JAL, the rock band from Pakistan after hitting with their song 'Aadat' is now all set with their new album named "Boondh" – a drop of JAL.

Q. Tell us about your experience after coming to India?
A. It feels very nice, whenever we come to India we get so much love and respect from everyone and after coming to Mumbai, we didn't have time to sit for a while and relax with our rehearsals and the two three performances we had was wonderful.

We saw a record crowd on weekends. Mumbai's crowd, the Bollywood bindass crowd have supported us so much that it really feels very nice to be here.

Q. What was the reason to take Amrita Rao in the song of your album? How was it working with her?
A. Amrita is a brand ambassador and so are we, of the same brand in Pakistan, and this is how things clicked between us.

Apart from this, this is the first time that Jal a Pakistani band is working with an Indian actress in the music video of its album which was shot in India with Indian crowd and it was a wonderful experience altogether.

When Amrita told us that she is a big fan of ours and when she told that she listens to the song Chalte Chalte (the music video of which she is in)every morning when she gets up, we felt really nice.

We are proud that she worked in this video and we have become thick friends, so much so that we used to discuss Indo- Pak issues.

We discussed many things with Amrita and told her many things about Pakistan which she didn't know and Amrita, Insha Allah will come to Pakistan soon in one of the Jal`s performances which will also be different for the Pakistanis also. We will try to fill all the gaps between the two countries slowly in this way.

Q. Your on screen chemistry with Amrita has developed into off screen also, is it true?
A. I think Pakistan-India issues are very sensitive and every one tries to catch something or the other from such things, but honestly nothing like that is between us.

We had a good chemistry off screen also but it was up to a certain limit, and she made us feel comfortable while shooting. See we are a musical band not professional actors and she used to come and teach us some dance steps, some acting tips.

So the people who saw all these took it the other way and later, I too read about all these, but it's not like that. And when India-Pakistan relationship is going in a better way, we should avoid these kind of things.

We would like to clarify that all these rumors are not true. We are very good friends and nothing else apart from this.

Q. Why did you name your band JAL?
A. We thought we should go with the image as you know that 70% of the world is water and nobody can live without water, so we thought that we will make songs that will be liked by people and nobody would be able to live without listening to our songs and then water makes its own way wherever it goes.

So our music will make its own way wherever it will go, so that was the ideology with which we started, and it is working so far.

Q. How and when did the band form?
A. We are three members in our band viz., Farhan Saeed, Gohar Mumtaz and Shazi. It was in 2002 when we started with this first song Aaddat.

"I used to perform in my college as a guitarist and a singer at that time and Farhan used to perform in his college where he was doing his BCA. I had a dream to make a band and after we formed it, we made the song Aadat and uploaded it.

We didn't have money to make a music video at that time because we were students and from there (internet) people started liking the song Aadat and I think that was the first song from Pakistan which got publicity from internet, then we made the video, then we had a get-together in summer," says Gohar

Q. How did you meet each other?
A. Shazi and Gohar used to jam together and Shazi is connected to music for more than ten years now, I was performing in my college for my farewell and one of our common friend heard me and he said that there is a guy called Gohar who has some good songs and asked me to call him.

I called him and we met and jammed for half an hour and after that the very next day we were performing in Islamabad.

It was a nice experience as we did not know anything about each other except our names, and I used to forget half of the lyrics, but we were performing because Aadat was an instant hit then and the colleges were getting crazy about this.

After we came back we did record a song Woh Lamhe and made its video and put it on air immediately. The song was a hit in all Pakistani channels and it remained at number one position for more than 7 to 8 weeks.

That was the boost we needed and we got the best band award, the best song award, best composer, best lyricist awards in the same awards function.

Q. Do you have a Girl friend?
A. We have a lot of friends, but no girl friend as such. We don't have girl friends in our dictionary (laughs).

Q. How does it feel to be a brand ambassador of Gibson, the guitar company in U.S.A.?
A. It feels great and I feel very proud of it. I think it is an achievement for all the band members and all the fan,s so I am really happy about it.

Q. After Aadat now you have come up with Boondh after a long time, so why was this delay?
A. I think it is a normal delay. If you see STRINGS, I mean they released Dhaani before Aadat and they have not released anything after that, so it depends.

Q. What are your next plans?
A. First we plan to go to Pakistan, then to Shangri-La and to Bangkok.

Lets see, but this summer we are going to Canada where we have a concert on 15th of June and then to States and then in New York, as there are lot of Pakistanis out there. We will also have a get-together for summer where we will stay in Canada for a while.

Q. Any plans for acting in Hindi films or do you want to be in television?
A. I will definitely do Hindi films and at the same time if something interesting comes to me in television, I will definitely do that also. I will work in both television and films together.

Q. What other projects are you currently working in?
A. A lot of things is there in the pipeline but I can't talk about that right now. I will talk about them when the appropriate time comes. - Sabir Rahman