Should they turn it down, we can always look for countless other musical platforms launched by various brands just so our tracks can reach out,” a guitarist from a persecuted minority still awaiting recognition told this scribe.
“If nothing else, we would love to get the human rights minister to use the words ‘horrendous’ and ‘should not be allowed’ with regards to what has been happening to us for decades,” added the bassist of a religious minority that has been the victim of Constitutional apartheid in the country.
Those preparing renditions of Lollywood classics include religious, gender, class, ethnic, sexual, and several other categories of minorities.
When contacted, officials of Coke Studio confirmed that they’re already airing tracks by members of a minority.
“Most of the artists that we promote belong to the minority group of nation’s elite, and we’re happy in playing our part in bringing the voice of that small fraction of the national population to the masses,” an official said.
