The Mela Comes to Your Screen
Not everyone who loves Dera Baba Murad Shah Ji can be physically present at the Annual Mela. Whether due to distance, health, family commitments, or the constraints of life abroad, thousands of devotees follow the mela from their homes, their offices, their phones — connected across thousands of kilometres by the shared bond of devotion.
In recent years, live streaming and online video have made this connection more vivid and immediate than ever before.
Live Streaming During the Mela
The Annual Mela (August 28–29) is streamed live by various YouTube channels dedicated to Nakodar and to Dera Baba Murad Shah Ji content. To find the live stream:
- Search YouTube for "Nakodar Mela live" or "Dera Baba Murad Shah Ji live" in the days approaching August 28.
- Follow the official and community channels associated with the darbaar for streaming announcements.
- The Gurdas Maan performance on the night of August 29 is the most streamed segment — search specifically for this if you want to catch the highlights.
Past Mela Recordings
For those wishing to experience previous mela performances, recordings are available on YouTube from multiple years. Our Video Gallery curates the best available recordings of mela events, Uras ceremonies, and qawwali nights — a library of devotion spanning multiple years and occasions.
Watching as a Devotional Practice
Many diaspora devotees have developed personal rituals around the online mela experience: setting aside the evening of August 28–29, gathering the family, playing the live stream on the television, and sitting together in devotional attention as if in the darbaar itself. This practice — which might seem like a poor substitute for physical presence — is reported by those who do it as surprisingly powerful.
"We sit together as a family in Canada on mela night. We have the food from the langar that someone sent us frozen. We watch together. By midnight it does not feel like we are in Canada." — A devotee family from Brampton
The Audio Experience
For those who prefer audio, recordings of the qawwali performances from Nakodar are available on our Audio page. Qawwali recordings, particularly of the extended overnight performances, are best experienced through speakers or headphones at night — when the conditions most closely approximate those of the original performance.