A 27 yr old Fantasy!

My dad had lots of friends who were working in Dubai. Also my sister’s (cousin) dad was in Dubai,too. So we had one of those silver colored Sony stereo cassette player that blinked light green lights according to the beats of the songs (in the cassette) playing. I was just 3 yrs old when I would look at that blinking beats for hours without anything to eat or drink. The year was 1980, and it was the boom of Disco. Apart from Boney M and ABBA, the one song that made the blinking lights go wild (and me too!) with beats was this song…
Disco Deewane – Nazia Hassan.



Even at the young age of 3 , I could evaluate the beauty of the woman pictured in the cover of that cassette (see the pic above?).
Wow! How much I loved to look like her when I grew up. I loved her everything. I loved the way she held the mike. I loved the way the light made her brown hair go red (I still have fascination for red hair, though I see lots here in Ireland-original and colored!). I even loved her khaki dungarees and the way she held her hair in a lose braid, with a slight tilt. I badly, badly wanted to be her.

Of course my 1.5 yr old cousin didn’t share my fantasy to become Nazia Hassan. So I was left alone in my fantasy world of me singing with the blinking lights, when I grow up. (It was one of the many fantasies I am thankful, that never came true!). I think I shared the awe till I went to proper school when I was six, and found my self bombarded with more things much intriguing than Nazia Hassan.

But as childhood thingies never fade off completely, now when I am nearly 30, I had this déjà vu, of Nazia Hassan, which made me google her name last Friday. I was shocked to find that she passed away in 2000, at 35 yrs of age, still angelically beautiful! I got some of her songs from Pakistani music sites.



I almost cried when I came to know that she passed away in 2000. And now my ipod and computer plays only Nazia Hassan songs(at least, till I get over that!). Another tribute to my 27 yrs old fantasy!