American pop star Ed Sheeran was stopped from posing for a photo in Bengaluru, southeastern India, on Sunday despite being told by police that he lacked the necessary permits.
A local police officer unplugging Sheeran’s camera on Bengaluru’s busy Church Street, a busy shopping and leisure district, has since gone viral.
To avoid overcrowding in the area, officials told the ANI information agency that a request from Mr. Sheeran’s team to things on the road was turned down.
However, Sheeran insisted that, by the way,” we had authority to self.” Thus, us playing in that exact position was planned out earlier. It wasn’t just us arbitrarily turning up. All great though. See you at the present now”.
The event occurred prior to his scheduled Mathematics Tour performance at NICE Grounds in Bengaluru.
Viewers criticised the police action online, with one saying:” We live in an uncleocracy. According to the number of ambiguous regulations that govern the use of open spaces in India, there is nothing that uncles love more than to prevent young people from having fun.
But PC Mohan, a native MP from the ruling BJP party, said “even world stars had follow local rules- no permit, no performance”!
Sheeran is currently on a 15-day tour of India, having previously performed in Pune, Hyderabad, and Chennai, and has also got more music scheduled in Shillong, the north-east of India, and Delhi.
Sheeran surprised supporters at his Bengaluru present by performing two popular music in Telugu while performing two songs with Shilpa Rao on stage in the Telugu speech.
Prior to last year’s concert in Birmingham, he recently partnered with American singer and actor Diljit Dosanjh.
While he is in India, he has also collaborated on a variation of the hit song Form of You with sitarist Megha Rawoot.
Demand for live music music has been increasing in India, with Sheeran’s biggest-ever visit of the country coming nearer on the feet of Dua Lipa’s recent achievement in Mumbai and Coldplay’s multi-city journey.
With growing disposable incomes, India is an emerging player in the” concert economy”, a recent Bank of Baroda report said, with live concerts set to be worth$ 700-900m ( £550-730m ).