Coldplay announces that Tickets are utterly free for the concert in Mumbai

Starting Monday, tickets to the Global Citizen Festival in India can be earned through the new platform by signing up to become a Global Citizen and completing the festival’s action campaigns at GlobalCitizen.in.

British rock band Coldplay is set to perform its first concert in India. Fans will earn these free tickets by taking part in campaigns to support education, equality and sanitation in India.

THE CAUSE: The Global Citizen India Festival has tied up with organisations such as the Global Education & Leadership Foundation, Google, Pratham Foundation, Oxfam India, India Sanitation Coalition, Magic Bus and Water Aid amongst others, to work towards social change.

Now, If you were still concerned about how you’ll manage to the tickets at that high so just stop it right there as they’re free of cost. Chris Martin, Coldplay’s frontman, began his 15-year tenure as the curator for the Global Citizen Festival in February 2015. Ranveer will be toplining the list of Indian performers at the Global Citizen 2016 festival, which also marks Coldplay’s maiden gig in the country, read a statement. So the minute the reports about Coldplay doing a concert in India broke out, people were thrilled and on their toes for more details.

When it was announced that Coldplay would be performing in India, fans went into a major frenzy as to where the band would be performing – Mumbai or Delhi! The Global Citizen Festival is an annual musical event, which in collaboration with the United Nations, aims to eradicate extreme global poverty by the year 2030. The lineup includes Jay Z, AR Rahman, Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy, Aamir Khan, Ranveer Singh, Katrina Kaif, Farhan Akhtar, Kareena Kapoor Khan, Arjun Kapoor, Shraddha Kapoor, Arjit Singh, Dia Mirza and Monali Thakur. Martin also met Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his visit here.

In 2014, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had participated in the Global Citizen Festival in NY.