Announcing his retirement, celebrated Bangladeshi singer Ferdous Wahid, who has delivered some of the most remarkable and evergreen songs in local music industry, is set to bid farewell to the music industry at the end of this year.

Now, after working on his latest project comprising of 22 original songs, tuned by Ferdous Wahid and music arrangement done by Mosharraf Azmi, the veteran pop singer intends to never appear before audience with new songs.

Sources told DhakaLive that among these 22 songs, a number of five songs namely ‘Tumi Amar Jibon,’ ‘Papi,’ ‘Ogo Amar Moyna,’ ‘Cholar Pothey’ and ‘Moira Geley’ are currently under production to be made into music videos.

He also composed the lyrics of these five songs as well.  

Filming of the music videos is currently underway at different locations of Srinagar in Bikrampur district. The shooting is likely to be wrapped up under the direction of Ferdous Wahid on December 7.

With lyrics of another 17 songs written by Mosharraf Azmi, the production of the music videos of the songs is also in the pipeline.

Will we never see you in new songs and stage shows after this year?

Ferdous Wahid: The year 2019 is going to be my last year in stage shows and also in original songs. At a certain age, singers actually cannot render songs as they used to do in their early age. Thus, before the audience feels the need of rejecting me as an artiste later, I would like to leave this arena with dignity. However, if after my retirement, any organisation wants to me appear in stage shows, I will take the fee Tk 5 lakh per show and deposit it into Wahid Foundation in order to use the entire amount to help people in need.

When your original songs will be released on YouTube?

Ferdous Wahid: At the end of this year, I intend to release the 22 songs and its music videos on Wahid Movies’ official YouTube Channel.

How are your directed-films ‘Durdhorsho Abhijan’, ‘Nilam’ and ‘Ichamoti’ production taking place?

Ferdous Wahid:  Half of the productions of the films have been already completed. We are working efficiently to finish the films’ shooting in due time.