| "Ehtesaab" | ||||
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| Single by Junoon | ||||
| from the album Kashmakash | ||||
| Released | December 1996 | |||
| Recorded | 1994 | |||
| Genre | Alternative rock | |||
| Length | 2:32 (album version) 2:32 (video) | |||
| Label | EMI Pakistan | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Salman Ahmad | |||
| Producer(s) | Brian O'Connell, Salman Ahmad | |||
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"Ehtesaab" (Urdu: احتساب, literal English translation: "accountability") is the second track on the 1995 compilation album Kashmakash by the sufi rock band Junoon, and is the second single from the album. After the release of the band's first real big hit single "Jazba-e-Junoon", which was the song of the 1996 Cricket World Cup. "Ehtesaab" was their second hit and was released in December 1996. The video of the single was directed by Pakistani director, Shoaib Mansoor.
The controversial video release of the song mocked Pakistani politics and led to the video of the song being banned from PTV, Pakistan's State television. The video of the single also featured in BBC film The Princess and the Playboy, an exposé on Benazir's and her husband's reign.[1] In Newsweek, Carla Power dedicated a full-page story to Junoon with the headline "For God and Country."[2]
- ^ Assignment: The Princess and the Playboy Retrieved on July 22, 2010.
- ^ Rock & Roll Jihad Retrieved on July 22, 2010.