Ashish Hemrajani to be Honored at Impact INTL: Asia 2026 for BookMyShow and Lollapalooza India

ASHISH HEMRAJANI Founder & Chief Executive Officer Big Tree Entertainment / BookMyShow

OPENING UP INDIA: Boots On The Ground For Lollapalooza India, Major Concert Tours.

BookMyShow launched in 2007 to serve India’s gigantic movie audience with online tickets, which its parent company Big Tree Entertainment had been successfully doing offline since 1999, and soon began listing events of all kinds, including concerts. BookMyShow Live, launched in 2017, extended the company’s role from ticketing into full-scale live entertainment production and promotion.

Thanks to the work of the team led by Ashish Hemrajani, India has moved considerably beyond being an occasional stop on the global touring circuit for international artists, who are visiting with increasing frequency as they no longer need to compromise on the scale of production available on site. Coldplay, Ed Sheeran, Linkin Park, are just some recent examples of artists who’ve brought their full kit to India.

Coldplay gave what became the world’s largest ticketed stadium concert in history: more than 111,000 tickets per show across two nights at Ahmedabad’s Narendra Modi Stadium, Jan 25-26, 2025, and 54,000 people per show across three nights at Mumbai’s DY Patil Stadium, Jan. 18-21. The shows, promoted by BookMyShow Live, grossed $15,696,814 and $12,819,848, respectively, according to the box office reports submitted to Pollstar .

“We could have sold 10 or 20 dates more in each location,” Hemrajani told Pollstar when speaking on site at Lollapalooza India in Mumbai at the beginning of this year. He explained that a key strength of the Indian market was its large, young and increasingly global audience, with consumers showing a growing propensity to spend on experiences.

Looking ahead, there is a broader focus on taking live entertainment beyond the largest metros and reaching audiences in the next tier of Indian cities, as Ed Sheeran already did successfully in 2025, when he brought his brought his full “+ – = ÷ x” production to almost 130,000 fans in India, visiting places like Pune, Hyderabad, Chennai, Shillong and Delhi, among others. BookMyShow Live’s upcoming pipeline, including Guns N’ Roses’ two-city tour in Bengaluru and Guwahati, reflects this direction.

_Originally reported by [Pollstar](https://news.pollstar.com/2026/10/02/impact-intl-asia-2026-honoree-ashish-hemrajani/)._