Chennai is South India's gateway — IIT Madras Saarang, December classical music season, sports events at Chepauk, college fests at Anna University. Vihaya Events powers free ticketing for any Chennai event.
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Vihaya Events in Chennai — at a glance
Vihaya Events is an affordable event ticketing platform used by organisers in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, where the events calendar peaks december–January, when the Margazhi season and the Book Fair run. The city regularly hosts IIT Madras Saarang, IIT Madras Shaastra, Margazhi music season, and organisers run college fests, classical music concerts, tech conferences at venues such as Jawaharlal Nehru Indoor Stadium and Music Academy, alongside campus events at IIT Madras and Anna University. As of 2026-08-26, free events pay nothing and paid events carry a 1.75–4.5% platform fee, with UPI checkout via Razorpay, QR check-in, and payouts on request inside about 2 working days.
Last updated: 2026-08-26
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What Chennai organisers actually run — december–January, when the Margazhi season and the Book Fair run.
December–January, when the Margazhi season and the Book Fair run.
Margazhi is unlike anything else in the country: from mid-December into January, well over a thousand concerts across three hundred-plus sabha venues, Carnatic music, Bharatanatyam, classical drama, each sabha selling its own season pass. Chennai Sangamam then takes 14 to 18 January across some twenty city venues with fifty-plus folk forms, free and outdoors. Saarang at IIT Madras ran 8 to 12 January 2026 in its 52nd edition with over 80,000 expected footfall, and Chennai Trade Centre carries the expo year.
Vihaya Events is not affiliated with these events — they are listed to show the kind of programming Chennai supports.
The December Margazhi season is a city-wide classical music calendar with its own loyal audience and sabha venues — programming against it is hard, programming into it is competitive.
6 institutions whose unions and organising committees run ticketed events in Chennai:
Where Chennai events actually happen, from Jawaharlal Nehru Indoor Stadium downwards:
The December Margazhi season is a city-wide classical music calendar with its own loyal audience and sabha venues — programming against it is hard, programming into it is competitive.
Six questions, answered for Chennai specifically. Last updated 2026-08-26.
Chennai’s calendar peaks december–January, when the Margazhi season and the Book Fair run. Set your event up before it does — about two minutes, and a free event costs nothing to run.