Apollo Circus: Another art form lost to time and changing trends

When 26-year-old Bahadur Islam first started working with the Apollo Circus seven years ago, he enthralled a crowd of hundreds with his ‘motorcycle act’ – taking loops and performing stunts on the vehicle inside a mesh sphere ball. Today, his act remains the same, but the audience has thinned to a crowd of less than 50. Islam attributes this decline to two factors – the advent of technology, especially television, and the ban on use of animals in performances at the circus.