Live singer in Mulund, Mumbai

Mulund is the last big suburb before Thane, a green and orderly place of housing societies, schools and clubs, with the Kalidas Natyagruha as one of the area’s well-known stages. Gujarati and Marathi families have a long presence here, and societies take their annual events seriously.

Society terraces and clubhouses are the main venues for birthdays and anniversaries, and banquet halls near the Eastern Express Highway host weddings and receptions. Navratri and Ganeshotsav are the biggest society occasions, and school and community annual days bring a younger audience. Dharmik’s sets adapt to each of them.

Because Mulund is in Mumbai, there is no travel. The planning is about the highway at rush hour and a society’s rules on sound.

Mulund’s year is quiet and organised, like the suburb. Navratri and Ganeshotsav fill the society grounds, the Marathi theatre season fills the Kalidas Natyagruha, the winter weddings fill the halls near the highway and the annual days of the schools and clubs fill the spring. The Gujarati and Marathi communities have lived here for decades, and their committees run events with care.

Venues are society clubhouses and grounds, school fields, banquet halls near the Eastern Express Highway and the restaurants around the station. Committees set rules on sound and finish times, and the nearest building is often close.

The highway is heavy at rush hour, and the plan allows for it. We ask for the committee’s rules and the power arrangements at the first message.

Mulund is orderly and well organised, and its committees run events by the clock. An evening starts at the printed time, speeches are short and the music ends when the society’s rule says it must. Gujarati and Marathi families share the compounds, and a Marathi song or a Gujarati folk number is warmly received. Guests are educated about music, and a clean performance is valued over a loud one.

The theatre tradition at the Kalidas Natyagruha means that a good story between songs is appreciated.

Mulund is the last suburb before Thane, and the Eastern Express Highway runs along it. A society or a hall here is often near the border, and guests from both sides attend. The band is already in the region, so there is no travel to plan, and a site visit before a larger event is easy.

Committees prefer to approve a booking in writing, and we send the plan, the setup list and the finishing hour for their records.