The dancing girls of Bombay may be back

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The supreme court of India has overturned the decision by the state of Maharashtra ( where Bombay is situated ) to close the dance bars a decade back .

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/SC-allows-dance-bars-to-reopen-in-Maharashtra/articleshow/49375866.cms

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My memories from a decade back


The recent supreme court decision to revoke the ban on dance bars in Bombay brought back memories of nights spent in the dance bars of Bombay a decade back .

A short trip into nostalgia---

i used to go to these dance bars from the early 2000s till mid 2000s ---3 to 4 years....at that time i was in my mid to late twenties .

i dont even remember all the names of all the bars---dimmed from memory.....

one bar i remember is karishma bar of dance bar association chief manjit singh sethi at dadar .

but the best and most beautiful girls were to be found in tandoor bar at mahim !! i would have given a five star rating to that bar if i had to rate it....

one of the girls in tandoor bar--- named niloufer ( not real name ; these girls never use their real names in the bar)---was stunningly beautiful , slim and with light eyes and pink skin ; all the works.....

she used to regularly come and talk to me and give enticing smiles to me while dancing . naturally i was mesmerised......

but one guy warned me---she may be giving you the hint , but dont try to get her for a very dangerous goon is after her too and he is not averse to using violence to get rivals out of the way....

i was well warned !!

for later i heard that the goon went to the house of another guy who was after her and fired a pistol in the air to scare him off.....

later he and niloufer had an intimate relationship , or so i heard....

but she ran away to another state with much of his money and disappeared forever....the goon went crazy for a while and drank heavily but afterwards recovered....today he does strong arm stuff for a political party .

to come back to the original topic---the girls wear chaniya choli ( indian dress shown in photos of above post ) and dance to bollywood numbers .

we drink and watch . occasionally a client showers money in thousands to even hundreds of thousands on the girl . if you do this several times you get the chance to bed the girl many times . but the girl is after your money and she remains only as long as the money lasts . thus in the end these girls are high profile high class and extremely expensive prostitutes .

sometimes you get to hear a sad story . a friend of my friend managed to win a bar girl's heart by promising marriage . but when the time for marriage came his parents told him that if he married a bar girl he would have say goodbye to any inheritance from them . they shifted him to another house far away to keep her away from him . when the girl realised he had not met her for some time she went straight to the boy's parents and asked them to let him marry her . but they refused and there were a lot of tearful scenes as the girl was madly in love with him . she went into depression and tried to commit suicide but doctors saved her . the boy refused to get married to another girl for many years , but finally married late.....

the dance in the bars continues from late evening till 5 am in the morning .

another funny story i heard----a group of old gentlemen from parsi colony used to go out for a morning jog at 5 . 30 am in the morning . suddenly they changed their time to 4 am.....
after several such days the wife of one them got suspicious and followed them . and following them she landed in this dance bar where these old men were sitting at 4 . 30 in the morning in a dance bar drinking soft drinks watching the girls !! this they were doing wearing shorts they used to wear for jogging !!

the song ' kajra re ' on which actress aishwarya rai danced in the movie ' bunti and babli ' was the most popular ever in dance bars---the girls used to dance most enthusiastically on it .

the one dream of these girls was to dance on singer himesh reshamiyya's songs when they were a rage . but by this time the ban had been enforced....

on the last day ( 14 august 2005 ) when the bars were open there were many emotional scenes . next day ( independence day of india ) the bars were going to be closed forever---so it seemed....
the girls hugged each other and cried as they said goodbye---many clients were in tears too....

an era in Bombay's nightlife was over.....

[Rhett Butler]

Sounds good! Glad to see the government chose to preserve freedom, rather than continuing to impose censure. Beautiful women are what make life so interesting.