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In today’s edition of unexpected news on your 2026 bingo card, a part of the northbound coastal road has been made into an automotive music box of sorts. A 500-metre stretch of South Mumbai’s coastal road between Amarsons Garden and Priyadarshini Park marks India’s first musical road, where cars speeding through are triggering the melody of the hit Slumdog Millionaire song Jai Ho.
The technology that does this is called ‘rumble strips’ – not unlike a vinyl record, actually. Cars travelling over the specifically marked intervals at speeds of about 70-80 km/h trigger the melody through friction between the tires and the road. Mumbai’s only the fifth city in the world to do this!
The musical stretch, inaugurated by Devendra Fadnavis at 12.30pm on Wednesday, is now open to the public to drive across. It starts approximately 500m after exiting the northbound Nariman Point-Worli tunnel.