New Delhi, March 23 -- India's live entertainment economy, which spans a wide canvas-from concerts and music festivals to comedy shows and large-scale brand-led experiential events-is entering a high-growth, high-stakes phase, where scale is rising faster than the systems needed to support it.

Once a nascent sector with occasional international tours, live entertainment is set for remarkable growth here, having emerged as a major cultural and economic force. However, recent reports of singer and rapper Karan Aujla's early 2026 'P-POP Culture India Tour' facing issues-with fans complaining of severe mismanagement, overcrowding, long water queues, high ticket and water prices, security breaches and gate-crashing-make it clear that the ecos...