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Starcom Worldwide wins BIBA’s media duties
MUMBAI: Starcom MediaVest Group’s Starcom Worldwide has won the media duties of BIBA Apparels.
The account will be handled out of the agency’s Delhi office.
BIBA is a brand that caters to all apparel & fashion needs of a woman. BIBA has also joined hands with Futurebrands to realise its ambition of emerging as a big player for ethnic women wear.
BIBA Apparels MD Siddharath Bindra says, “We wanted to partner with an agency that understands innovation and excellence. We are proud to have chosen Starcom as our media agency and look forward to a relationship that benefits brand BIBA.”
Futurebrands head – brand partnership Aanchal Jain adds, “We need partners who excel in creative solutions to achieve breakthroughs for new entrepreneurial brands at excellent ROIs. Starcom’s repeated success with launching new brands and products in India, backed by buying efficiencies of VivaKi Exchange, is very motivating for us.”
Starcom Worldwide executive director – India North Tarun Nigam notes, “BIBA is a brand that has become synonymous with the latest fashion. By choosing us as their media planning company BIBA is ensuring that they are taking their marketing goals to the next level. We are excited about managing the media investments for this brand.”
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Fringe festival finally hits Mumbai stage in March
60 plus shows from 10–15 March 2026 at NCPA plus Bandra venues.
MUMBAI: The Fringe is no longer on the fringe, it’s centre stage in Mumbai, ready to turn the city into a creative playground. After nearly 80 years of shaking up global performance culture from Edinburgh to Prague and Adelaide, the world’s largest open-access arts movement makes its India debut with the Mumbai Fringe Festival from 10 to 15 March 2026.
Kicking off at the iconic Tata Theatre, NCPA, the six-day celebration will spill across Bandra’s buzzing creative circuit, Khar Comedy Club, 3 Art House and indifferent @ Gharonda delivering nearly 60 performances in comedy, theatre, poetry, storytelling and experimental work. This isn’t a sit-down spectacle; it’s a city on the move, with audiences hopping between venues to catch new voices and bold ideas in their rawest form.
The lineup mixes homegrown stars with international heavyweights. Rohan Joshi, Kanan Gill, Varun Grover, Aakash Gupta, Priya Malik, Amandeep Khayal, Urooj Ashfaq and Amit Tandon bring the Indian edge, while global gems include Nigel Miles Thomas’s award-winning solo Sherlock Holmes: The Last Act, The Shakespeare Edit’s striking Macbeth adaptation and David Hoskin’s genre-blending Haunted House (mime, comedy, storytelling mash-up). True to Fringe spirit, the programme thrives on intimacy, invention and fearless creative risks.
Tickets are already live on Bookmyshow, with several shows sold out, signalling strong early buzz. Co-founders Steve Gove (of the 25-year-old Prague Fringe) and Simar Singh (UnErase Poetry) are steering the ship, united by the belief that Mumbai and India is primed for the Fringe model.
Steve Gove said, “Bringing Fringe to Mumbai has been a long-held dream. Cities around the world have embraced this model and watched it reshape their creative landscapes. Mumbai has the energy, the appetite and the talent to make this extraordinary.”
Simar Singh added, “The Fringe model gives artists complete freedom. It creates space for new voices and unexpected ideas to meet audiences directly. Mumbai deserves a platform like this.”
Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society chief executive Tony Lankester chimed in, “Born in Scotland nearly 80 years ago, the Fringe has always stood for joy, openness and giving everyone a platform with minimal gatekeeping… We are delighted to see the Mumbai Fringe carry this same spirit forward.”
In a country bursting with artistic tradition, the Fringe’s arrival feels both overdue and electric, a chance for audiences to experience unfiltered, up-close performance that has quietly shaped modern theatre worldwide. Grab tickets on Bookmyshow before the best spots vanish. Mumbai’s creative margins just got a whole lot louder.
