This new bar was to have a filmi theme, pictures of film stars everywhere. There would be different halls for the dancers, each with a distinct decor. There was going to be a Mughal-e-Azam room, and a DDLJ room."
— "Sacred Games", Vikram Chandra
If bar owners and dancers are jubilant about the Supreme Court's decision on Tuesday to uphold the Bombay High Court's 2006 verdict to allow dance bars to reopen, then it is not evident at a bar next to a famous restaurant in one of the most expensive suburbs in Mumbai that evening. There are not more than eight drinkers, all male, when this reporter walks in, only to be greeted by a stage with an 'orchestra' and a curiously placed couch next to the singers.
This bar has just one hall and nothing like a Mughal-e-Azam or Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge room.
Patron as Entertainer
Two visibly drunk men, likely in their late 40s, appear enthralled by two singers lip-synching to an eminently forgettable Salman Khan number. While the female singer croons "Humko pyaar hua", one of the two men signals to her that he can't afford to be in love, with her that is, and chuckles. For the next 20 minutes, this portly man holds everyone's attention if not with his pelvic thrust at least with his knowledge of lyrics of almost every song.
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This new bar was to have a filmi theme, pictures of film stars everywhere. There would be different halls for the dancers, each with a distinct decor. There was going to be a Mughal-e-Azam room, and a DDLJ room."
— "Sacred Games", Vikram Chandra
If bar owners and dancers are jubilant about the Supreme Court's decision on Tuesday to uphold the Bombay High Court's 2006 verdict to allow dance bars to reopen, then it is not evident at a bar next to a famous restaurant in one of the most expensive suburbs in Mumbai that evening. There are not more than eight drinkers, all male, when this reporter walks in, only to be greeted by a stage with an 'orchestra' and a curiously placed couch next to the singers.