Asim Azhar threatens to kick out miscreants making families uncomfortable at his concert

After Atif Aslam, Talha Anjum and Aima Baig had to pause their performance during recent events to call out miscreants, Asim Azhar has had to do the same during his New Year's Eve performance after spotting attendees “drinking openly” in the crowd.

A recently surfaced video of the singer sees him schooling a bunch of men while on stage. Without mentioning what they are doing, Azhar reminds them that families are in attendance, too, and whatever they’re doing is making them uncomfortable.

“I have a request; you are here to celebrate the new year, right? Do it happily but don’t ruin it for anyone else,” he is heard saying. “Don’t spoil anyone else’s night. There are families here and I can see everything. So, if I see anyone misbehaving around families now, they will be kicked out. And the boys here, I’m giving you this responsibility, ensure that the families feel safe. Let’s welcome the new year happily and responsibly.”

The Ghalat Fehmi singer shared the video on his Instagram Stories and reinstated why such behaviour is a problem. He also responded to the people dubbing it a publicity stunt.

“Whoever has come to a concert of mine knows that we tolerate anything but families being disturbed or harassed. With that being said, the guy I was addressing here did not say anything to me but he and his friends were drinking openly and making a family very uncomfortable.”

The Soneya singer acknowledged that it is the responsibility of artists to ensure that the fans who come to their concerts feel safe and comfortable. “For people thinking this was a stunt can go and think whatever but I will keep calling out people who make my audience uncomfortable. Everything is visible from the stage, especially for me,” Azhar concluded.

Earlier, during Aslam’s performance at the much-advertised food festival in Islamabad, the Aadat hitmaker had to stop his concert midway to “save families from being harassed.” Someone also threw an unidentified object at the Young Stunners at a later event, unleashing Anjum’s wrath on stage. This was followed by Baig threatening to leave her concert due to some rowdy, misbehaving attendees in the front row.

Now, we hope people learn how to conduct themselves in public already and more artists call out harassers to demand accountability there and then.

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