Hear 'Jai Ho' on the go! Mumbai launches India's first ‘Musical Road’ playing AR Rahman's award-winning song: Video

Mumbai introduced India's first musical road, allowing motorists to hear 'Jai Ho' from Slumdog Millionaire while crossing this unique route. The road features rumble strips designed to create sound waves on the Chhatrapati Sambhaji Maharaj Coastal Road. 

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Hear 'Jai Ho' on the go! Mumbai launches India's first ‘Musical Road’ playing AR Rahman's award-winning song: Video

ARE musical roads a thing? In a first for India, Mumbai introduced this unique project on the Chhatrapati Sambhaji Maharaj Coastal Road. Shortly after exiting the Coastal Road tunnel, commuters will enter a 500-metre-long musical road which has been developed on the northbound carriageway between Nariman Point and Worli.

Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis attended the launch event along with Deputy Chief Minister Eknath Shinde. Inaugurated by the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), this stretch has been engineered using specially designed rumble strips palced into the asphalt at regular intervals and depths.

BMC in a post on X stated, "