MUMBAI: The first-ever Mumbai Festival, scheduled to be held from January 20-28 next year, will honour people who keep India’s financial capital moving.
The nine-day Mumbai Festival 2024 aims to showcase the spirit of unity with the theme ‘Everyone’s Invited’. The theme emphasises the inclusivity of Mumbai as the melting pot that welcomes and embraces everyone in the city of dreams, ‘Sapno Ka Gateway.’ The festival will feature cultural events, musical events, food festivals, and more.
One of the highlights of the festival will be ‘Mumbai Walks’, wherein the icons of the city would come together to felicitate and pay a tribute to the heroes of Mumbai who keep the ‘maximum-city’ moving, comprising dabbawallas, police havaldars, BEST bus drivers and conductors, sweepers, cleaning crews and others.
The details of the festival were announced by Tourism Minister Girish Mahajan along with the Chairman of Mahindra & Mahindra, Anand Mahindra, who is chairing the Mumbai Festival Advisory Committee, and Dr B N Patil, Director, Directorate of Tourism.
The festival aims to boost tourism, cultivate development and inclusiveness, and discover new opportunities and avenues in the industry. It is slated as a transformative experience, poised to be one of the biggest annual festivals that India has ever witnessed.
The Department of Tourism has entrusted Wizcraft Entertainment Agency with the task of conceptualising and managing the Mumbai Festival which will see a coming together of art, culture, sports, fashion and food.
Events will be held at various locations across Mumbai. These would include cultural events, music festival, Maha Mumbai Expo, cinema and beach fests, movie competition, cricket clinic, and start-up festival, among others.
