Majboor Lost Frequencies remix: how a Pakistani love song reached a Belgian DJ's dance floor
Sheheryar Rehan and Zoha Waseem's Majboor has an official remix by Lost Frequencies. How it happened, who made the song, and does the remix keep its heart?
“Majboor”, the Sheheryar Rehan and Zoha Waseem song that has been stuck in Pakistani playlists for a year, now has an official remix by Belgian DJ Lost Frequencies, the producer behind the global hit “Are You With Me”. The remix video went up on Lost Frequencies’ own YouTube channel on Thursday, 22 October, and Pakistani papers picked up the story over the weekend.
Who made Majboor?
Sheheryar Rehan wrote and composed the song and sings it with Zoha Waseem, whose ghazal-tinged vocals give it its ache, as The Express Tribune put it. It came out in September 2025 with a video directed by Murtaza Niaz. According to the credits on the official upload, Kabeer Khan produced it, Sherry Khattak played guitars and Julysonic mixed and mastered it. Giraffe Music, the company co-founded by Xulfi, is involved with the project, and Xulfi commented on the remix for both papers.
The numbers explain why a European DJ noticed. Both The Express Tribune and The Nation report more than 250 million streams across platforms, and a place on Spotify’s Global Viral Top 50, with big audiences in Pakistan, India, Bangladesh and the UAE. The original video alone had passed 120 million views on Sheheryar Rehan’s YouTube channel at the time of writing.
How the remix happened
This wasn’t a label deal cooked up in an office. According to both papers, Lost Frequencies, whose real name is Felix De Laet, started dropping his own version of “Majboor” into his live sets, then posted a clip of one performance on Instagram, and that led to the official release. Xulfi recalled him playing the song in India. The remix video’s credits list an Indian crew and thank Casa Bacardi and Paradox India, so it appears to draw on those shows.
“There’s something timeless about Majboor,” Lost Frequencies said, adding that he loved “blending those beautiful melodies with my own sound and bringing it to the dance floor.” Sheheryar Rehan told The Nation: “It’s exciting to see ‘Majboor’ continue to evolve and reach new audiences around the world.”
What changes in the remix?
The original is a slow-burn heartbreak song; the title means “helpless”, and the remix’s own YouTube caption quotes the hook, “kyun kita ae majboor”, roughly “why did you leave me helpless”. The risk with any dance remix is that it flattens that feeling into a generic drop.
Sheheryar Rehan’s view, as reported by The Express Tribune, is that the remix keeps the original’s emotion while giving it a fresh sound. Lost Frequencies is known for melodic, radio-friendly house rather than hard festival drops, which is a natural fit for a song built on longing. Listen to both above and decide: the original for 2am, the remix for the car and the dholki.
Why it matters
Pakistani pop has had global moments before, from “Pasoori” to Hasan Raheem, but they mostly travelled through the diaspora. A remix from a mainstream European dance producer puts “Majboor” in front of club and festival audiences who have never heard of Coke Studio. At the time of writing the remix video had around 20,000 views, so it is early. Watch whether it enters Spotify’s dance playlists in Europe; that would be a first for a song like this.
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This story was researched and drafted with AI assistance, then checked and edited by our editor before publishing.
