Disco Deewane

Disco Deewane (Urdu: ڈسکو دیوانے‎) is a 1981 Pakistani pop album sung by Pakistani duo Nazia and Zoheb, consisting of Nazia Hassan and her brother Zoheb Hassan.[1] The music was composed by Indian-origin British music director Biddu[2] who also produced it under the label of HMV India/Saregama. It charted in fourteen countries worldwide and became the best-selling Asian pop record to-date.[3] The debut album led Nazia Hasan to overnight fame. It changed trends in music across South Asia, where it broke sales records. In India, it sold 100,000 records within a day of its release in Mumbai alone, went Platinum within three weeks,[4][5] and went Double-Platinum soon after.[6] Disco Deewane went on to sell 14 million units worldwide.[7]

Disco Deewane
Studio album by Nazia Hassan & Zoheb Hassan
Released	April 3, 1981
Studio	HMV India / Saregama Ltd Calcutta Studio
Genre	Pakistani pop Indi-pop disco
Label	HMV India/SaReGaMa
Producer	Biddu
Nazia Hassan & Zoheb Hassan chronology
Disco Deewane (1981) Star/Boom Boom (1982)

In South Asia, where the music industry was previously dominated by filmi Bollywood soundtracks, Disco Deewaane was the first non-soundtrack album to become a major success across the region, paving the way for the emergence of independent Pakistani and Indian pop music scenes.[3][4] It was also the first South Asian pop album to top the charts in Brazil,[3] while also becoming a hit in Russia, South Africa, Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia and Latin America, and a success among the South Asian diaspora in regions such as Canada, the United Kingdom, United States, and West Indies.[5]

Track listing

Back cover of album "Disco Deewane"

No.	Title	Lyrics	Music	Singer(s)	Length
1.	"Aao Na"	Nazia Hassan and Zoheb Hassan	Biddu	Nazia Hassan	4:07
2.	"Disco Deewane" (I)	Anwar Khalid	Biddu	Nazia	4:00
3.	"Leykin Mera Dil"	Nazia and Zoheb	Biddu	Nazia	4:02
4.	"Mujhe Chahay"	MeeraJi	Biddu	Nazia and Zoheb	3:43
5.	"Komal"	Farooq Qaiser	Arshad Mehmood	Nazia	3:43
6.	"Teray Qadmon Ko"	Nigar Sebhai	Biddu	Nazia and Zoheb	3:30
7.	"Dil Mera"	Nazia and Zoheb	Biddu	Nazia	4:24
8.	"Dhundli Raat"	Meeraji	Zoheb and Mehmood	Nazia
9.	"Gaein Milkar"	Anwar Khalid	Zoheb and Mehmood	Nazia
10.	"Disco Deewane" (II)			Nazia	4:03

Credits

Music directors

Most of the songs were composed by Biddu [8]

• Biddu
• Arshad Mehmood
• Zoheb Hassan

Lyricists

• Nazia & Zoheb Hassan
• Anwar Khalid
• Meeraji
• Farooq Qaiser
• Nigar Sebhai[9]

Cover versions

Dreamer Deewane

Nazia Hassan performed a remixed cover version of title track "Disco Deewane" in the English language, called "Dreamer Deewane" (1983), which was released as a single. It became the first single by a Pakistani Female singer to enter the UK pop charts.[10]

The Disco Song

In 2012, a revamped cover version of the title song "Disco Deewane" was incorporated into the Indian Bollywood film Student of the Year.[11] Called "The Disco Song", it incorporates Nazia Hassan's vocals, along with the vocals of Sunidhi Chauhan and Benny Dayal, while the music video features Bollywood superstars, such as Alia Bhatt, Sidharth Malhotra, Varun Dhawan and Kajol.

Karan Johar used the song in his 2012 film Student of the Year after licensing the song from Sa Re Ga Ma. It has been contested by Nazia Hassan's family, as they claim that HMV doesn't own the album because it was financed by them in London.

References

1. The Herald, Volume 38, Issues 7-9, 2007: "It would not be amiss to say that music was never the same again after "Aap Jaisa Koi..." Over the next several years Nazia and Zoheb continued to rock not just the Pakistani but also the Indian disco scene. Disco Deewane that broke sales records across the subcontinent was followed by four more albums - Boom Boom, Young Tarang, Hotline and Camera Camera - released between 1982 and 1992. They were also pioneering enough to release videos of their tracks — another first."
2. "Nazia Hassan, Biddu - Disco Deewane". Discogs. Retrieved 8 January 2019.
3. Sangita Gopal & Sujata Moorti (2008). Global Bollywood: travels of Hindi song and dance. University of Minnesota Press. pp. 98–9. ISBN 978-0-8166-4579-4. Retrieved 2011-06-07.
4. Asiaweek, Volume 7. Asiaweek. 1981. p. 39. Retrieved 24 June 2011.
5. "Nazia-Biddu Team - 'Disco Deewane': Hit In Hindu". Billboard. 93 (28): 70. 18 July 1981. ISSN 0006-2510. Retrieved 2011-06-24.
6. "India Today". India Today. Thomson Living Media India Limited. 7 (13–16): lvii. 1982. More importantly, Nazia Hasan's Disco Deewane last year broke the popular industry myth that only film sound-tracks sell when sales of the non-film record shot past four lakh to make a double platinum.
7. "Disco Deewane, Nazia Hassan with Biddu and His Orchestra". La Pelanga. 19 September 2010.
8. https://www.telegraphindia.com/7-days/we-d-wonder-how-the-girls-could-go-out-with-five-guys-who-smelt-so-much-of-onions/cid/545076
9. Saregama Ltd, HMV India (2 June 2020). "Music Label". Saregama/ HMV India. Retrieved 2 June 2020.
10. Abjorensen, Norman (2017). Historical Dictionary of Popular Music. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 23. ISBN 9781538102152.
11. "Nazia's 'Disco Deewane' in KJo's Student of the Year". The Express Tribune. 6 September 2012. Retrieved 8 September 2012.