Hero Alom

Biography

Ashraful Alom (Bengali: আশরাফুল আলম; born 20 January 1985), better known by the stage name Hero Alom (হিরো আলম), is a Bangladeshi media personality, actor, producer, singer, model and politician. He has been working in Bengali short film and music video. He made his debut in 2017 action film Mar Chokka. His YouTube channel has over 1.7 million subscribers. Alom is best known for his absurdist music videos and meme culture. These videos have made him a target of online trolling and the subject of memes in Bangladesh and other South Asian countries.

== Early life and career == Earlier in his life, Alom used to sell Chanachur in a station. Later, Alom had been employed selling CDs and later started a satellite TV connection business. He began making music videos as a hobby. Some of his music videos went viral in 2015, and Alom became a popular target of online trolling and a popular subject of memes in Bangladesh. As of December 2018, Alom has acted in one feature film. In 2019, a Hindi play based on Alom, directed by NSD-graduate Mahesh Ruprao Ghodeswar, was staged in Ahmedabad and Mumbai.

== Personal life == Alom currently lives in Erulia, near Bogra, with his wife, Sadia Akter Sumi, and their children, Alom and Kabir. Alom is involved in charity works and he founded "Hero Alom Foundation" which supports free education for orphans and provides free ambulance, shelter and expenses for homeless people.

== Filmography ==

=== Short films ===

== Political activities ==

=== 2018 === In 2018 Alom decided to contest in 2018 Bangladeshi general election and he bought his candidature form for Bogra-4 constituency buying a Jatiya Party (E) nomination paper ahead of the 11th national elections, but Jatiya Party denied him nomination. Later, he sought his candidacy as an independent candidate. On 10 December High Court instructed Bangladesh Election Commission to accept his candidature form as the latter authority denied his candidature earlier and Alom contested in the election as an independent candidate. His candidacy drew so much media attention that, in 2018, he became the 2nd Bangladeshi only behind Khaleda Zia to be in the top 10 in the category of people in 2018 google search trend in Bangladesh. Eventually he lost in the election getting only 638 votes in his name and BNP candidate Mosharraf Hossain won the seat of that constituency.

=== 2023 ===