The Diljit Dosanjh Aura tour has added two more cities, with Chandigarh and Kolkata joining the India schedule in December. Dosanjh announced the new dates on Instagram on 9 November. He will perform in Chandigarh on 12 December at the New PCA Stadium in Mullanpur, New Chandigarh, and then in Kolkata on 19 December at Vivekananda Yuba Bharati Krirangan. Tickets will be sold in two phases, with a pre-sale opening on 10 November at 12 pm and general sales starting on 12 November at 3 pm through BookMyShow.
The two additions extend the Diljit Dosanjh Aura tour, which has already covered several Indian cities. The Diljit Dosanjh Aura tour began its India leg in Delhi-NCR on 1 November, and the Delhi show drew a full house at Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium. After the new dates were announced, the schedule lists Indore on 15 November, Ahmedabad on 21 November, Mumbai on 27 November, Bengaluru on 29 November and Lucknow on 5 December, before the Chandigarh and Kolkata shows close the India run. A New Year’s Eve concert in Abu Dhabi is also planned.
The Chandigarh concert is the first of the two new dates. The New PCA Stadium in Mullanpur will host the show on 12 December, and it is the venue the tour has named for the city. A week later, the Diljit Dosanjh Aura tour reaches Kolkata, with the concert at Vivekananda Yuba Bharati Krirangan, the large stadium in Salt Lake. The gap between the two shows gives the tour a week to move from Punjab to West Bengal, and both dates fall in the second half of December, when the India leg is due to wind down.
Diljit Dosanjh Aura tour ticket sale dates
The Diljit Dosanjh Aura tour ticket sale follows the pattern used for the earlier shows. The pre-sale opens on 10 November at 12 pm, and the general sale begins on 12 November at 3 pm. Tickets will be available only through BookMyShow, which is handling sales for the tour. Fans in both cities have waited for local dates since the India schedule was first announced, and the two-phase sale gives early buyers a first window before the wider sale opens.
The Indore show on 15 November is the next date on the tour, and it comes with its own off-stage story. Indore’s District Child Protection Officer wrote to the organisers on 6 November and directed them to keep four of Dosanjh’s songs out of the performance, citing concerns about their influence on children aged five and above who will be allowed to attend. The letter named songs accused of glorifying alcohol, drugs and violence, and it followed a complaint by Chandigarh professor Dr Panditrao Dharenavar. It cited a 22 July 2019 order of the Punjab and Haryana High Court on songs that glorify intoxicants and violence. Dosanjh has said he intends to perform in Indore as scheduled.
Diljit Dosanjh Aura tour and the Indore song order
The Diljit Dosanjh Aura tour has faced other organisational hurdles since it opened. Dosanjh spoke on Instagram Live about attempts to take the tour to Bihar, and said the shows there did not happen because organisers found the crowd hard to manage and would not take responsibility for it. He said he had tried twice to arrange concerts in Bihar, and both attempts ended the same way. The Delhi opener also drew attention for its scale, with the show running for nearly six hours and entry allowed for audiences aged five and above.
The tour is the India leg of a world tour that has already played Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Germany, France, Austria, Italy, the Netherlands and Australia. The India dates run from the Delhi opener through to Kolkata on 19 December, and Dosanjh has told viewers he plans to stay in India until 20 December to finish the remaining concerts. The Chandigarh and Kolkata additions fill two of the gaps fans had pointed out when the first India list was published without them.
Diljit Dosanjh Aura tour dates in December
For fans in Chandigarh, the 12 December date is the first chance to see the show at home, at a stadium that has hosted large concerts before. For fans in Kolkata, the 19 December date at Vivekananda Yuba Bharati Krirangan is the closing India show of the run. The pre-sale on 10 November at noon is the first chance to buy tickets for either city, and the general sale follows on 12 November at 3 pm. The Diljit Dosanjh Aura tour will then move to its New Year’s Eve concert in Abu Dhabi, after the India leg ends in Kolkata.