KARACHI: World-renowned actor and singer Atif Aslam’s concert has been abruptly postponed due to the negligence of the organizers.
In a Facebook post, it requested the buyers of concert tickets to contact the concert management as soon as possible to refund the tax money.
A post from Atif Aslam’s Facebook page said, “We regret to inform you all that due to disruption by the local authorities on account of the inability of the organizers to obtain the required local permissions, the concert in Karachi would not be taking place today dated: March 13, 2021.
“We would request the fans to contact the concert management at the venue for further updates regarding the tickets bought,” it added.
Earlier, Indian music record label and film production company T-Series had removed Atif Aslam’s song from its Youtube channel two days after releasing the video.
The label released a version of the ‘Kinna Sona’ sung by Atif Aslam but removed the video from their YouTube channel after two days. The original romantic number first featured in the 2019 movie ‘Marjaavaan’ starring Sidharth Malhotra.
There was an immediate backlash in India and #TakeDownAtifAslamSong started trending on Twitter after the music label put up the popular Pakistani singer’s son on Youtube.
The Federation of Western India Cine Employees (FWICE) has demanded to ban Pakistani artists in India amid the deteriorating relations.
The issue also caught the attention of extremist right-wing Maharashtra Navnirman Sena run by Raj Thackeray which demanded to take down the song or else action will be taken.
T-Series was forced to issue an apology after the threat stating, “It has been brought to our notice that the said song has been sung by Atif Aslam and this song was put up on the YouTube channel of T-Series by one of our employees from the promotion team. He was unaware of his action and erred while putting up the song.”
