India's top 9 music fests described in one line

Indian music festivals are a breed apart. Besides supporting the lost cause of indie music in a country that is as faithful to Bollywood as Priyanka is to Robert Vadra, they've also managed to mass manufacture hipsters where none existed. Not to mention causing the agony to the latter to decide whether to catch DJ#1 at Festival A or DJ#2 at Festival B. Here's what we make of these major music events

• 1. NH7 Weekender

  Same old artistes play every year to bum-shorts, floral-headband-wearing 'happy' hipsters that get astonishingly younger by the year.

  

  Image Source: Bacardi NH7 Weekender/Facebook

   

  Bacardi NH7 Weekender/Facebook

• 2. Enchanted Valley Carnival

  Where moneyed (and virgin), road-trippin' Surat boys come of age with Nashik girls in pigeonhole tents, even as the artistes on stage dish out music that is produced by their prodigious toddlers. 

  

  Photo: Nirmika Singh

   

  Photo: Nirmika Singh

• 3. Sunburn

  Honeymooning-Couple-From-Patiala’s idea of a 'party-sharty ho jaaye!’

  

  Image Source: Sunburn/ Facebook

   

  Sunburn/ Facebook

• 4. Supersonic

  Plan B for Honeymooning-Couple-From-Patiala when they discover that tickets to Sunburn are sold out.

  

  Image Source: VH1 Supersonice/ Facebook

   

  VH1 Supersonice/ Facebook

• 5. Mahindra Blues Festival

  Silver-haired Bandra septuagenarians shake the leg that’s not in the grave to same-sounding-music along with free-pass-holding, pretentious blues connoisseurs.

  

  Photo: Nirmika Singh

   

  Photo: Nirmika Singh

• 6. Sula Fest

  Mecca for a wannabe crowd whose sole aim in life is to upload having-a-blast-at-the-festival selfies to make their wannabe friends jealous. 

  

  Image Source: Sula Fest Facebook

   

  Sula Fest Facebook

• 7. Ragasthan

  When hundreds of stoned mofos decide to pay thousands of rupees to take part in the sports such as Desert Sun Baking, Dune Hiking and Waterless Showering even as exotic bands play in the background.

  

  Image Source: Ragasthan/ Facebook

   

  Ragasthan/ Facebook

• 8. Jodhpur RIFF

  The only festival in India where you get the opportunity of a lifetime to catch the most unknown  band from Ecuador jamming with a Sub-Saharan musician playing a violin, no, a clarinet, no a flute with strings! 

  

  Image Source: Jodhpur RIFF: Rajasthan International Folk Festival/Facebook

   

  Jodhpur RIFF: Rajasthan International Folk Festival/Facebook

• 9. Ziro Festival

  The one fest in the country where you travel for six days for three days of fun.

  

  Image Source: Ziro Festival Of Music/ Facebook

   

   

   

   

   

  Cover Image Source: Sunburn Facebook

  Article By: NS

  Ziro Festival Of Music/ Facebook