Music and Youth
Set the stage on fire with Diwali Special on MTV Beats
MUMBAI: It’s time for happiness and celebrations galore with the much-awaited festival of the country! The festival of lights, Diwali is just around the corner and MTV Beats has a sizzling surprise for you. Taking the excitement of the Diwali celebrations a notch higher, the channel brings the Diwali Dhamaka with some of the favourite songs featured back to back with ‘Mera Wala Song’, India’s first live request show. With peppy lineup of blockbuster songs and soul trapping music starting 4th November, 9AM onwards, MTV Beats will lock in your requests Live during the show and play the songs you love to rock the floor on. With break free hours that will lift your spirits like never before, the ‘Musical Ladi’ will keep you off your seats with continuous dancing.
To take the madness a notch higher, MTV Beats is coming up with a massive watch and win contest from 3rd November to 10th November, where gratifications will be like Activa, Ipad, Dell Laptop and much more. All you need to do is, watch MTV Beats between 9 am to 11 am and send the flashing song codes to 8828807807 along with your name and city name. The lines for the contest will open from 8:45 to 11 am every day and the winners will get an auto response of Congratulation SMS while the song will be played in sometime.
What’s Diwali without Pathakas and Bollywood without our Pathakas? No fun, right? As part of the Diwali specials, MTV Beats brings a special lineup of break-free Bollywood songs from our very own dancing diva and Pathakas in town like Alia Bhatt and Deepika Padukone and many more. How can we miss out on our drool worthy Bollywood Crackers like Ranveer Singh and Ranbir Kapoor? Known to set the stage on fire with their energetic and captivating songs, these men surely know how to keep you on your feet all day long!
Bring out all the shades of filmy and dramatic in you with songs that you can choose from, across an array of genres and films. Tune-in to MTV Beats, 4th November onwards for a hearty and a dancing Diwali!
MUMBAI: Mumbai is about to witness something it has never seen before. The Global Youth Festival arrives on 6-7 December at Jio World Garden with 15,000 attendees and 60-plus experiences sprawled across six sprawling arenas. On its sixth edition, this is no ordinary jamboree—it is a carefully orchestrated collision of wellness, adventure, arts, music, yoga and social change.
Chief Minister of Maharashtra Devendra Fadnavis will throw open the proceedings with a landmark ceremony, signalling the state’s backing for a movement that has already mobilised youth across 20-plus countries and 170-plus cities. The sheer scale is staggering: 500-plus volunteers powering the machine, 600,000-plus volunteer hours logged across previous editions, and millions of lives touched annually.
The speaker roster is formidable. Diipa Büller-Khosla and Dipali Goenka, chief executive of Welspun India, will share the stage with Malaika Arora in conversations spanning leadership, creativity and culture. Union Minister for Sports and Youth Affairs Mansukhbhai Mandaviya will also attend, reinforcing GYF’s reach into the corridors of power.
But this is not mere talk. The Solaris Mainstage promises concerts from renowned Indian artists. Innerverse delivers a 360-degree LED spectacle of art, technology and sound. The Love and Care Arena houses hands-on projects spanning women’s empowerment, child education, rural upliftment and animal welfare. India’s largest outdoor sound-healing experience awaits. An inflatable obstacle course, neon drifter karts and open-sky bouldering cater to thrill-seekers.
Some have branded GYF the “Coachella of Consciousness.” Others call it “India’s Largest Sober Festival.” Spiritual visionary Pujya Gurudevshri Rakeshji, who inspired the festival, will deliver the Wisdom Masterclass. Every rupee goes to charity.
After Mumbai comes Kolkata on 14 December. New York looms next year. For one weekend in December, Mumbai becomes the epicentre of youth-driven change—and nothing will be quite the same after.
Tickets available on BookMyShow. Visit youthfestival.srmd.org or follow @globalyouthfestival on Instagram.
