Piyush Mishra Talks Udankhatola India Tour with Ballimaaraan

The writer, actor and musician and his band talk about heading to cities like Indore, Raipur, Lucknow and more between November 2024 and March 2025, with an album also in the works

- ANURAG TAGAT

In 2016, when actor, writer and musician Piyush Mishra, guitarist Nishant Agarwal and percussionist Jayant Patnaik started their music project Ballimaaraan, it was just a trio. A culmination of all of Mishra's work in theater, film and music, Ballimaaraan has since grown to become 14 members strong (including crew), touring around India in 2023 and in the U.S. early this year.

Mishra says over a video call, “There are nine people on stage itself. It has become a big band and there are high expectations.” Ballimaaraan is now looking even further, mounting a 14-city tour starting Nov. 9 in Kolkata. The Udankhatola India tour - which will see Mishra and Ballimaaraan even travel by road on a tour bus between cities - is curated by entertainment company Tamboo and produced jointly with fellow entertainment firm Thinking Hats.

Mishra’s Ballimaaraan Udankhatola India tour also stops by Ahmedabad (Nov. 23), Vadodara (Nov. 24), Indore (Nov. 30), Bhopal (Dec. 1), Pune (Dec. 8), Mumbai/Thane (Dec. 21) and in 2025, spreads out to Raipur (Jan. 12), Hyderabad (Jan. 18), Bengaluru (Jan. 25), Gurugram (Feb. 22), Chandigarh (Feb. 23), Lucknow (Mar. 1) and is slated to end in Kanpur on Mar. 2, 2025.