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00:01:04Airlines. India. 1.4 billion people
00:01:08people and counting. Its growth seems
00:01:13seems unstoppable. I can't say no
00:01:15no to you. I'm a businessman, so so they may say, what the hell are
00:01:19are you wearing? So I said, but am
00:01:21am I in the boardroom? No. Oh, wow.
00:01:24wow. Are you kidding me? It's beating
00:01:27beating heart. Mumbai. Come on. We've
00:01:30We've all been watching him since since we were like. Don't tell him
00:01:33him I said that. He's still really
00:01:35really hot. The boomtown that was
00:01:37was once Bombay. If you're basic,
00:01:39basic, you're not invited. A city
00:01:43city electric with opportunity. I
00:01:44I would like to be a supermodel.
00:01:48supermodel. Where your billionaire billionaire neighbour might live live in his own skyscraper. Have
00:01:52Have you ever spoken to the family
00:01:54family next door? No. You know he
00:01:56he has waved at me once. This is
00:02:01is the inside track. Let's see. Is
00:02:03Is it actually the city of Dreams? Dreams? From the way people flock
00:02:07flock here, it definitely must be. be. It's a crazy city, but it makes
00:02:10makes you believe. Mumbai is all
00:02:12all about. You might be living in in the trenches, but you're still
00:02:16still looking at the stars. From From the people who are riding the
00:02:19the wave. I'm the one to be cancelled
00:02:21cancelled first. Please do something something about the AC in the lounge.
00:02:25lounge. We are all dying. MUSIC
00:02:39Superhits 93.5 FM. I'm Melissa.
00:02:41I'm going to say o MGTHIK which means.
00:02:46means. Oh, my God, the heat is killing
00:02:48killing me. March in Mumbai. The
00:02:53The Indian summer is just around around the corner and the city is
00:02:56is in its final flurry of activity
00:02:59activity before the stifling heat
00:03:01heat takes over. It's the last chance
00:03:03chance for young go getters to make
00:03:07make serious cash. Do it so that
00:03:12that there are more people attending attending to everybody who's coming
00:03:15coming and not restricted to one one che che car, though, because.
00:03:19because. This is 29-year-old Sudipan Sudipan Das and his business partner
00:03:23partner Hitesh Keswani. Very much.
00:03:27much. Lots of hard work and sweat
00:03:29sweat has gone into this blood and
00:03:32and sweat theme. All of this come
00:03:34come to life together is amazing.
00:03:38amazing. The son of an investment investment banker and a teacher,
00:03:42teacher, Sudipan is Mumbai born and
00:03:44and bred. He's travelled the world
00:03:46world but has settled in his hometown
00:03:48hometown to start his latest business
00:03:50business venture. A brand new music
00:03:54music festival. He's calling Dunk
00:03:58Dunk Fest. The idea is to create
00:04:06create India's home grown festival festival music festival that travels
00:04:10travels not only throughout the country
00:04:12country but also throughout the world.
00:04:16world. Hopefully. We have nine artists
00:04:20artists playing all day music, food,
00:04:24food, partying non-stop, everything. everything. But the only thing different
00:04:28different here is that we also have
00:04:30have Holi combined into all of this.
00:04:34this. For centuries, Holi has been been a countrywide street party to
00:04:38to which the whole of India is invited
00:04:41invited in which people plaster the
00:04:43the streets and each other in a rainbow
00:04:45rainbow of dye. Sudipan Das idea
00:04:50idea is to create a holy music festival
00:04:53festival and to charge customers customers for what has traditionally
00:04:56traditionally been a free event.
00:04:58event. How much is a general admission
00:05:00admission ticket? 1500 for general
00:05:02general admission ticket 1,500. 2500
00:05:072500 for a slightly higher category
00:05:09category and about 50,000 for the
00:05:11the VIP. 1,500 for the cheapest ticket
00:05:16ticket is £15. The most expensive
00:05:20expensive ticket are £500 and grant
00:05:22grant access to a VIP area yet to
00:05:25to be constructed. This is an exclusive
00:05:28exclusive celebrity lounge. So these
00:05:31these sheets they would turn into
00:05:34into colourful acrylics like that. that. I took three days to convince
00:05:37convince him to spend money on this. this. This is very expensive. How
00:05:40How much? How do I convert. Them
00:05:43Them in rupees and rupees? We're We're spending about 15 lakhs. One
00:05:47One five. Only £1,000. This? Yeah
00:05:51Yeah yeah. Where's that money coming
00:05:53coming from? We're investing all
00:05:56all of it. It's all you. Yes, me
00:05:59me and my partner Hitesh. Tomorrow.
00:06:01Tomorrow. It's hoped that 6500 ticket
00:06:04ticket holders will descend here, here, all expecting to find what
00:06:08what has been billed as Mumbai's
00:06:10Mumbai's hottest Holi party. How How long until this place has to
00:06:14to be ready? By morning, six. Tomorrow Tomorrow by morning. Six. So you've
00:06:18you've got less than 24 hours. Yeah.
00:06:21Yeah. Yes. So what else is still
00:06:23still left to do? There are box offices. offices. That's our main entry where
00:06:27where people come in. And this is is the main stage. And this is where
00:06:31where public is going to be. All
00:06:34All the celebs, they come in through through the red carpet here, which
00:06:37which you guys can check. This will
00:06:43will convert into a beautiful red
00:06:44red carpet when you are here tomorrow.
00:06:48tomorrow. Are there any concerns concerns from your perspective that
00:06:51that it's not going to be ready? ready? No, not at all. That's how
00:06:54how this country works. You get everything
00:06:56everything last moment Jagtar. It's
00:06:58It's a jugger country. What is Jagtar
00:07:00Jagtar mean? Jigar means you don't
00:07:03don't go the traditional way to fix
00:07:05fix something. You just figure out
00:07:08out a smart way, a. Smart solution
00:07:10solution to every problem. Jugaad
00:07:17Jugaad is a Hindi word that sums
00:07:19sums up how in India there's a way
00:07:22way around any problem. Got a load load of luggage, but your car's not
00:07:25not big enough to carry it all. Jugaad
00:07:29Jugaad the hosepipe connect is broken broken and you need to water the
00:07:32the garden. Jugaad running late for
00:07:35for work but there's no room on the
00:07:37the bus. Jugaad in India cannot is
00:07:41is not a word in their vocabulary,
00:07:44vocabulary, but Mumbai's young entrepreneurs. entrepreneurs. A dose of jugaad can
00:07:47can turn a pipe dream into a reality.
00:07:54reality. Are you guys the kind of
00:07:55of people who rely on Jugaad? Oh,
00:07:58Oh, he is definitely. I'm an entertainment
00:08:02entertainment person. I don't understand understand how technicalities of
00:08:06of alcohol and things like that work.
00:08:09work. Food, alcohol set-ups, licences
00:08:11licences all of it is a bit tricky.
00:08:15tricky. I can just dream of a thought.
00:08:18thought. If it doesn't work, you you might have to find me a job in
00:08:22in UK. MUSIC
00:08:38Yes, I do see a two types of
00:08:41youth. Ones with fire that you have
00:08:47have in your belly to make something
00:08:49something of your life. And that that comes from watching your family
00:08:53family go through hard work or hardships. hardships. And then there's the other
00:08:56other kind who just have a lot that that has been handed over to them
00:09:00them on a plate. And the attitude
00:09:01attitude is a little bit complacent.
00:09:06complacent. When we were growing growing up, we had two career options. options. You could either be a doctor
00:09:10doctor or an engineer. But Young
00:09:15Young India is very clear about what
00:09:17what it wants and that is exactly
00:09:21exactly opposite of what its previous previous generation wanted. So many
00:09:25many options, so many choices. You
00:09:31You didn't have those kind of choices
00:09:34choices or professions. There's much much more money. I mean, the young
00:09:36young are making much more money.
00:09:41money. They all have huge aspirations, aspirations, huge dreams. That's
00:09:45That's how it should be. When I was
00:09:47was growing up, you know, 18 to 20
00:09:5020 years ago, I think youngsters
00:09:53youngsters were looked at as aspiring
00:09:57aspiring youngsters. But today youngsters
00:10:01youngsters are looked at as game
00:10:04game changers. They're looked at
00:10:06at as the future of this nation.
00:10:09nation. Youth has become into an
00:10:12an aspiring raw material advantage
00:10:15advantage of India. Where's my body?
00:10:22body? Shimona. How long until you
00:10:25you got to go on? 15 minutes. I have
00:10:28have to get my body make-up done.
00:10:30done. Get changed. Get accessorised
00:10:32accessorised tile, click backstage
00:10:35backstage pictures. And then stand
00:10:37stand in line up. It's insanity.
00:10:43insanity. 23-year-old Shimona Nath Nath has been tipped as this year's
00:10:46year's one to watch at Mumbai Fashion
00:10:49Fashion Week, which kicks off today.
00:10:53today. This is my second season as
00:10:56as a official model. It's difficult difficult to get into Fashion Week.
00:11:01Week. Only the top of the top make
00:11:02make it. Move move move move move
00:11:05move move move. There are millions millions of models here. They want
00:11:08want to go out there and make a name name for themselves. They want to
00:11:12to earn the money that they can and
00:11:14and build things for themselves.
00:11:16themselves. So my shoulders also. also. But I have to go out there
00:11:20there and I have to make it and I I have to work and I have to take
00:11:23take care of things, do my back also also please. Modelling is something
00:11:26something I started because of looking looking at my mum. She was a model
00:11:30model and seeing her life. I was was like, that's something I want
00:11:33want to do. Back when Shimona mum
00:11:35mum was walking the runway, Indian
00:11:38Indian fashion was a niche industry, industry, employing just a handful
00:11:41handful of people. Today, Fashion
00:11:44Fashion Week boasts over 100 shows
00:11:48shows over five days, employing hundreds hundreds of models. Baba, can you
00:11:51you give me lips? It is hard work
00:11:54work for sure. And watching the hustle
00:11:56hustle that it is, it gets really
00:11:59really hectic. It's OK, it's OK.
00:12:03OK. OK. Now I've learned to be a a big girl and handle myself for
00:12:07for sure. Don't go outside. It's
00:12:09It's a bleeding. OK. I don't want
00:12:12want to look like I'm bleeding. I.
00:12:20I. Shimona has recently landed the the gig as the new face of India's
00:12:24India's oldest make-up brand, Lakme.
00:12:28Lakme. Her campaign will be shown shown on gigantic screens before
00:12:31before the start of every runway
00:12:33runway show this week. The ad is
00:12:41is playing. As the face of Lakme.
00:12:43Lakme. She was paid 30 times more more than the average model earns
00:12:47earns across the whole of Fashion
00:12:49Fashion Week. The boss one More time
00:12:53time and money goes in the way I
00:12:55I look. You look like a million bucks.
00:12:58bucks. It's all right. 30 shades
00:13:03shades of red lipsticks. Aleema Khan
00:13:10Khan and Michelle Fleury for and
00:13:12and Lord Shipley. This is her first
00:13:16first big campaign.
00:13:34It's a little bit of a narcissistic job being a model. Everyone
00:13:38Everyone wants to look their best. best. They only care about me, my
00:13:41my love, and how I'm gonna look. look. There. Especially this city,
00:13:44city, Bombay. It's so fast paced
00:13:46paced over here. It's chaotic. People
00:13:55People are running here 24 by seven. seven. They're working in the mornings,
00:13:58mornings, spending the nights trying trying to think. What else can I
00:14:01I do? What next step for my job?
00:14:04job? Because you can become a millionaire
00:14:06millionaire overnight. It's crazy.
00:14:09crazy. But also, if you're not in
00:14:12in your best shape and you're not not achieving here, it will show
00:14:14show you up and spit you back out.
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00:15:43Turkish Airlines. Fashion week takes
00:15:50takes place in Bandra, a hub for
00:15:53for Mumbai's young professionals.
00:15:59professionals. It's a neighbourhood
00:16:00neighbourhood with a 24 hour buzz. buzz. Every week sees the opening
00:16:04opening of a new bar, boutique or
00:16:07or coffee shop. The coffee. Shop
00:16:09Shop has become. A very, very big
00:16:12big trend in Bandra 5200 cafes only
00:16:14only in Bandra West. And today there'll
00:16:18there'll be 101. This morning. This
00:16:23This former bakery will reopen as
00:16:26as Mumbai's latest brunch spot. I've
00:16:29I've been told I have to make my
00:16:32my own coffee. I think my team bullies
00:16:34bullies me a lot. Yash Bhanage is
00:16:38is the brains behind Veronica's.
00:16:41Veronica's. This is his fifth venture venture in Mumbai, where a young
00:16:44young generation with disposable
00:16:45disposable income are driving a boom
00:16:48boom in new restaurants. In the last last five years, most people from
00:16:52from Bombay have better disposable disposable incomes. They know what what good coffee is or they know
00:16:55know what good food is. But I feel
00:16:59feel people's image of Bombay still
00:17:00still is like what was shown in Slumdog Slumdog Millionaire, the city where
00:17:04where people are going to be honking honking all the time and there are
00:17:07are going to be cows on the street street and elephants crossing. But
00:17:11But there's so much more to the city. city. People want to go out. They
00:17:14They want to go for that luxurious luxurious spend. They want to have have that extra glass of wine or
00:17:18or a glass of cocktail with it. But But today I'm a bit worried that
00:17:21that we don't have people lining lining up. I was hoping we have a a couple of people, but I'm sure
00:17:25sure people will wake up late on
00:17:26on a weekend and come in. Yeah. So
00:17:29So a bit anxious. MUSIC
00:17:40A lot more people than I thought. Hi guys. Welcome. Today
00:17:44Today is our first day and you guys guys are inaugurating the cafe. So
00:17:47So we are called Veronica's. So please
00:17:50please do the honours. What a great
00:17:58great turnout it is. It's a bit overwhelming.
00:18:02overwhelming. I mean, we're running running out of space, which is good.
00:18:04good. Good problems only the second
00:18:07second time in my life I'm eating
00:18:08eating poached eggs. So good. In
00:18:13In a city where a chapati and a cup
00:18:15cup of chai costs £0.10. The people
00:18:18people of Bandra are happy to splash
00:18:21splash out 80 times that amount on
00:18:23on a cup of coffee and an artisan
00:18:25artisan bagel. I need an avocado avocado cream cheese, no dairy on
00:18:28on a buckwheat toast. The last time
00:18:31time I ran breakfast service was was ten years ago and ten years later
00:18:35later it's different. Super different. different. What's the most popular
00:18:38popular choice so far? Salmon. Cream Cream cheese and hangover tacos a
00:18:41a lot of them. Way too many BLT bagel
00:18:44bagel out on table number 55050.
00:18:4855050. Brother. We decided to get
00:18:51get the hangover tacos because it's
00:18:54it's Saturday and. Some people were
00:18:55were very naughty last night. It
00:19:03It is. It is so cute. Honestly, there's
00:19:05there's so much taken yet. Generally
00:19:11Generally I order a flat white. It's It's a black coffee with ice. That's
00:19:14That's it. A Mokha frappuccino is
00:19:17is my favourite. Sometimes I do the
00:19:20the macchiato, which is a smaller smaller coffee but 90% of the time
00:19:24time yeah, it's Americano. The black black coffees. I think people are are being very pretentious. I want.
00:19:28want. To slap everyone who is in
00:19:29in love with coffee. This whole coffee
00:19:34coffee culture drives me nuts. Everyone's Everyone's like, oh, my God, I can't
00:19:37can't wake up till I have my cup cup of coffee. Please. You live with
00:19:40with chai for the longest time. Everyone Everyone across the world is drinking
00:19:43drinking your chai. Relax with this this coffee culture, everyone's just
00:19:46just constantly wired and awake and and wants like some dose of I'm sorry
00:19:49sorry I do not subscribe to this this at all. I certainly don't go
00:19:53go to the swanky coffee places because
00:19:57because they frustrate me. I don't don't even know how to order that
00:20:00that coffee, so I'd rather drink
00:20:01drink the coffee that I have at home.
00:20:04home. 300 to 500 for a coffee in
00:20:07in a country like India. I mean would
00:20:09would seem sinful. But you see, all
00:20:12all the Starbucks in this country
00:20:15country back to the hilt because
00:20:17because you're not selling a drink,
00:20:19drink, you're selling a brand, a
00:20:23a lifestyle. Around the corner from
00:20:33from the new cafe, Shimona has wrapped wrapped up at Fashion Week for the
00:20:37the day. She's hanging out with her
00:20:39her flatmate, fellow model Chandani
00:20:42Chandani Purohit. Thank you, thank
00:20:44thank you Pia. The friends share
00:20:47share this. £500 a month rented apartment.
00:20:52apartment. This is your first smoothie smoothie of the day. No? Yeah, this
00:20:55this is my second. What do you want?
00:20:57want? Knife finely chopping them. them. Don't have that big a knife.
00:21:01knife. I need to get myself bigger. bigger. Knife. Need to get myself myself a better kitchen so I can
00:21:05can get myself good utensil. Big
00:21:07Big house basically. Yeah. Chandani
00:21:10Chandani has been in the modelling modelling business for a year and
00:21:13and has recently moved out of her her parents house. Nice. My parents
00:21:17parents lives in Bombay and I live
00:21:18live in Bombay too, but I am living
00:21:22living apart from them. My father
00:21:26father still he doesn't earn much
00:21:29much where we live. That house is
00:21:31is very small and we have like one
00:21:34one room and in that only we have
00:21:36have kitchen, bathroom, everything. everything. We all sleep together.
00:21:39together. My mum, dad, me and my
00:21:42my brother for people in that small
00:21:46small house, I couldn't do certain certain things like because we have
00:21:49have like really hectic schedule.
00:21:51schedule. We have 3am call time and
00:21:54and everything and I wasn't liking liking it because they are a little
00:21:57little bit strict, like about my
00:22:00my timing and stuff. Certain way
00:22:02way of clothing I wear. Cheers. Cheers
00:22:06Cheers to good healthy green life. life. Healthy, traditional. Very
00:22:09Very much. They're like, no, don't don't do this, don't do that, don't
00:22:13don't do this, don't do that. I'm I'm just like, oh, my God, OK. But
00:22:16But now they know the way I live.
00:22:19live. The type of clothes I wear
00:22:21wear and they are OK with it because
00:22:23because they are seeing me growing
00:22:25growing every day. This is my little little vision board. Oh yeah. She
00:22:29She has a vision board in here that's
00:22:31that's really pretty. Oh. Merlin
00:22:34Merlin Monroe that's my dad. Yeah.
00:22:37Yeah. I remember the first time my
00:22:39my father, he saw me in newspaper
00:22:42newspaper on the first page, he called
00:22:44called me and he's like, is that that you? I was like, yes, Papa.
00:22:47Papa. He's like, oh, my God, I'm
00:22:48I'm so proud of you. How did that
00:22:51that feel? Amazing. That's why I I kept this picture here to remind
00:22:54remind myself that you can do it. it. Hey. Shimona may have already
00:22:58already found success in the modelling modelling business, but Chandani
00:23:02Chandani career is just starting
00:23:04starting out. Give me some advice,
00:23:07advice, please, I need that. Oh, Oh, my God, it's a lot going on and
00:23:11and you got to just absorb all the
00:23:14the good energies and show up on on that ramp like that all pumped.
00:23:17pumped. We gotta show that on our
00:23:18our faces and our walk when we're
00:23:21we're there. I'm very excited because
00:23:27because I get good money through through modelling. How much money
00:23:30money would you earn in one fashion fashion week? Well, I don't know
00:23:33know yet. I don't know yet. Maybe
00:23:38Maybe around one lakh. It's about
00:23:40about £1,000. Yeah, yeah. For the
00:23:45the average Indian, £1,000 one lakh lakh is the equivalent of six months
00:23:48months salary. This season. There There feels like there is this little
00:23:51little pressure you got to turn up, up, you got to show spunk. You got
00:23:54got to show energy and all of that. that. And did you see the line up
00:23:58up of designer? Yeah. Excited I got
00:24:00got you yeah. Yeah. We got each other.
00:24:06other. Next time fashion Week is
00:24:09is still under way. Come on, come come on, come on. Chandani has been
00:24:13been booked to walk the runway. My
00:24:16My family, they are, like, totally
00:24:18totally dependent on me. And Mumbai
00:24:20Mumbai explodes. Oh, my God, no,
00:24:22no, I'm losing it now. In the festival
00:24:25festival of colour. I just came.
00:24:27came. To get dirty.
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00:30:46elections. The German chancellor, chancellor, Friedrich Merz, is facing facing growing political pressure
00:30:50pressure as local elections take take place in two German states.
00:30:54states. And Ed Sheeran apologises apologises to fans for what he calls
00:30:57calls mistakes as he