Please no queries about how we landed there.. It all started at the Leopold cafe at Coalba, continued till Nariman Point, went on as we scouted pub after pub in Bandra West on a Saturday night, and finally landed up at Pulse. As far as the scouting bit is concerned, we went to Totos, the garage pub, where we were told to wait for half an hour, at Red Box cafe, we did not ask only looking at the long queue, and at Sheetal Bukhara, found it not what we were looking forward to, were unable to locate Poisson, and thats why we ended where we were.
For the uninitiated, Pulse is a discotheque located at Hill road, bang opposite Globus showroom. No idea, when does it start, and very much like most of the discotheques, you never know when it closes down as well. We were told at 9 pm, that because of some private party, it will open at 11pm, and when leaving at 3am, we still saw the people dropping by. No queries again about the entry charge, as it varies from time to time and from situation to situation, which the entry desk decides. For three of us, it was Rs. 1500 cover charge (now don’t laugh if we paid on the higher side), as we anyway encashed all of that.
Before the real story begins, few confessions to begin with. Had never been to a discotheque earlier, so all my descriptions may suffer an extreme bias… Anyway, the entrance was small, not loads of people around. Anyway, it was just 11 15 pm and peope had just started tickling in. The interiors were invisible, so it does not matter whether they are well done or not. In one corner, there were few stools, where you can nurse your drinks or just relax, if you had one too many. As we went inside, it took a while to adjust to the dim lighting around, and to ensure we looked like pros, hit the bar straight away. Don’t ask me what all we drunk, I don’t even remember now, there were so many different flavors of breezer 
and obviously the more enterprising of the lot had to try beer as well. The music was nice, and the DJ belted nice numbers one after the other. Thankfully, for ordinary mortals like me, there were some Hindi numbers and known English tracks, so that one atleast knew what was going around. The crowd went on increasing, and so did the spirit. Time to hit the dance floor and set it on fire straight away. We did set it on fire, albeit in our style, and don’t know if our dashing dance steps left some heartburns also in the crowd….
Time did fly and so around 2 30 am, the faint hearted amongst us thought its high time we leave the place. People were still tickling in, booze was still flowing, spirits were getting a bit too high for comforts of many, and PDA( Public display of affection) was on in full swing. Guess thats when I realised what the phrase “PARTY ANIMAL” means. Few minutes later, thought it was enough of an experience and left the place through some back door after passing through a dark alley.
If only the night ended here, which was not to be. We had heard somewhere that Bandstand remains open till 4 am, and so thought it quite natural to sip some nice drinks there as well by the sea side before calling it a day. May be we were a toch too greedy, or at least the almighty thought so, as it was closed. So, we were soon all loaded again in the auto cheering an eventful day ( or call it night, if you feel so) and humming some unknown melodies.
P.S. Did i mention anywhere the fun of herding back two of your friends to home, when one was ready to sleep at anything anywhere, while the other was moon walking all the way. I hope, i have not, but trust me, its fun.
