After 14 prolonged years, Pakistani tune band Jal took Dhaka’s stage by storm. Fans were swarming the venue at Jamuna Future Park because the transient roof above the North Court grow to be eradicated, permitting folks to peek over the railings across all eight floors.
Fans were stuffed in each and each corner, even taking up the elevators. They were all mesmerised by Goher Mumtaz’s heartfelt performance of the timeless basic ‘Aadat.’
Your entire mall overflowed with nostalgia, pleasure, and teary eyes because the tune reached into the depths of all people’s hearts. Perfect because the crowd misplaced themselves in nostalgia, the authorities stepped onto the stage and tugged on Goher’s guitar, signalling him to stop. And he promptly left the stage without saying a notice of farewell to his adoring fans.
The contemporary ended earlier than it truly began. After waiting 14 years for this 2nd, fans were left with a half-accomplished performance.
A chaotic crowd, many without tickets, compelled their capability in, and the night time grow to be plagued by never-ending technical system defects, leaving what should hang been a triumphant return feeling disappointingly underwhelming.
I couldn’t succor but laugh at one level at some level of the chaos, because the organisers were nowhere to be realized, and the ticketing team stood frozen, looking out at the crowd force their capability in as the entirety spiralled uncontrolled.
The irony grow to be striking, namely after an organiser had confidently assured me the night time earlier than over the phone, “The safety of the artist and target audience is our number one precedence.”
The band Vikings came and went, but it grow to be laborious to expertise any of their classics, esteem
‘Bhalobashi Jaare,’ as a result of the abysmal sound map.
In the beginning, the concert grow to be alleged to rob bother in Dhaka Enviornment, an originate self-discipline, but changing the venue to a procuring heart grow to be a guarantee for technical points. The organisers were to blame for managing this better, but they fell instant.
All the arrangement by the match, the organisers reminded the crowd that the concert grow to be removed from what they had planned. While they somehow got the job performed, the ensuing match raised the ask: grow to be this all worth it, and to what extent might presumably well the catastrophe hang been avoided?
As guests made their capability into the venue after getting pushed round in the entryway, they were met with a hall filled with folks, wall to wall.
There grow to be absolutely no capability to peek the stage. Moderately, folks were sadly huddled round a lone camouflage that displayed the performance. It hits you whenever you are reminded that pretty a range of those attendants had paid Tk3,000 appropriate to gape a camouflage at the venue.
To add to the confusion, the procuring heart remained originate to most folks, so there were handiest murky curtains setting apart the present and its target audience from them. And that grow to be generally a barricade.
Moreover, these curtains were taken down mid-existing when the unruly crowd– that grow to be powerful too abundant for the venue– grew to grow to be no longer seemingly to manipulate.
In the ruin, the military needed to intervene and the never-ending requests for the crowd to chill down were passed over. It could most likely presumably well need been more efficient to play Kendrick Lamar’s notorious verse from ‘Humble’ to fetch all people’s consideration!
As magical as each and each chord of ‘Aadat’ grow to be, it unruffled did not truly feel esteem enough. The team mostly sang along to ‘Sajni’ and ‘Ik Din Ayega,’ but we craved more of Goher’s presence.
Nonetheless, when the present kicked off with all people singing in unison to ‘Woh Lamhey,’ it felt esteem a transient 2nd of cohesion, a reward for enduring the chaos and challenges all people confronted earlier.
While Goher grow to be undeniably charming and showcased his brilliance as a guitarist, apart from ‘Aadat,’ his performance did not pretty tug at the nostalgic heartstrings as powerful as I hoped it might presumably well.
As if in return for the struggles for the total night time, the headliners played an unreleased tune for the crowd, and now we eagerly await its legitimate delivery.
Positively, the spotlight of the total existing grow to be Aurthohin, handing over a truly memorable performance, albeit gracing the stage an hour slack.
Bassbaba Sumon had the crowd fully ‘Chaitei Paro,’ and each and each tune that adopted grow to be nothing instant of perfection.
Nonetheless even that reminiscence grow to be marred by the lapses of sound interference, which reached across the floors of the mall.
We grooved and sang along as he amazed us with mighty renditions of ‘Aushomapto’ ‘Epitaph,’ ‘Bijoyer Gaan,’ ‘Nikkristo,’ and ‘Tumi Bhorecho Ei Mon,’ earlier than closing their assign of dwelling with ‘Chaitei Paro’ once more.
It grow to be an namely poignant 2nd, as this marked Mahaan Fahim’s final performance with Aurthohin as a result of properly being concerns.
The announcement came rapidly after the concert, with a post from Bassbaba Sumon’s Facebook page wishing Mahaan a quick recovery.
From delivery as much as enact, the night time grow to be fraught with difficulties, but it grow to be exceptional to peek the true fans retain onto hope until the very live. They came for Jal and stayed, but their loyalty wasn’t rewarded as anticipated.
What grow to be supposed to be a extremely anticipated night time with tune legends grew to grow to be out to be handiest half-memorable. While the crowd grow to be eventually brought critically below administration, mid-performance disruptions and constant points dampened the expertise.
An night time with legends grow to be never supposed to be spent in a mall. By the live, many walked away upset, feeling it wasn’t well worth the money, their faces reflecting the frustration of unfulfilled expectations.
