Coldplay will perform in Mumbai and you'll get to watch them for free

Mumbai: Rumours of Coldplay’s Indian tour confirmation got millennials across the country to hyperventilate hysterically. The excitement turned to agitated dismay soon enough when news started trickling that the tickets were priced at a ludicrous minimum of Rs. 25,000. This led to a cluster of memes cropping up and the internet had been broken.

But laying all rumours to absolute rest, The Global Citizen Festival, a non-profit music festival that’s been hosted in the U.S. since 2012, will be bringing Coldplay to Mumbai, in November. And the tickets for the gig, believe it or not, are going to be absolutely free!

Global Citizen Festival’s official statement reads, "We’re so excited to be announcing that on World Toilet Day — November 19th — we’re hosting the first-ever Global Citizen Festival in India, with an incredible lineup of international and Indian headliners including … Coldplay! Just like our annual festival in Central Park, tickets to the Indian Festival will be FREE. Fans will earn them through taking actions in support of education, equality, and sanitation campaigns."

Sounds great, doesn’t it?

But nothing comes for free. What one would need to do is download the Global Citizen app, and use the ‘Take Action,’ feature that urges the user to raise awareness about the issues being tackled by Global Poverty Project in collaboration with the U.N., the Australian government and the British government. The users are granted points post completion of every action, which gets cumulated and after the required points, the user would be allowed to participate in a draw, which grants every winner two tickets. Further clarity on the procedure is awaited.

This, nevertheless, is a welcome news for all those who were planning to sulk at home on gig day, watching Coldplay videos on YouTube.