Ahmed Godil, who has made headlines for his performance as the host of the opening ceremony of the Pakistan Super League (PSL) 2020 said on Friday that it was a “very poorly managed show”.
Godil appeared on Geo TV’s ‘Jashn-e-Cricket’ show hosted by Shahzad Iqbal to talk about the backlash his performance received on social media. Godil said that he was not the host of the opening ceremony.
“I was told to come to the stage for the pre show as they [organisers] said the audience were bored since 4: 30pm,” he said, clarifying that he was not the host of the event.
Terming it a huge broadcasting blunder, he said that the mic did not properly catch the sound of the audience’s roar. “What sort of a mic was this?” he wondered, saying that the audience’s rousing response was not captured properly.
“Was it a bad ceremony? I didn’t understand the [concept] of the opening ceremony. I didn’t see any people, the stage was too far away. Was it a bad ceremony,” asked Shoaib Akhtar, who was also a guest on the show.
“It was a very, very poorly managed show,” responded Godil.
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Responding to criticism that he had not been selected to be the “ground host” on merit, Godil said he was in the industry since the past two years and had hosted concerts in the US and other countries by acclaimed musicians such as Atif Aslam and Sonu Nigam.
He had said that Fakhr-e-Alam was the real host of the PSL 2020 opening ceremony. Godil said that he didn’t even know he would go live as it was just his job to energise the crowd from 6:45pm to 7:00pm before the performances began.
