‘Disaster’: Coldplay concert turns sour as star is booed off stage

A Coldplay concert took a dramatic turn for the worse when the opening act received a frosty reception from 50,000 fans.

Bollywood star Jasleen Royal is facing disaster head-on.

In January, the 33-year-old Indian singer opened for Coldplay on their Music of the Spheres world tour in Mumbai.

But Royal’s performance turned out to be a complete disaster and she was booed off the stage by the audience at DY Patil Stadium.

Royal hugs lead singer Chris Martin in Mumbai. Picture: Instagram

Three months later, Royal has opened up about the incident with her new 17-minute mini documentary ‘Dare to Dream’ which features footage from before, during and after the concert.

In an early scene, Royal, the first Indian singer to open for Chris Martin’s band, said two months before the show, “I think the universe was preparing me for this. The universe is giving me what I’ve asked for, and I need to prepare myself.”

During one of her final rehearsals, Royal told the camera that she didn’t “want to let anybody down.”

“My band members, my team, my managers, Coldplay for giving us this opportunity and for choosing me out of so many people,” she shared. “I hope they feel right about their decision.”

While backstage before the sold-out show, Royal asked her band, “What do you think, are we prepared?” After a brief pause, someone in the band quietly responded, “Yeah.”

But shortly after taking the stage, Royal was met with boos and jeers from the crowd.

“Witnessed her performance and she was a disaster,” a fan who was at the show said in the doc. “Maybe she had a really bad cold and cough.”

After the performance, a crew member told Royal, “For the technical part, we are sorry. The creative part, I leave to you.”

The controversy was ultimately overshadowed by remarks made onstage by Chris Martin. Picture: YouTube

Royal blamed the incident on her in-ear monitors malfunctioning. She returned to the stadium the next day for her second planned performance as Coldplay’s opening act.

“There’s a lot of pressure,” she said to her team in her dressing room. “I’ll die. I swear I’ll die. I’m still processing. There’s a lot to process.”

But, as the documentary showed, Royal’s second show went off without a hitch. This time, the fans in the audience cheered during her performance.

The controversy involving Royal was ultimately overshadowed by Coldplay themselves due to remarks made by Martin, 48, onstage.

At the first show at DY Patil Stadium, Martin told the crowd, “Thank you for welcoming us even though we are from Great Britain. Thanks for forgiving us despite everything Great Britain did.” (The British government previously ruled India as a colony from 1858 until 1947.)

Martin’s colonialism comments went viral on social media and sparked mixed reactions from fans. He still has not addressed the incident.

This story first appeared in the New York Post and was republished with permission.