Industry reports indicate around 67% of music streamed online in India, comprise of Bollywood and Regional. The urban millennial is clear about her/his consumption of the genre and the number is only multiplying. At a time when the nation plays host to over 20 music festivals, it is clearly the most apt time for Bollywood to debut its own festival and Mumbai will play host to its very first homegrown Bollywood music festival!
More than 20 musicians of the tallest order from the Bollywood fraternity will be seen jamming together on a single platform over two stages over the two days of the festival. Touted as Asia’s largest multi-genre Bollywood music festival, Radius Developers presents Hungama Bollywood Music Project (BMP) will ensure that all devout music enthusiasts get up close and personal with their favourite Bollywood hit-makers. To be held at Jio Garden, BKC, Mumbai on September 30 and October 1, the festival promises attendees a unique and unparalleled experience in Mumbai.
India’s foremost live event IP company, Event Capital is curating this first-of-its-kind music festival in alliance with India’s top talent management company, TM Talent Management.
The festival will be curated by an eminent advisory panel featuring stalwarts from the music industry such as Rekha Bhardwaj, Hariharan, Sajid-Wajid and Sunny MR who will aim to nurture and inculcate new ways of consuming Bollywood music and promote these experimental forms globally. The festival is expected to attract over 30,000 music lovers over two days. Prior to the festival, Bollywood Music Project will involve a massive consumer engagement program, through nation-wide talent hunts and expert master classes, thus truly enabling the birth of forward thinking concept and not just an annual concert.
In the inaugural edition of the festival, Radius Developers have come on-board as the title sponsors for the festival, while Hungama.com is the title sponsor for the festival. Television channels 9xM and 9xJalwa are the media partners for the festival, while Red FM is the radio partner. BMP is supported by the association of Straydog, Inox (Multiplex Partner), The Souled Store (Official Merchandise Partner), Glamsham.com (Entertainment Portal Partner), MissMalini.com (Digital Portal Partner), RadioandMusic.com (Trade Media Partner), True School of Music (Music School Partner) and Khushi (Ambient Media Partner). The festival is supported by Laqshya Media Group.
With its’ credibility built on the pillars of massive audience patronage and some of the most adept artists of our times, BMP will tour UAE, Africa, UK, Europe and USA over the next 5 years and establish itself as a frontrunner in the Bollywood music festival arena across the globe by launching in high potential markets.
Music lovers can expect to witness a festival unlike any other as BMP gears up to present an all-encompassing experience that will see a cosmic mash of Bollywood music genres such as rap, sufi, unplugged. With state-of-the-art experiential zones and phenomenal production spanning over 5,000 sq. mts. of open space, will make this festival an extravaganza of mammoth proportions and establish its reputation as a must-attend festival for any music enthusiast.
Connecting serious music lovers directly with the artists they love, BMP is no doubt set to become a sanctuary for forward-thinking music fans looking for their daily dose of Bollywood. Maintaining a healthy balance between mainstream and non-commercial music, this will be a festival for the blue blooded Bollywood music fans, for whom cinema is a way of life. It’s time to take a break and leave your world behind.
Tickets can be purchased on www.bookmyshow.com. Starting from Rs. 2,000/-, with variants including Student (Under-21), General and VIP season passes.
ARTISTS
- Amit Trivedi
- Arijit Singh feat Sunidhi Chauhan
- Rekha Bhardwaj
- Badshah
- Papon
- Divya Kumar & Mohammed Irfan
- Shefali Alvares feat Joe Alvares
- Hariharan feat Akhsay
- Sajid –Wajid
- Sachin –Jigar
- Sunny M.R. feat Shalmali Kholgade & Nakash Aziz
- Zubeen Garg feat ZubleeBaruah; and, many more.
Deepak Chaudhary, Founder and Director of Event Capital
“India today celebrates over 20 music festivals in the electronic and Indie music space, and Bollywood music acts are now a regular feature in these festivals. That got us thinking, and we questioned about why does Bollywood not have a festival of its own? When 67% of music streams across streaming platforms is Bollywood, and Ticketmaster data worldwide shows us that Bollywood concerts are top sellers from Wembley to Vancouver, we felt that it was a need gap that has to be filled. When TM Talent Management approached us with the idea, we saw merit through our scale lens and decided this is the next big thing in Music: Bollywood presented in a festival format in an alternative and experimental culture. Moreover, it makes great concept and business sense for us as a part of our core business of live event IPs.”
Tarsame Mittal, Founder, TM Talent Management
“Music is the DNA of TM Talent Management. We breathe music and believe that Bollywood Music is the most popular genre in India. It has equal following around the globe as well. With BMP, we wish to present a unique live musical experience with Bollywood Music. We are fortunate to have a great support in this maiden venture from artists like Rekha Ji, Hariharan,Sajid Wajid and Sunny MR who is our core advisory and are working very closely on the project.”
Ashish Shah, COO, Radius Developers
“At Radius, we believe in curating lifetime experiences for our customers, stakeholders and the community at large, where life in its various aspects and elements can evolve. Music, especially Bollywood, has the power that has brought people together across the world. Our association with Asia’s largest Bollywood music festival – Bollywood Music Project is a committed endeavour towards reinforcing our vision to engage with society outside the infrastructure realm. We are pleased to partner with Event Capital and TM Talent Management in the debut year to provide a single platform to established and new home-grown artists to engage with our stakeholders and community at a first of its kind global music festival.”
Siddhartha Roy, CEO, Hungama.com
“We are extremely excited to partner with the largest multi-genre Bollywood music festival and showcase it live across all our destinations – Hungama Music, Hungama Play, our social platforms and more. We have created unique programming properties around the festival offering our consumers an enhanced, immersive experience. This includes a special playlist by the artists for the artists, an exclusive curtain raiser episode with key artists giving a sneak-peak into the event line-up etc. Set to make the live experience interactive and engaging, a Hungama host will take viewers behind the scenes and give them exclusive developments from the festival. We are also offering our consumers a special opportunity to be a part of the live event at Mumbai. The digital experience of the festival promises to be larger than ever seen before.”
Amit Trivedi
“This festival is special because singers have an advantage to sing for different artists/bands for the same festival since this festival features most Bollywood composers on the same platform. It is the biggest Bollywood festival and the first one and I’m excited to be a part of it.”
SajidWajid
“Being a part of the Bollywood Music Project is quite an experience. The line-up of the festival is magnificent. It’s an interesting concept where in our commercial Bollywood Music is being showcased with an experimental twist. Since our childhood we have been surrounded and exposed to various genres of music which have been a great influence in our work and life. Moreover, we believe that music one of the many things that should be celebrated, because the more it is celebrated the more it brings people together. And there can be no better way but to celebrate it with colleagues from the industry and above all our fans and listeners who have loved us for our work and our music. And, being on the advisory panel has been a lot of fun.”
Badshah
“I am honoured to be a part of this grand Bollywood celebration called the Bollywood Music Project. I am preparing an exclusive live set specially for the show and can’t wait to share stage with the other industry’s shining stars. The Bollywood Music project is definitely going to be a feast for Indian ears with so many amazing artists coming together on the same platform. I am absolutely looking forward to share stage with these geniuses and performing live for the Mumbai audience and celebrate the wonder of Bollywood Music.”
Divya Kumar
“It’s going to be one of a kind music festival. Being a part of Bollywood, this is the best way to celebrate Bollywood. Whatever it has given to us is a dream, and this is the best way to communicate to our fan, a dream vision created by TM Talent Management and Event capital I believe it’s going to be a treat to all music lovers, and feel that our Bollywood family don’t meet too often until it is about work.So, this for me is going to be a Bollywood music get together and party on stage with music lovers. I’m really looking forward to this.”
ShefaliAlvares
“Bollywood Music Project is a fantastic initiative I am super proud to be a part of it. Major kudos to Tarsame Mittal Talent Management and Event Capital for dreaming big and making it happen. I look forward to watching all these amazing musicians on one mega stage and I’m excited to be performing with my father Mr Joe Alvares and bringing to light some of my jazz roots to the Bollywood main stage.”
Mohammed Irfan
“I’m very happy to be a part of BMP. It’s a great initiative by Event Capital and TM Talent Management and I’m sure it’s going to be a huge success. We have some of the biggest names from the music industry coming together to give their amazing performances. The audience is going to have a blast. I’m looking forward to performing at the BMP this year. The line-up is fantastic and I’m so happy to be teaming up with my friend Divya Kumar. He’s an amazing singer and a humble guy too. I hope people enjoy our chemistry on stage.”
SPECIAL ATTRIBUTES
Advisory Panel
In a one-of-its-kind initiative by BMP, an advisory panel comprising of Rekha Bhardwaj, Hariharan, Sunny MR and Sajid-Wajid have been roped in as a panel of curators. Never before has a music festival had a concept of the advisory panel. This panel will shoulder the responsibility of bringing out two alternative, experimental and new age musicians through a nationwide talent hunt. Since the inception of IIFA, BMP will be the only movement in Music / Performance based IP initiatives with such a tall order of artistes as advisors.
BMP VoiceHunt – Hunting for the opening voice of Arijit Singh & Rekha Bhardwaj
The BMP Voice Hunt is a platform for aspiring singers to showcase their talent to the best in the industry, and get recognized at a national level. Starting from the second week of August, the talent hunt for singers will scout for the opening voice for the headlining acts. Two winners (mainline and alternative) will get to perform at the BMP.
Aspirants for the talent hunt can submit their video entries online through the contest microsite. The entries will be evaluated by the advisory panel, and 20 shortlisted aspirants each will be called for a live audition in 4 cities: Mumbai, Delhi, Pune and Bangalore. The winner will be selected by the panel based only on the online entries.
BMP Master Class
BMP Master Class will provide fans with an exclusive peek into the lives and thoughts of some of the prominent names in the Bollywood music industry. The Master Class series, featuring the artists, will be released as video and/or audio podcasts periodically as a run-up to the festival, and will feature these artistes sharing tips about music composition and several answers to questions that fans have been asking.
BMP Pre-Bash
BMP pre-bashes will offer fans an unforgettable experience through a unique pre-bash with their favourite Bollywood artist in their experimental avatar as a build-up to the main festival.
Experimental Artistes
It is key for us to pre-warn our audiences about the variety of genres chosen. Afternoon will see a high energy hour on the alternative stage where electronic notes will be heard, merged with live percussions. The sundown vibe at the main stage will force you to sit on the green grass and sip through while slow bobbing your head to the fusion.
Festival Experience
What you will see is a retro psychedelic experience of Bollywood. The art form established is through a myriad of colours amalgamating to capture your dance senses. Throughout the festival you will see unique vantage points, experiential, interactive installations, street flea pop-ups and a multi-genre happy vibe that will engage the audiences.
