DARR… KE AAGAY DANCE |
Navi Mumbai : Ever since the Supreme Court struck down the Maharashtra Government’s ban on dance bars, such bars here have begun playing a cat-and-mouse game with cops.
While many erstwhile dance bars have been converted into either orchestra bars or just ladies bars sans the dance, some bars in Turbhe and other areas do host dances.
Dance or no dance, wads of currency note continue to fly as sozzled customers shower money on dancers or singers.
Dance bars start around 6 pm, though the girls start trooping 3 pm onwards.
Some of them are brought in taxis and jeeps while many come from places such as Nerul, Shiravane, Turbhe, Kopri and Kopar Khairane.
By 8 pm, the bars are jam-packed with customers standing shoulder-to-shoulder with hardly any place to sit in.
Police do check the bars for girls with Naukarnamaas (employment details) and even verify them individually. That is the time when a hush falls on the bars.
Once the cops move out, the bouncers signal the ‘cassette wala’ as the local DJ is called to start the music full throat and girls start doing their hip-hops!
Then we have another set of bars where the girls are supposedly employed as waitresses. As police do their regular checks, the girls stand close to the customers’ tables – pretending to be waitresses. Dressed in expensive clothes and flaunting smart phones, they hardly look like waitresses. But teams, accompanied by women constables, do their paper check and move on. The music goes full blast and currency notes begin to fly. The girls just stand in the middle of the bar, smiling to their glory and enjoying the shower of currency notes.
By 9.20 pm, one can see police vehicles patrolling the bar areas, ostensibly to remind the owners that it is about time to close. The official time for closing ladies bars is 9.30 pm.
But of late, some orchestra bars have begun to function with permission to run business till 1.30 am. Here, one gets to see girls in thick make-up, carrying identity cards of being singers. Except for a couple of them who actually either sing or just do lip-movements to the loud music, many of the girls are just decorative pieces.
Customers do throw money at these girls as well and exchange telephone numbers. Some of these bars charge, what they call entry fee, for letting customers take girls out of the bar.
But since it is ‘section garam’ time during nights many customers do not take a risk. So, many play it safe by striking deals to meet during the day.
