The Great Mall Concerts - Talat Aziz: Events in Hyderabad

REVIEW FOR THE GREAT MALL CONCERTS...

Organizing a ghazal night at a mall is not perhaps the greatest of ideas. There
are too many extraneous sounds and disturbances to relish the music, and it inconveniences
the performer and the listeners equally. And it makes the performer exclaim, "Can
I have reverb in the monitor, please? It's very dry."

Richly clad in a royal black Jodhpur coat, our very own Hyderabadi hunk, Talat
Aziz, still gave his best today at the Necklace Road. The down-to-earth, experienced
and broad-minded musician just loves Hyderabad, and, as he puts it, needs to just
cook up a bahana to be in this city. And after being a witness to his talent,
you feel it needn't even be that way.

Now the Mall might appear rather early for its time, but the Hyderabadi seldom is. It was a typical Hyderabadi beginning with people hurriedly moving around well after the scheduled time, and not caring to sit even after he began. And his first song was just apt for the scene and the venue: "Ab kya ghazal sunao tujhe dekhne ke baad