Coldplay singing Vande Mataram with AR Rahman at Global Citizens Festival is the best thing you will see today

Just when you thought nothing good can happen this weekend because you can’t find an ATM full of cash due to scrapping of old Rs 500 and Rs 1000 notes, contemporary British rock band Coldplay along with music maestro AR Rahman created a history last evening by singing Vande Mataram together.

Global Citizen India initiative 2016 that took place at MMRDA grounds in Mumbai witnessed thousands flocking together to hear Coldplay sing their popular songs including 'Paradise', 'Viva La Vida', 'Yellow' and 'Fix You'. Many among the audience kept requesting for ‘Hymns of Weekend’, the song that has been shot in India by Coldplay along with Sonam Kapoor.

Introduced on stage by Shah Rukh Khan, Sachin Tendulkar and actress Frieda Pinto, Coldplay’s front man Chris Martin welcomed the crowd saying, "Namaste friends, yeh hamari khushkismati hai ki itne khoobsurat desh mein aaye hain. (We are fortunate that we have come to such beautiful country)."

Midway through the event, Chris Martin invited AR Rahman and sang 'Maa tujhe salaam...Vande maatram'.

Martin also had the Indian national flag on his console and a small tricolour stuck in his back pocket, which he removed later.

Among other Coldplay songs, he also sang 'Channa Mereya' from Karan Johar's film Ae Dil Hai Mushkil.

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Global Citizen India is aimed to catalyze India’s 15-year journey towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals, and to bring about the end of extreme poverty.