The Big Break opened its call for entries on 5 August, generating impressive organic response from all over India.

One competition, three disciplines, and an audition that begins on your phone. Singers who come through will be considered for releases on BLM Music, Bosco Martis’s label. A rotating panel of top singers and composers from Bollywood’s music world will be announced shortly.

Mumbai, 18 August 2026: India has been running talent hunts for thirty years. However, each of them was created for a television audience, and for 1 discipline. The Big Break, which opens its call for entries today, is the first one built for the way the country actually watches now; and for the entire trinity of mainstream talent disciplines: Acting, Dancing & Singing.

The brain-child of Bollywood legends Mukesh Chhabra & Bosco Martis, They roped in one of the pre-eminent format creators in India – Rajiv Lakshman – to reimagine the category for today’s audiences. Produced by BARD, The Big Break is the world’s first multi-platform, multi-discipline talent IP searching for actors, singers and dancers in a single competition that lives natively across Instagram, YouTube and Snapchat before climaxing in an on-ground finale.

There are no audition queues. No city-by-city registration camps. Anyone can enter by sending a collaboration request to the official @thebigbreakindia handle with their performance: monologue, a song, a routine. Up to 40-60 entries a day will be accepted and published to the show’s channels, which means every selected performer’s audition is seen not only by the people behind it, but also by the audiences built by the show.

That mechanic is the point. On The Big Break, the audition is the content, and the casting is the show.

The format evolves by stages into a social-first reality competition and On-ground Gala finale.

Practitioners, not performers

Most talent shows hire celebrities to sit in the chairs. The Big Break was built by the people who do the picking for a living.

Mukesh Chhabra is among the most respected casting directors in Indian cinema, the man whose room a generation of actors has had to walk into. Bosco Martis is one of Bollywood’s most celebrated choreographers, with a body of work most of the country can hum along to without knowing his name, and the head of BLM Music, his own record label. Both are co-owners of the IP, and both will mentor their disciplines directly: Chhabra on acting, Martis on dance.

The third chair, singing, will be held by a guest panel of Bollywood composers & singers, to be announced in the coming weeks.

It also means all three disciplines on The Big Break lead somewhere real. Acting runs through a working casting studio. Dance runs through a working choreographer’s floor. And singing runs through a working label: voices that come through the competition will be considered for BLM Music’s release slate, including original music from the show itself.

Quote from Mukesh Chhabra

Mukesh Chhabra and Bosco Martis Throw Open World’s First Digital-first, Multi-Platform & Multi-discipline Talent Hunt

“Talent has never been limited to one city or one background, and after years of meeting artists from across the world, I felt it was time to make the journey between talent and the industry a little shorter. That’s what inspired Bosco and me to create The Big Break. Together with our teams, we wanted to build a platform that is accessible, inclusive, and designed for today’s digital generation, where actors, singers, and dancers can be discovered on merit alone. At its heart, The Big Break is about opening doors and giving deserving talent a real chance to be seen by the people who can help shape the future of Indian entertainment.”

Quote from Bosco Martis

“When I started my journey, I experienced the struggles and challenges that come with chasing a dream. Those experiences shaped who I am today.

India is home to countless talented singers, actors, dancers, and performers who simply haven’t been given the platform they deserve. Some of our best dancers are still learning and performing on terraces, in gullies, and through online videos.

That’s what The Big Break is all about. Instead of waiting for talent to find us, we take the platform to them. And with BLM Music, it’s not just about winning an episode, it’s about giving talented individuals a genuine opportunity to launch their careers and showcase their talent to the world.”

Quote from Rajiv Lakshman

“This is one of the most challenging IPs that I created, but also the most fun.

The Big Break isn’t a television format retrofitted for the internet. It was designed for these platforms from the first line of the brief, which is why the discovery, the competition and the finale each live where they belong, and add up to something bigger than any one of them.”

What’s on offer

Selected performers move to Mumbai for the competition stage, where they train and compete head-to-head in front of the mentors across a run of weekly episodes and live interactive sessions. The season culminates in a full-scale on-ground finale with Bollywood in the room, carried simultaneously across the show’s channels.

For those who make it deep, the outcome is not a trophy and a return ticket. It is proximity to the people who cast, choreograph and compose for the industry and a body of work watched by a real, accumulated audience, which is increasingly what opens the next door.

For singers specifically, that door has a name on it. BLM Music will consider performers from the competition for its release slate, and the show’s own original music will be released through the label which means a voice discovered in Phase 1 can end up on a track that lives well past the season.

How to enter

Entries opened 5 August 2026. Full participation details, formats and terms are available at www.thebigbreak.in and across the show’s official handles on Instagram, YouTube, Snapchat and Facebook: @thebigbreakindia