About Linear Festivals
Linear Festivals is a Bangalore-based performing arts organisation reimagining how audiences encounter culture in India.
Linear’s core innovation is its metro-led festival model: instead of relying on a single destination venue, it builds city-wide festivals along active public transport lines. Its flagship festival, linearಬೆಂಗಳೂರು (linear bangalore), was the city’s first 24-hour performing arts festival, held along the Green Metro Line in September 2025. The festival featured a landmark all-night performance in the heart of the city, while linking multiple venues within walking distance of stations, enabling audiences to move seamlessly between shows.
Building a festival along the metro line is both a practical and symbolic response to how a city like Bangalore functions. The metro is one of the few shared public infrastructures that cuts across class, geography, and culture, connecting neighbourhoods that rarely intersect. Audiences can move between venues within predictable commute times, discover new neighbourhoods, and engage with the arts without significant additional planning or cost. This model also allows the activation of unconventional venues, linking diverse artistic practices, audiences, and neighbourhoods into a single linear circuit.
The team
At Linear, we are always on the lookout for something new, something fresh and something fearless. Shows that will go on to become the biggest in ten years are interesting to us today.
Bharavi
Bharavi is a creative producer and technical designer who focuses on collaborative and exploratory work. He is the co-founder of linear festivals, a Bangalore company that builds performing arts festivals along public transportation lines. Bharavi is the festival director of Bangalore linear, the city's first 24 hour performing arts festival, that saw its debut in September 2025.
A reputed lighting designer and producer in the performing arts world, he also serves as the Technical Director and Curator for BLR Hubba. In his free time Bharavi wastes a lot of time smoking various meats that he would never eat.
Vishruti Brinjal
Vishruti Bindal is a Music Supervisor, Creative Producer, and Arts Policy Consultant based in Bangalore with a decade of experience in music curation, project management, and events. She supervises music for original Netflix and Amazon productions in India and is the co-founder of Linear Festivals, currently co-producing the second edition of linearಬೆಂಗಳೂರು (linear bangalore), city's first 24-hour performing arts festival.
Previously, she led global conferences and education programmes on music and cultural policy as Head of Projects at Sound Diplomacy. Vishruti also co-founded Neon Culture and the Deccan Alternative Music Conference in India, a travelling conference and showcase festival that focussed on developing the South Indian music ecosystem. She has also been nominated for the 2026 International Entrepreneur of the Year Award by Music Ally, UK.