
Mumbai: party capital of India ???
Kirsty Lang
Last Updated: 3:27PM GMT 26/02/2008
Kirsty Lang follows the trail of India's Beautiful People though hip clubs, chic restaurants and trendy art galleries.
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I had just ordered a cocktail named after a sexual position when I spotted the giant bamboo egg sitting in the corner of the bar. The light was dim – red and orange silk wrapped around neon – but I could see a glamorous woman in tight jeans and stilettos climbing into it. “That’s the Ladies,” explained my friend and tour guide to Mumbai’s trendiest bars.
Seijo and the Soul Fish is in Bhandra, the favourite suburb of the Bollywood set. Inside, it throbs with music, beautiful people and trendy DJs. You could be in Soho or Manhattan. But outside it looks like a run-down, concrete office block: the only clues to its fashionable interior are the BMWs and Land Rovers parked on the muddy, potholed street alongside motorised rickshaws.
Bars like Seijo are where the “Page Three” set hangs out. In Mumbai that doesn’t mean topless models but the society page of The Times of India, which features colour spreads on celebrities and the nouveau riche. Getting on to page three is the aspiration of every Mumbai socialite.
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