This Coke Commercial was made for 1996 Cricket World Cup. Amazing visuals depicting “RED” as the color of “JOSH”…this commercial features Legendary Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan’s “Dum Mast Kalandar” track…And truly captures the essence of INDIA and Indians and their love for the game…..Great Commercial…
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Tag Archives: Nusrat And Cricket
Best All-Rounder since Botham?
A great behind the scenes look at Nusrat’s Life in Pakistan, an article from 1996 by David Toop , the title describes the All Round composer/singer/performer NFAK, referring to British Cricket Legend Ian Botham..
A Night With Nusrat: An Odd Place for an Epiphany
It was a late Friday afternoon in 1990 when I got a call at the Los Angeles Times office inviting me to see a show by Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan that evening. The qawwali master was performing in, of all places, a conference room at the LAX Airport Hilton, headlining a benefit to help build a cancer hospital in Lahore, Pakistan, hosted by that nation’s cricket hero Imran Khan.
How We Won the World Cup – “‘We played Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan all the time”
Wasim Akram talking about Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
In today’s video treat, Wasim Akram remembers how the team won the World Cup & How much obsessed they were with “Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan” . It was 1992, and cricketers like Javed Miandad were already die-hard NFAK fans. NFAK himself started taking interest in cricket those days as he was becoming a good friend of the Pakistani cricket team. Just before the team left home for World-Cup, NFAK personally recorded many songs specially for the team on request of Javed Miandad. Team played these songs pretty much every time (before match-after match, during practice sessions, during breaks and of course to celebrate the victory)…
We all know the result of World Cup…. “The team brought the trophy home”
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