Shankar Mahadevan, Ehsaan Noorani and Loy Mendonsa's IIT-D gig stopped over ‘student injury’

Shankar Mahadevan, Ehsaan Noorani, Loy Mendonsa and Piyush Mishra headed to IIT-DInside IIT’s Open Air Theatre (OAT), the venue for Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy’s performance on Monday, students, professors and even some families sat on the stairs, waiting for the Bollywood trio to arrive.
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But at the entry to the OAT, in the ‘village area’, things weren’t so cool. Student volunteers, security guards and Delhi Police officers stood on one side of the barricades, and hundreds of aspiring attendees on the other, even as an announcement said, “Aap log pata nahin kis ummeed mein yahaan khade hain.Last entry shaam paanch baje hui thi. Ab faculty ki bhi entry nahin hai.” “Humne Rs. 500 ka pass khareeda hai. Entry kaise nahin hogi?” someone screamed. “Humara fest hai, humara college hai, aur humari hi entry nahin hai?” asked others. Probably referring to the recent Skrillex concert in Gurgaon, one of the guards replied, “Akhbaar padhte ho? Gurgaon mein marr gayi ladki gaane sunne ke chakkar mein. Yahaan bhi aisa hi karwana hai?”
Some of the latecomers just made their peace with the screen in the village area that played the performances in the OAT, but others tried to sneak in. Manoj, a Dyal Singh College student, said, “Bas peechhe se deewar kood kar jaana hai. Mujhe pass nahin mil paaya, warna hoon toh main yahaan 4pm se. Hum toh Skrillex concert mein bhi thay.” Meanwhile, back at the entry point, the tussle between the guards and people who wanted to go in was still on. And when Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy finally arrived, in an attempt to force their way in, some of the students pushed against the barricades.
The musicians started with their famous 'Ganpati' song. Shankar said, “We love you, IIT Delhi. The biggest high we get is from performing for students. And now, we are going to a play a song from when we were students.” They played Dil Chahta Hai’s title track, moved on to a couple of other Bollywood tracks, but then suddenly excused themselves from the audience for a bit. And then an announcement was made which said, “The programme is being closed because some of your friends have broken the barricades and a student has been injured. We’ll be opening the exit gates; all of you can leave.”

At the entry point to the OAT, a guard said that after one barricade was broken, a student who was probably from DU had tried to jump off another barricade and hurt himself on the head. And in yet another reference to Gurgaon’s Skrillex concert, an IIT student added, “The organizers are just scared – nobody wants a repeat of Skrillex. Inside the OAT, there was plenty of space, but they decided to leave some khaali. Entry point pe bhi nobody has been seriously hurt, but they’ve ended the programme so things don’t get worse.”
Himanshu Lunawat, a fourth-year student and one of the organizers, later told us, “Because people were getting unruly, we announced that somebody was injured, but no one was hurt. We were just trying to make sure that nobody actually gets injured. Also, the passes are always free. Whoever paid for them must have been duped.”
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