For the first time, the organisers of Mood Indigo — the annual festival of IIT-Bombay — will charge a registration fee for Livewire, the rock concert, and a few other events.
For the first time, the organisers of Mood Indigo — the annual festival of IIT-Bombay — will charge a registration fee for Livewire, the rock concert, and a few other events.
Students will have to pay Rs600 and others Rs1,000 to gain entry to the concert. The rock concert has the highest footfall in the four-day festival. Organisers, however, say charging people will help them manage the crowd. A larger turnout is expected this year because of Porcupine Tree, which is performing in the country for the first time.
College festivals, including Mood-I, normally do not have any entry fee for any of the events. A valid college identity card or any identity card is enough for a person to gain entry.
“It is a college festival; so, passes are given to students with college ID cards,” Neharika Juneja, the public relation coordinator for Kaleidoscope — Sophia College’s annual fest — said. “Even for our workshops and rock concerts we do not charge anything. It is first-come-first-serve basis. If someone is found selling passes, we confiscate them and report it to the authorities.”
But Aditya Gandhi, the media co-ordinator for Mood-I, had his reasons behind the move. “Porcupine Tree is a legendary band. They will perform in the country for the first time,” he said. “We expect a huge crowd. If we give out free passes, the crowd will be unmanageable. Also, there will be tight security because the theatre can accommodate at least 10,000 people.”
Ishank Gupta, a core committee member of Mood I, said only 4,000 passes will be sold.
CB Joglekar, an IIT official handling funds for Mood-I, said the college would have to pay entertainment tax if passes were given out only for the rock concert. “So, we have decided to go for a registration fee for some of the events, including the concert,” he said. “The event is completely handled by students; I don’t know how they have marketed it.”
The registration process will help raise funds for some of the expensive international artists and control the crowd at popular events, Joglekar said.
Porcupine Tree will perform at the IIT-Bombay campus on December 21, the first day of the festival.
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