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Inquilaab
After belting it out for six years as the scene's leading guitar-driven Pop-Rock
cult attraction and an enthusiastic bunch of left-field angry-young-men (with a
solid anti- "Dil, Dil Pakistan" socio-political anthem, "Talaash" [1993] to
boot), Junoon finally broke-through the mainstream scene with the highly
versatile & passionate Sufi-Rock bombshell, Inquilaab. An album on which the
band took leader/guitarist Salman Ahmed's catchy, off-the-wall riffs and clashed
them head-on with raving Sindhi/Sufi-folk-music ("Sain"; "Mahi"); Floydian
introversion ("Rooh Ki Pyaas"); the ambitious intoxicated-Rushdie-Filmi-Pop-meets-Rush-like-Progressive-Rock
("Neeli Aankhain"); and their pumped-up, U2ish & Zeppelinsque "Spiritual
Revolution" chestnut ("Main Kon Hoon"). Inquilaab stands and walks tall (in
spite the fact that it also contains cash-in patriotic-pop-anthems like "Jazba-e-Junoon"
and misguided missiles like the directionless rock remake of an old Jupiters'
song .... plus the fact that the band was about to get itself into a messy,
contradictory situation by loudly making paranoid, right-wing Hamid-Gul-type
political statements and as well as "revolutionary" and "spiritual" appeals
while sitting pretty and smugly on a lucrative and cynically-packaged Coke
contract!). Well, after making it really big with the patchy Azadi and the
powerful Parvaaz, Junoon, with last year's lame, tame and Coke-addicted Ishq,
unfortunately, have now only managed to let all their passionate hard-work
burn-out with a whimper.
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