Always XP

A hotel serves its guests. We serve the city.

Comedy, music, quizzes, tournaments. Open to everyone — you don't need a room to get in.

SPIKE

Events amplify.
They don't substitute.

The building has to feel alive on a Tuesday with nothing scheduled.

Four jobs

What a night
here is actually
doing.

Never judged on ticket sales alone. If it were, we'd book very different shows.

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01

Direct revenue

Ticketed nights that pay for themselves and then some. The easiest number to measure and the least interesting one.

02

Footfall spikes

A hundred people in the building who weren't going to be here otherwise — and a bar and kitchen that get busy because of it.

03

City relevance

Ujjain finds out we exist through the shows, not the ads. That turns a guest-facing business into a city-facing one.

04

Stories

Every night generates the thing that outlasts it. After an event, strangers aren't fully strange — they have a shared reference point.

The formats

What actually
happens here.

Flip a card for what it costs and how often it runs.

01

Stand-up nights

Touring comics and open mics on the roof. Front rows get used.

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01

Monthly

₹149–₹599 depending on the name. Capped rooms, so they sell out early and stay that way.

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02

Late music sets

Low lights, rooftop only, ends when it ends.

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02

Fortnightly

₹399 typical. Starts at 11pm. The one people text their friends about the next morning.

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03

Quiz night

Teams of four, made on the spot if you came alone.

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03

Weekly · free

Tuesdays at Kafa, 8pm. Genuinely the easiest way to meet people here. Winning table eats free.

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04

PickleWars

Mixed teams, no skill requirement whatsoever.

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04

Seasonal

₹299 to enter. Brackets drawn on the day. Winners eat free at Kafa, losers usually stay anyway.

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05

Rooftop cinema

Projector, open sky, something worth watching.

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05

Monthly · free

Bring a cushion. We handle popcorn and bug spray. Weather permitting, which in Ujjain it usually is.

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06

Midnight School of Mischief

Deliberately hard to explain.

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06

Pop-up

Announced late, on purpose. Turn up and find out — that's most of the appeal and all of the format.

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The Ultimate RoastAppurv Gupta LiveMidnight School of MischiefPickleWars
Track record

XP ran before the building did.

This isn't a vertical invented for a website. It's been a live events business for years — it just finally has a rooftop attached.

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Four formats. Two sold out. One we can't explain.
4+Formats running
WeeklySomething free on
RooftopMain stage
OpenTo non-guests
Host with us

Got something
worth putting on?

Comics, musicians, quizmasters, community organisers, brands doing something that isn't just a logo on a banner — send it over. We read everything.

One condition: it has to fit the tone. An event that fills the room but breaks the brand is a loss wearing a win's clothing, and we've learned to say no to those.

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What we provide

The room and the crowd

Rooftop or ground floor, sound, lights, ticketing, promotion to our list and the city, and a bar and kitchen that runs all night.

What we're looking for

Wit, youth, participation

Things that make the audience part of it. Cultural freshness over safe bookings. Formats we haven't seen in Ujjain yet.

What we pass on

Anything that fills dates

Events booked to plug a calendar gap read as exactly that. We'd rather run a quiet Tuesday than a loud wrong one.

Tickets first.
Room optional.

Everything XP runs is open to the city. Staying here just means you don't have to find your way home afterwards.