Aima Baig has garnered quite the following after her performances on Coke Studio. The singer got quite the spot last year at the PSL closing ceremony and made a return this year.
At the opening ceremony of PSL, in Dubai, she sang a cover of Nazia Hassan’s iconic song, ‘Disco Deewane’.
This cover became controversial when Nazia’s brother, Zoheb Hassan, claimed that no one from PSL or PCB got in touch with this regarding the rights to this song.
A few days back, Zoheb announced that with his permission, the PSL closing ceremony would include a tribute to his late sister, Nazia Hassan.
I am pleased to offer our song Dosti to @thepslt20. It will feature along with Disco Deewane as a special Tribute to my (late) sister Nazia Hassan at the HBLPSL Closing Ceremony in Karachi.
— Zoheb Hassan (@zoheb_hassan) March 12, 2019
The singer of choice was Aima Baig. The singer sang ‘Teri Meri Dosti’ on her own, while Shuja Haider joined her on stage for ‘Disco Deewane’.
You can watch her entire performance here:
Pakistanis were not all too pleased.
WHAT THE FUCK AIMA BAIG#psl
— anasali12🇵🇰 (@anasali129) March 17, 2019
People do not want to see a repeat of this next year.
dear PSL. next year bhi agar Sufisal/ aima baig jese thakkay huwe admio ko bulana hai to openning ceremony mat kro.
— Ahsan 🇵🇰 (@AHS20022) March 17, 2019
Who doesn’t love some aaloo in every dish?
Jese aloo ko har sabzi mein thora thora daal dete hain,
Wesi Aima Baig ko har PSL ceremony mein thora thora daal dete hain. #PSLFinal pic.twitter.com/86NgWfExKa— Chatter_box (@ArzooETamanna1) March 17, 2019
Suggestions were being given for the next PSL.
Khumaryan would have rocked that opening ceremony instead of that over rated AIMA Baig and Fawad Khan.
PSL event manager should have learned from the awful opening ceremony but No they gave us yet another pathetic closing ceremony. #PSLFinal #HBLPSL
— Wahab Saba (@WahabSaba9) March 17, 2019
DISCO. DEEWANE. IS. NOT. IRRELEVANT.
Aima Baig singing Disco Deewanae and other irrelevant songs on the stage of #PSL! WOW!
— Afreen Jaffery (@Offfrin) March 17, 2019
People were calling this an all-around disappointment.
Nazia Hassan is an icon that cannot be copied.
There was a lot of upset over Aima ruining their favorite song.
People also had an issue with the fact Aima sang the same song twice- at the opening and closing ceremonies. Clearly the organizers at PSL really wanted to make it up to Zoheb Hassan when he initially spoke out against them, but it might have resulted in an overkill. That was then topped off with an apparently not-so-great performance by Aima Baig.
What did you think of her performance?
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