This is how you can get free tickets to Coldplay concert in India (if it happens!)

News about the proposed Coldplay concert and the whopping prices of the tickets have taken the social media with a storm.

Mid-Day reported that the concert, an event by the Global Citizen initiative, will take place on November 19 at MMRDA in Mumbai. The daily also reported that the tickets for the event will range from Rs 25,000 to Rs 5 lakh.

Vijay Nair, CEO of Only Much Louder (OML), in a series of tweets, dismissed the claim saying that 90% of the tickets for the Global Citizen Festival are free.

As a thumb rule, let A tabloid not be your source of information on any concerts, ticket prices or life in general.

— Vijay Nair (@vijay_nair) September 9, 2016

Not many artists I have met care as much about their fans as Coldplay does. So rest assured, keep your kidney with you.

— Vijay Nair (@vijay_nair) September 9, 2016

Global Citizen has a global format that takes a Google search to find out. 90% tickets are free and 'earned'. That's 25 k less than 25 k.

— Vijay Nair (@vijay_nair) September 9, 2016

According to the Global Citizen website, a majority of the tickets for the festival cannot be bought. Fans or the other interested people will have to download the Global Citizen app via iTunes for iPhones and Google Play Store for Android gadgets. Once you download the app, you will be notified about 'Taking Action.' These actions can be about raising awareness about the issues Global Poverty Project has been tackling since it's inception in 2008 with the help of the UN, the Australian Government, and the British Government.

Users of the app will have to take those actions and they will earn points after the completion of every action. These actions can be from tweeting about the issues to signing petitions. 

After a certain amount of points, users can enter the lottery draw to get tickets for the festival. If the user wins the draw, they will get two tickets. Leading up to the festival dates, Global Citizen will press for various issues. If users don't win in the first draw, they will have that many opportunities to win.

This year's Global Citizen Festival is taking place at Great Lawn in Central Park, New York on September 24. Rihanna, Kendrick Lamar, Metallica, and others will be performing. For that festival, apart from the free tickets, a few seats have been put on the online ticketing platform Ticketmaster for a section of the concert space marked as 'Global VIP'. The prices for the same start at $199 (Rs 13,000 approx). Therefore, it is probably safe to conclude that the prices doing rounds in the news for their concert in India are for this particular section.

So if you don't mind enjoying the concert from a not-privileged seat, downloading the app could be your best course of action. For the VIP seating though, keep your kidney ready!