Raipur’s First Tomato Festival

Raipur’s First Tomato Festival with rain dance, Tomato, live music, live food & too much fun, this one is going to be your favorite party in Raipur to date! ……So Let’s Get Saucy Raipur…

Don’t be surprised, these pictures are not from Spain, but from the ongoing La-Tomatina festival in Raipur. Teenagers grooving to the lyrics of the song belong to Raipur. A day before Holi, on the lines of Spain, the La-Tomatina festival was also organized in Raipur. Hrithik Roshan, Karan Johar, and Abhay Deval starrer Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara became a hit at Festivals India. Since then, these types of events are regularly held in metro cities, but in Raipur, such an event was organized after four years.

The entry fee for the event was Rs 700 for couples and Rs 400 for those who came alone. To play Holi, 5000 kg of tomatoes were first mashed well with hands, so that no one gets hurt. Organizer Hemant said that the participants throw mashed tomatoes at each other, and they slip. La-Tomatina in Bunol, Spain is celebrated in August. But he planned to organize an event just a day before Holi, the festival of colors celebrated in India. Around 500 youths of the city continued to enjoy between tomatoes in Hindi and English songs from morning till evening.

Below are some facts that need to know about the La Tomatina

• La Tomatina is believed to have started after a fight near a market in 1945

• It became an official festival in 1957.

• The “Tomatina” is held on the last Wednesday in August in the town of Buñol in Spain.

• The festival has become a tourist attraction. Thousands of tourists from around the world throng to Bunol to participate in this festival.
• Spain’s tourism secretary named the festival as a “Festivity of International Tourist Interest” in 2002.
• La Tomatina has led to other similar celebrations around the world.

• Colombian town of Sutamarchán has held a tomato fight since 2004 in June.

• In the United States, Twin Lakes, Colorado, started the “Colorado-Texas Tomato War” in 1982, which pits residents from Texas and Colorado against each other in a food fight each September.

• There are also annual La Tomatina-inspired events each year in Costa Rica and Chile.

• In 2013, city officials introduced an entry fee and limited the number of participants, citing safety concerns.