Bangladeshi diva Runa Laila is well and away in Hyderabad for the nine-day Times of India Festival. Today, she will rock Hyderabad with her evergreen hit “Dama Dam Mast Kalandhar”, songs in Bangla and Punjabi, Urdu ghazals and more at the Qutub Shahi Tombs. She is accompanied by eight Bangladesh musicians.
Runa is busy on another front too. She is to be one of the jury members for a music reality show to go on Sahara One. The show is a first for Indian television, as two six-member teams from India and Pakistan respectively will be up against each other to fight the battle of supremacy in music. Other proposed judges are Ghulam Ali and Abida Parveen (Pakistan); Ismail Darbar, Suresh Wadkar and Jatin Pandit (India)
All the matches will be played on the neutral ground of Dubai and the shoot for the 24-episode reality show will be held there.
Elimination of a team member would essentially depend upon the judges’ marks.
-With The Daily Star input
