Updated On: 26 March, 2023 12:11 PM IST | Mumbai | Jane Borges
With the grand launch of Nita Mukesh Ambani Cultural Centre next week, the hope is that the city and country will finally showcase performance spectacles. But it will all depend on how far and wide the visionaries go with their ambition. Here is an exclusive insider look...

The Great Indian Musical: Civilization To Nation, will debut at the opening ceremony. It is touted to be the country’s biggest ever musical, conceived and directed by renowned playwright Feroz Abbas Khan, and will feature a crew of 800
Among the more interesting voices pushing for inclusive spaces in Mumbai is urbanist Prathima Manohar, who not very long ago told mid-day that if given a chance, she’d reimagine Bandra Kurla Complex as a “livelier” neighbourhood. “[At present] it’s a single-use place. You go there in the morning, and return by evening,” she had said. Her blueprint included markets for art and handicrafts, food pop-ups, and cultural spaces to revitalise the business district.
Arriving at the lotus-themed Nita Mukesh Ambani Cultural Centre (NMACC), a first-of-its-kind multi-disciplinary cultural and arts space at the Jio World Centre on G Block, this writer wonders if Manohar’s “ideal BKC” is in the process of becoming.