A 23-Year-Old Plays the Guitar on Mumbai Locals. For a Beautiful Reason.

This young man spent a lot of time in the cancer ward of a hospital in Mumbai when his mother was undergoing treatment there. Today, he is seen inside local trains in Mumbai collecting funds for the treatment of cancer patients – with a guitar and a donation box.

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A 23-year-old man singing and strumming famous Bollywood numbers on his guitar is a common sight in Mumbai local trains running between Dadar and Ambernath these days. This young man, Saurabh Nimbkar, is using music for a mission – to collect funds for the treatment of cancer patients.

Four times a week, on his way back from work, he belts out popular Bollywood numbers for an appreciative audience that usually drops some money generously in his donation box.

Saurabh’s mission stems from some difficult times he saw in 2013 when his mother was diagnosed with blood cancer. She was admitted in the cancer ward of the King Edward Memorial (KEM) Hospital in Mumbai. “We stayed in the hospital for her treatment continuously for about four months - my brother, uncle and I,” he says.

There, Saurabh noticed that most of the patients admitted along with his mother, and their families, had come from rural Maharashtra. Many of them were from low-income backgrounds and had left their jobs to accompany relatives for a treatment that is extremely costly. Having given up their source of income, they were all trying hard to live in the city while also taking care of their loved ones.

Way to go Saurabh! We are proud of your out-of-the-box thinking.

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