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Journalism of Courage
Tell US about your album, Komal? Give Komal RizVi the cue, and see the veejay who8217;s also the new kid in the overcrowded block of Indipop take off on what her debut album, Komal, means to her. Punctuation taking a toss, row of crystal bindis sparkling on her forehead, she gushes: 8220;It8217;s an amalgamation of my life, my work, my feelings. I8217;ve worked really hard at it, non-stop, for three months.8221;
Each lyric, each melody, in the papri-chaat of Punjabi and Hindi ballads and foot-tappers that make up this musical effort, has little bits of her soul in it. Or so this energetic twenty-something from Karachi, currently riding the popularity charts with her first single, Baujee, would have you believe. 8220;Baujee could have been in any language, and I8217;d still sing it, because I loved the tune when I first heard it,8221; she says. And she8217;s not doing this for any commercial purpose acirc;euro;rdquo; 8220;I just clicked with it.8221; A pause later, she crows: 8220;It8217;s totally me.8221;
Homesickness happens often, but Rizvi keeps her faith 8212; in herself, her parents, God, her music, humanity 8220;which, amazingly, is still there8221;. And though reviews of her album are only just trickling in, she insists: 8220;I project confidence, which comes only through faith. I can8217;t be sure of tonight8217;s performance she crooned to Annabellers recently, but I can be confident.8221; But if all else fails, she just runs up huge phone bills calling home.
Rizvi, you can tell, is smart. She8217;s also honest about what she doesn8217;t like. 8220;I read Sidney Sheldon, Virginia Andrews, but I don8217;t like reading up on politics and general knowledge. Frankly, it bores me.8221; What doesn8217;t ever bore this storehouse of spunk is music, of course. 8220;I really love music 8212; its my life, my passion, my career,8221; she says. Which is a good thing, for her star has just begun to rise.
