Would you risk your life to attend a concert?
Live MintA little more than a year ago, I had written about the debacle that was the Trevor Noah show in Bengaluru—if you can call a show a show if it never happened. At a concert in Chandigarh on 14 December, part of his Dil-Luminati tour, Diljit Dosanjh spoke about poor concert infrastructure in India and said he would not perform live here till the situation improved. It takes on a life of its own and thrives despite poorly run venues, lack of common-sense measures like crowd control, and the absence of political and corporate will to create new infrastructure. I watched an Instagram reel recently by content creator Anushka, who posts on internet and pop culture in India, about several Insta accounts that are selling fake concert videos to people to “flex on their social media feeds." This is how it works—you DM the account, pay them a measly ₹99, and get tagged in “cool insta stories" of people who actually attended the concert, which you can then reshare.
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