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Asim Azhar has taken on the backbreaking work of two Bollywood giants in his latest song ‘Tu Hai Wohi’. In the part-cover, part-original, part-rap song, Azhar replaces — and sometimes supplements — Kishore Kumar’s vocals.

For the music video, he changes things up even more, replacing Rishi Kapoor with himself, the mountains with the streets of Karachi and the heroine with yearning — yeah, this is clearly the same guy who sang ‘Jo Tu Na Mila’.

The video begins with our hero arriving in the city of lights and frantically looking for something — or someone. He asks the guards at the gate, looks around and then gets into an old-timey taxi to take his search elsewhere.

“Jaane kahan hai, kahan phir rahi. Mein dhoondoon tera jo guzar ho kahin (Where is she, where is she roaming. I look to see if you’re passing through somewhere).” We find out that the singer is indeed searching for a girl and that she promised to meet him, but has now ghosted him.

We get a taste of Kumar’s original vocals before Azhar keeps wondering aloud, “Tu hai kahan? Tu hai kaha-ha-han? (Where are you?)”

We then get even more details about the relationship between him and the mystery girl when he sings about her wanting space but them being made for each other. He asks her to have mercy on him, “You know I can’t wait, peeche na bhaga (don’t make me chase after you).”

After all his adventures across Karachi, we end up at the final scene with Azhar sleeping at home and being shaken awake by a barrage of texts from a “Pari” who is apparently waiting for him at the airport.

Did he sleep in and miss his flight? Did he give her the wrong time? Why couldn’t he have called her to clarify — he even asks if he should in the song. We have more questions than we have answers, but maybe that means something too.