Bangladeshi singer Hero Alom's music career ends after police find him out of tune

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• Aug 5, 2022 | Dhupali Das

Alom has come under fire from a number of groups for his renditions of well-known songs by Bangladeshi poet Kazi Nazrul Islam and Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore...

Digital Desk: Bangladeshi singer-actor Hero Alom, who has a massive internet fan base, was detained by police and warned to quit singing his versions of songs. He has about two million Facebook followers and nearly 1.5 million YouTube subscribers.

Notably, the Arabian Song, in which he appears dressed in traditional Arab attire on a sand dune with camels overlaid in the background, has received 17 million views. However, Alom has come under fire from a number of groups for his renditions of well-known songs by Bangladeshi poet Kazi Nazrul Islam and Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore.

Alom claimed in an interview that he was "mentally abused" by police last week and was ordered to quit singing classical music. Alom further claimed that he was instructed to sign an "apology" bond and was told that "he was too ugly to be a singer."

"I was detained at 6 am and was in police custody for eight hours. They questioned why I performed songs by Rabindra and Nazrul," Alom said. 

As per Dhaka's head detective, Harun ur Rashid, Alom has expressed regret for singing popular songs in his films and for illegally donning police uniforms.

"Numerous complaints were made against him to us. He completely altered the traditional style of singing. He promised us he wouldn't do it again," Harun added.

Farook Hossain, Dhaka's deputy police commissioner, denied Alom's claim that he had been asked to change his name.

"He is making these comments merely to go viral on social media. However, his supporters expressed their outrage on social media, with some sections calling it an assault on individual rights," Hossain said.

Meanwhile, Hero Alom stated that he had starred in several films and ran as an independent candidate in Bangladesh's parliamentary election in 2018 and received 638 votes.

"I had a hero complex. So I decided to go by Hero Alom. No matter what, I'm not going to change my name. It appears that you can't even sing freely in Bangladesh right now," he said.