MSLF 2024 - Aashiqana Lucknow

The Mahindra Sanatkada Lucknow Festival (MSLF) 2024, celebrating its 15th edition from 2nd to 6th February at Safed Baradari & Salempur House, explores the theme “Aashiqana Lucknow”, highlighting the city’s rich tapestry of romantic and soulful love. The festival features crafts bazaars, heritage walks, literary talks, live performances, food festivals, workshops, exhibitions, and more, attracting visitors from across India.

“na haarā hai ishq aur na duniyā thakī hai diyā jal rahā hai havā chal rahī hai”

Here’s to walking through a city that is aashiqana not only in its people and places but also in its stories, memories, food, art, language and cityscapes. Why aashiqui, though? Some say aashiqui is synonymous with peace, and some say junoon. But the beauty of aashiqui lies in how there are multiple layers of emotions leading to diverse interpretations and manifestations of it. Aashiqui is not right, not wrong, it just is.

Come celebrate aashiqui with us. And while we’re at it, let's experience Ishq-e-Majazi, Ishq-e-Haqiqi and all things in between, walking the tight ropes of humanity and the social fabric that it exists in, all against the backdrop of a very Aashiqana Lucknow.