The highest of November completely is no longer the worst time to host an birth-air concert in Dhaka with the weather slowly starting to shed its torturesome warmth. Thousands gathered internal and birth air the Military Stadium, their excitement undeterred despite hours of ready, kilometres-long queues, and the occasional chaos of stampedes.
All eyes had been on the stage, their anticipation constructing for the night’s crown jewel—Atif Aslam.
Around 8:40 PM, a dramatic two-minute long teaser lit up the massive displays, a signature prelude to Atif Aslam’s concert occasions. Moments later, the massive name himself appeared, igniting the crowd into a burst of collective euphoria.
For twenty unforgettable seconds, the Pakistani singers’ soaring vocals felt at one with the cheer of the crowd but that became that.
After mere seconds on the stage, calamity had struck on ‘Magical Night 2.0′. The facility present failed, overwhelmed by the surge of followers pressing on the wires near the audio engineers’ panel to basically the most provocative of the stage. In a merciless twist, the stage lights dimmed as Atif purchased down from the stage, leaving the target audience vexed because the long-awaited ticket screeched to an abrupt end.
Somewhat anti-climactic, is no longer it?
Nicely, that is the attraction of Dhaka for you, the establish even an worldwide icon is no longer immune to the quirky and unlucky realities of the metropolis.
Take two.
After a fifteen minutes-ish ruin for fixing the flexibility present direct, the countdown timer replayed, along with the teaser and this time round, once Atif stepped up on stage…once more, he didn’t creep away it for the next two and a half of to three hours even for as much as a refreshment ruin.
Nicely choreographed with the song within the aid of the teaser, Atif seamlessly soared by means of the closing two verses of ‘Rabba Sacheya’ from his third solo album from 2008 ‘Meri Kahani’ to kick off his establish of residing in an upbeat model, followed by ‘Bajrangi Bhaijan’s ‘Tu Chahiye’.
It didn’t grab long for the singer to know a more sombre and melodious turn and no earlier than he recited the ever so recognisable intro lines, “Vivid within the setting solar adore a pearl upon the ocean,” each person within the stadium knew what became subsequent.
Ravishing after the guitar solo in ‘Tera Hone Laga Hoon’, Atif let the crowd grab point in singing the relaxation of the song—the necessary instance of the singer exchanging song lyrics with the followers that would proceed all around the relaxation of the night.
Atif’s gleaming showmanship lies in his masterfully curated setlists, showcasing his versatility and an instinctive knack for picking songs that spark the loudest assert-alongs. He knows tips on how to work a crowd, participating with followers easily, signing autographs and merchandise dropped on the concert.
Atif’s setlists are in moderation crafted into certain segments, blending excessive-vitality tracks—in most cases performed at a tempo sooner than their studio versions to ignite the crowd—with softer, stripped down renditions the establish his assert, paired with a single instrument, takes the spotlight. His capacity to read and answer to his followers’ vitality phases elevates his concert occasions to unforgettable experiences.
All over ‘Pehli Nazar Mein’, bright that the crowd knows every line, Atif stood aloof with his arms spread out all around the chorus because the general stadium sang along with the melody of the piano within the aid. At that time he kept transitioning into conceal numbers of change artists, customarily as a tribute, customarily correct to attach the vibe going. Of these, ‘Pehla Nasha’, ‘Aaoge Jab Tum’, ‘Mast Qalandar’, ‘Jab Koi Baat Bigad Jaaye’ clearly resonated with the filled-to-the-rafters target audience.
For approximately twenty irregular minutes, Atif captivated the target audience with an acoustic session, specializing in romantic ballads and some heartbreak songs. This intimate segment featured soulful and softer renditions of ‘Bakhuda Tum Hi there Ho’, ‘Hona Tha Pyar’, and ‘Tere Bin’, allowing the crowd to completely immerse themselves within the purity of his raw vocals accompanied by the soft strums of the acoustic guitar.
There is no longer any Atif Aslam concert with out his iconic rock numbers and he threw within the beefy throttle. For ‘Doorie’ and ‘Woh Lamhein’, he amped up the tempo, igniting the venue because the crowd jumped in unison.
As the night regarded as if it will be near its stay—or so each person belief—he smoothly transitioned into ‘Hum Kis Gali Jaa Rahe Hain.’
All around the song, he climbed onto a finish by pillar supporting substantial audio system, drawing even closer to the pleased target audience. He then moved on to two fan favourites—’Tu Jaane Na’ and ‘Aadat’. All over Aadat, as is custom, Atif let the crowd be a a part of him within the sargams and alaaps, rising a wild, electrifying second the establish both the singer and target audience misplaced themselves within the song.
As the crowd began to thin, with hundreds leaving to beat the Banani visitors, Atif shifted gears for the next forty minutes. Keen away from the excessive-vitality rock anthems, he dived into soulful ghazals, qawwalis and non secular melodies.
These songs weren’t about adrenaline but about immersing the target audience within the quiet, introspective essence of their deeply non secular subject matters.
Nicely, it will be completely detrimental to no longer even mention the change performers on the night even supposing Atif Aslam became the headliner. Sooner than Atif, it became Tahsan Khan who mesmerised the general venue with his somewhat short but superbly crafted establish of residing.
Tahsan kicked off with ‘Ekhono’ from his ‘Gloomy’ days and right this moment purchased the crowd to know segment within the choruses. Adopted by ‘Koto Dur’ and within the center, on the search files from of the crowd he sang the necessary few verses and the chorus of ‘Chuye Dile Mon’.
To remain his establish of residing, he conjured up a mashup of his iconic ‘Prematal’ and ‘Alo’—the stadium particularly feeling at one all around the latter because the home lights dimmed and each person waved the flashlights on their telephones.
Atif wasn’t basically the most provocative Pakistani on the roster on the night of 29 November. A enormous chunk of a youthful pool of target audience did arrive in to survey Abdul Hannan for the necessary time in Bangladesh. Hannan, though his assert cracked by means of and went off pitch a pair of times, did lift a somewhat valid outing.
His Coke Studio Pakistan version of ‘O Yara’ resonated with the target audience while his conceal of Harry Styles ‘As It Became once’ became if truth be told a gratifying shock because of no one saw it coming. The cherry on the cake became doubtlessly when the followers purchased to behold Hannan’s most most current notice, ‘Iraaday’ twice—once with an acoustic guitar earlier than he ended his establish of residing with any other version whereby the general band took segment.
Sooner than Abdul Hannan, our very salvage Bangladeshi band ‘Kaakaal’ opened the lawsuits within the afternoon.
