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Tickets for the India leg of Punjabi singer Diljit Dosanjh’s’ Dil-Luminati Tour were all sold out within minutes on Thursday. Reacting to the high prices of the tickets, Mumbai-based comedian and social media influencer Saumya Sahni shared a video on Friday in which she said Diljit Dosanjh has no right to charge his Indian fans so much, adding many of these fans ‘have no money or are unemployed’. Also read: Diljit Dosanjh sells ‘100,000 tickets in 15 minutes’ during Dil-Luminati India tour pre-sales
‘Koi haq nahi banta’
She said, “I might regret saying this later, but I absolutely have to ki ek Indian artiste ka koi haq nahi banta ki woh 20-25 hazar rupaye ek concert ke charge kare jab woh six cities play kar rahe hai. Woh teen sets play kar sakte hai. Kyunki aapke core audience ke paas paisa nahi hai, employment nahi hai, ek bohut hi limited means of entertainment hai. Bohot hi kam artistes hai joh iss desh ke liye, unki language mein perform kar pate hain. Aur uske baad ek middle-class insaan ka koi access nahi hai us artiste tak (No Indian artiste should charge ₹20-25 thousand for one concert in India when they are playing in so many cities. They can do more sets in each city because your audience has no money or employment and limited means of entertainment. To see someone like him sing in our language means a lot but middle-class people have no access to him).”
Saumya added, “It is very wild to me that an artiste jiska concert bachche bhi dekhne jaa sakte hain, ek middle class family dekhne jaa sakti thi… they make so much money overseas that they could exempt these things for the country. Like bahar artiste ke sau-dedh sau dollar ke ticket hote hain, ki bas utna hi jitna ek set up ke liye chahiye. Lollapalooza ke passes kitne kam ke hain eine bade lineup ke baad bhi (Kids and families could have gone for his concert. He makes so much money with his overseas shows that he could have been more considerate towards his fans in India and charged a little less. In comparison, international artists charge around $100-150 for a ticket. Lollapalooza passes, too, cost less despite the massive lineup of performances).”
She added the text ‘ ₹15K for a concert? In this economy???? In this country?” to her video. Saumya also wrote in her caption, “My 2am thoughts are wildly class conscious.”
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Reactions to the video
Many thought Saumya ‘actually made quite a fair assessment’. An Instagram user commented on Saumya’s video, “He’s gonna realise this when he’s singing and nobody sings back.” Another said, “ ₹500 max. Don’t watch it, it costs more than that. I will watch it on YouTube. A comment also read, “Being a middle-class person never expected Diljeet to be so drowned in fame and money lust.”
Someone also commented, “This is actually quite a fair assessment. Nirvana as a band always ensured their ticket prices remained extremely low so that their ACTUAL fans could attend the concert and not just people who could afford it.” Another said, “Diljeet could easily sell out multiple stadium shows per city, but money > fanbase I guess! Didn’t expect it.”
More about the upcoming concerts
Earlier in September, Diljit Dosanjh finally announced the dates for the Indian leg of his Dil-Luminati Tour. Tickets for the shows went on presale on September 10, and they were made available for general purchase on Thursday afternoon. Unsurprisingly, the tickets were all sold out within minutes, and many on X (formerly Twitter) also reacted to the ‘insane craze’ for the India leg of Diljit’s tour.
Diljit’s tour will kick off at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in Delhi on October 26 this year. Following Delhi, the tour will make its way to Hyderabad, Ahmedabad, Lucknow, Pune, Kolkata, Bengaluru, Indore, Chandigarh, and Guwahati.
