Coldplay's Mumbai Concert Canceled? Fans Speculate as BookMyShow CEO Receives Summons

By M&E Outlook Team | Tuesday, 01 October 2024

Amid the CEO of BookMyShow’s parent company, Big Tree Entertainment, Ashish Hemrajani, Skipping the second summons issued by the Mumbai police’s Economics Offences Wing over black market sales of Coldplay Concert tickets, social reports are being followed that the concert may be canceled.

The Mumbai Police’s EOW asked CEO Ashish Hemrajni to appear on Monday, but instead of responding to the summons, he skipped and sent the company's COO, Anil Makhija, reports ANI.

The EOW had issued the first summons on September 27, but Hemrajani did not come. The second summons was issued on Monday,September 30, and he skipped that as well. 

On 27th September, Shiv Sena spokesperson Anad Dubey addressed a letter to Maharashtra Chief Minister  Eknath Shinde to probe the black-marketing of tickets.

How social media platform react 

Fans were disappointed about the Coldplay concert and have questioned if the concert is canceled ?   

Some of them expressed their opinions on X.

“Coldplay might get cancelled(SIC),” wrote one user.  

A second user wrote, “Sources suggest that #coldplayconcert could be cancelled over the alleged #BookMyShow scam! It's such a SHAME that nothing can be transparent in India. There is corruption in every nook and corner ”

"@coldplay should cancel their India concert as fraud and scam star ticketing partners are involved. They should keep their reputation high and must distance itself from criminals @ChrisOfColdplay" appealed the third.

A fourth user asked, “Coldplay india tour cancel kya???? 

"ppl need to understand that cancelling coldplay concert will not lead to anything instead the chances of coldplay or any other foreign artists coming to india ever again would just decrease as i dont think any artists would willingly want to deal with such drama," wrote the fifth user.

Legal case against BookMyShow:

Prior to that, advocate Vyas filed a complaint against BookMYShow over supposed black marketing of the much-talked-about Coldplay concert, scheduled to take place from January 19 to 21,2025.

In his complaint, as reported by Bar and Bench, Vyas alleged that BookMyShow has logged out or blacked out genuine users, enabling third parties to sell the tickets at an exorbitant amount.

He also added that the tickets were originally priced at Rs 2,500 but were sold by influencers and third parties at about Rs 3 lakh.

When did BookMyShow started selling the tickets:

For the Coldplay concert, BookMyShow started selling tickets on September 22, which were sold out in a few minutes. Normally the tickets worth Rs 3,500 were resold at around Rs 3 lakh. Later in the day, BookMyShow warned users of Illegitimate platforms selling Coldplay Concert tickets.

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