Here's how Nita Ambani’s NMACC is redefining India’s soft power through art and culture

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The Nita Mukesh Ambani Cultural Centre is on a mission — to democratise art forms, and showcase them to the world.
Here's how Nita Ambani’s NMACC is redefining India’s soft power through art and culture
The Phantom of the Opera being staged at the NMACC’s The Grand Theatre. 

IT WAS A HUMID March afternoon and Mumbai’s most eclectic crowd had gathered in the city’s newest cultural destination — the Nita Mukesh Ambani Cultural Centre (NMACC) — to watch the 2 pm show of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical masterpiece, The Phantom of the Opera. As we sat in the theatre café and sinned on a giant chocolate muffin, waiting for the doors of The Grand Theatre to open, I couldn’t help but eavesdrop on conversations of people about their The Phantom of the Opera experience at the West End in London or Broadway in New York.