For the festive season, Phoenix Mall of Asia sparkles with the India Light Festival 2.0 – Sitaro Ki Diwali – The Festival of Lights, Redefined.
Launched in September of this year with Navratri, the grand Diwali décor installation has transformed the Plaza into a vibrant festive hub, glowing with dazzling star-inspired elements and setting the tone for the season’s celebrations.
Building on last year’s success of programmatic light installations that became a city landmark, this year’s Phoenix India Light Festival (ILF) 2025 takes the experience further by centering on the theme Rhythms of Reverie.
Phoenix Mall of Asia’s centre director Ritu Mehta said of the glittering displays: “Phoenix India Light Festival 2025 is one of the most unique, immersive, experiential festivals of its kind in India, blending art, technology, and imagination into a celebration that sparks wonder for every visitor. At Phoenix, we are committed to curating moments that inspire joy, creativity, and connection. Bengaluru, with its vibrant cultural fabric, provides the perfect backdrop for this luminous journey, and we are delighted to bring the city together once again under the brilliance of light.”
A dynamic display
At ILF 2025, rhythmic light patterns create harmony between movement and stillness.
Indeed, the mall has been reimagined as a luminous sanctuary where art and technology come together, offering visitors an immersive journey of colour, memory, and imagination.
Animated beams and glowing installations evoke moments where time feels suspended and every step opens a new perspective, inviting visitors to explore, engage, and lose themselves in a radiant celebration.
That said, this year's illuminated installations form an interactive wonderland where creativity, technology, and human connection converge, creating a luminous celebration that inspires joy and unity.
What to expect at this year's festival
The festival features a set of large-scale light art environments, each offering a distinct sensory narrative.
- Echoes is a portal of shifting light inspired by the aurora, where soft repetitions of glow carry fragments of what has passed and return like memories finding their way back. Its towering frame, illuminated with animated multi-colour programmable LED lights, creates a gateway into an intergalactic world that shimmers with fragments of recollection and wonder.
- Tunnel of Colour is an expansive walkway where layered beams and constantly changing hues surround visitors, turning movement itself into an experience. The shifting palette makes every step unique, inviting people to pause, pose, and immerse themselves in a cascade of colour that feels alive.
- Dreamscape takes the form of a luminous maze inspired by galaxies, where a woven network of lights and gradients creates the sensation of walking through a living constellation. As visitors move within the installation, colours ripple like whispers and shadows fold into hidden spaces that invite rediscovery, making it both poetic and interactive.
- Chasing Stars draws the eye skyward with a celestial archway that arcs overhead, its strings of warm lights and illuminated stars sweeping across the path like shooting stars in motion. Larger-than-life stars placed around the area, supported by moving projections, enhance the sense of stepping into a night sky where each streak of light carries the promise of a fleeting wish.
