Home again, Junoon sings in streets

<div class="section1"><div class="Normal">BASSI PATHANAN (Fatehgarh Sahib): Salman Ahmad, guitarist and song-writer of Pakistan''s rock group <span style="" font-style:="" italic="">Junoon</span>, and his brother Sharyar sang songs in the streets of this small town on Tuesday: <span style="" font-style:="" italic="">yaro yehi dosti hai, kismet se jo mili hai; chalo sang sang chalein, har rang chalein</span>.<br /><br />So moved were they after visiting the town, which is the birthplace of their mother Shaheena Khan, that they also decided to make a film on the "emotional relationship" between the people of the two countries.<br /><br />Salman said, besides Lahore, <span style="" font-style:="" italic="">Ghoomta Aeena</span> would be shot at Qila Mubarak of Patiala and Ashraf Manzil, his ancestral <span style="" font-style:="" italic="">haveli</span>, here.<br /><br />While trying to locate the haveli, which is now in ruins, they met a local resident, Sham Lal, who was a close friend of their maternal grandfather Aziz Khan. They went inside the haveli with him and Sham Lal told them of the time he spent with "Khan Sahib". <br /><br />Ahmad and Shahryar also went to meet Rajesh Pal Singh Lalli who spent his childhood days in the <span style="" font-style:="" italic="">haveli</span> after Partition, when Shaheena Khan''s family had left for Pakistan.<br /><br />Sharyar said they had a long-standing desire to visit Bassi Pathanan. "Let us forget the bitter past and join hands which is necessary for both our countries," he said. <br /><br />"One visit does not seem to be enough," Salman told TNN, "we hope to be back here next month with our mother."<br /><br /><formid=367815><br /> </formid=367815></div> </div>