Filmi pop
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Filmi pop (Urdu: فلمی موسیقی filmi mosiqi) is a term first coined by Pakistani music journalist, M Ali Tim in 1990 but made famous by the country's most influential pop critic, Nadeem F. Paracha to define the common practice among Pakistani pop artists to fuse traditional subcontinental music with western pop. Filmi is a colloquial term which refers to anything relating to the Pakistan film industry.