Shas­tri Boodan

Teenage singing sen­sa­tion Mo­ham­mad Faiz had the crowd at Cen­tre Pointe Mall, Ch­agua­nas, on their feet on Sat­ur­day night as he de­liv­ered a high-en­er­gy per­for­mance filled with pop­u­lar hits and beloved Bol­ly­wood clas­sics.

The 18-year-old tal­ent from Ra­jasthan, In­dia, head­lined the an­nu­al Fa­ther’s Day Con­cert host­ed by RM Con­certs.

The evening’s en­ter­tain­ment be­gan short­ly af­ter 8 pm with spir­it­ed per­for­mances from lo­cal artistes AJ Ar­joon, Amit Sook­nanan and Bri­an Mo­han, each cap­ti­vat­ing the au­di­ence with nos­tal­gic ren­di­tions of Bol­ly­wood oldies.

Sook­nanan moved hearts with the soul­ful Tu­jhse Naraaz Nahin Zinda­gi, a time­less gem from the 1983 film Ma­soom, while Mo­han im­pressed with Raat Kali Ek Khwab Mein from the 1971 clas­sic Bud­dha Mil Gaya. He al­so per­formed the ever­green ro­man­tic duet Jab Koi Baat Bi­gad Jaaye from the 1990 film Ju­rm, orig­i­nal­ly sung by Ku­mar Sanu and Sad­hana Sargam.

Adding to the evening’s charm, Guyanese vo­cal­ist Vishale took to the stage, fol­lowed by the dy­nam­ic Neval Chait­lal. The pair de­light­ed the au­di­ence with a se­ries of duets, set­ting the tone for the main act of the night.

When Faiz fi­nal­ly emerged, dressed in a tra­di­tion­al dhoti paired with a bur­gundy jack­et and a black cap, the crowd erupt­ed in cheers. As his set pro­gressed, he re­moved his cap to un­veil his lat­est corn­row hair­style—greet­ed with even more en­thu­si­asm from the au­di­ence.

Faiz de­liv­ered a string of hits lead­ing in­to the in­ter­mis­sion, show­cas­ing the vo­cal prowess that first cap­tured hearts when he won Sony TV’s Su­per­star Singer Sea­son 2. Since then, his pow­er­ful voice and charis­mat­ic stage pres­ence have earned him in­ter­na­tion­al recog­ni­tion.

In 2024, Faiz re­ceived the pres­ti­gious In­dia’s Youth Icon Award, a tes­ta­ment to his grow­ing in­flu­ence and pop­u­lar­i­ty. His col­lab­o­ra­tions with ac­claimed Bol­ly­wood mu­sic di­rec­tor Himesh Re­sham­miya have pro­duced a num­ber of chart-top­ping tracks, in­clud­ing Mere Liye, Nasha, and Tere Liye.

How­ev­er, it was the emo­tive bal­lad Kab­hi Shaam Dhale that tru­ly launched him in­to star­dom. Most re­cent­ly, Faiz lent his voice to the sound­track of Mr and Mrs Mahi, a film star­ring Ra­jkum­mar Rao and Jan­hvi Kapoor, fur­ther so­lid­i­fy­ing his place in the Bol­ly­wood mu­sic scene.

The Ch­agua­nas au­di­ence was left en­thralled by Faiz’s per­for­mance—a night to re­mem­ber for fans of both new tal­ent and time­less melodies.