It took precisely 25 days for Nikhil Chinapa, along with his “stubborn” team from Viacom 18, to put together the Supersonic Festival in Goa last year, after his much-publicised split with Percept and Sunburn. the director of Submerge Music, an electro dance music (EDM) company, says that organising the festival at a frenetic pace was a life-changing experience. “The most valuable lesson I have learnt is that if you want to do something which seems like an impossible task, just be stubborn about it,” says Chinapa. “I’ve realised that some of the biggest projects that have been done across the planet, usually are because of the stubbornness of one person. If you tell someone we have to organise a festival within 25 days, they would say it’s ridiculous. But a bunch of us in this office put our foot down and said we’re going to do it, and we did it,” he adds.

Nikhil Chinapa is on a high. Pic/Shadab Khan