NEW YORK – Rockers Coldplay will play their first-ever show in India in a free performance as the anti-poverty Global Citizen Festival on Friday announced an expansion.

The festival, which distributes tickets in return for individual actions to fight extreme poverty, said it would release further details Monday.

But it confirmed Coldplay’s participation and said the November 19 show in Mumbai would be free after press reports in India said the concert would be exorbitantly expensive.

The Global Citizen Festival, established in 2012, takes place each year in New York’s Central Park on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly to push world leaders to put anti-poverty efforts high on the agenda.

“Just like our annual festival in Central Park, tickets to the Indian festival will be free. Fans will earn them through taking actions in support of education, equality and sanitation campaigns,” the festival said on its website.

It noted that the Mumbai concert would take place on World Toilet Day, which draws attention to sanitation problems.

While most Coldplay fans likely have indoor plumbing, around half of Indians do not have regular access to modern toilets, presenting a major public health hazard.

Coldplay lead singer Chris Martin serves as the creative director of the Global Citizen Festival.

India is not a new interest for Coldplay, whose video for “Hymn for the Weekend,” released in January, was shot in the country, although critics said it presented stereotypical images.

The latest New York edition of the Global Citizen Festival, to take place on September 24, will feature R&B superstar Rihanna, metal greats Metallica and leading rapper Kendrick Lamar.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi appeared at the festival in 2014 to lend his support to its goals.

TORONTO – Chinese actress Fan Bingbing dazzled fans on the red carpet at the Toronto International Film Festival when she debuted her new film “I Am Not Madame Bovary,”a comedy about a woman seeking revenge against her ex-husband.

The film, by famed Chinese director Feng Xiaogang, follows a couple who decide to fake a divorce as a ploy to obtain property.

Their plans go awry when Fan’s character discovers her husband has moved into their new apartment with another woman, spurring her on a years-long mission to get the fake divorce annulled, so that she can remarry her husband and get a divorce for real.

Fan said she hoped the film’s title, taken from 19th century author Gustave Flaubert’s novel “Madame Bovary” about an adulterous woman who embarks on affairs to escape her mundane country life, would help draw audiences in.

“Because (Madame Bovary) is so iconic, I think it’s a really interesting character that audiences know immediately,” Fan told Reuters.

“I want audiences to appreciate the title when they see the film later.” Actor Guo Tao said that while the film was very Chinese, he hoped the story would also resonate with a global audience.

“I believe it’s a movie’s duty to spread culture, and I believe there are many deeply rooted layers of culture in this Chinese movie,” he said.