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plant-filled terrace, where a screen is often set up for English Premier League and Bun-
desliga football matches.
Hungry Birds
(3rd Khar Rd, Khar West; 7pm-1am)
Conveniently around the corner from the train station in
leafy Khar, the Hungry Birds has lots of bright colours, cheap drinks and chicken pop-
corn.
BAR
Entertainment
The
Mumbai Mirror
, an insert of the
Times of India
, lists major events and other Mumbai
happenings, as do
Time Out Mumbai
(
www.timeoutmumbai.net
; ?50)
,
www.nh7.in
(live-music listings)
and
Mumbai Boss
(
www.mumbaiboss.com
).
It would be a crime not to see a movie in India's film capital. Unfortunately, Hindi
films aren't shown with English subtitles. The cinemas we've listed all show English-lan-
guage movies, along with some Bollywood numbers.
Mumbai has some great arts festivals: the
Mumbai Film Festival
(
www.mumbaifilmfest.org
;
Oct)
in October is excellent, as is May's Kashish-Mumbai International Queer Film Festiv-
al (
Click here
)
. Prithvi Theatre's November festival (
Click here
)
has a packed program of
excellent drama, and
Mumbai Sanskruti
(
Jan)
sees two days of Hindustani classical music.
Bluefrog
LIVE MUSIC
( 61586158;
www.bluefrog.co.in
;
D/2 Mathuradas Mills Compound, Senapati Bapat Marg, Lower Parel; admission
after 9pm Sun & Tue-Thu ?350, Fri & Sat ?600; 6.30pm-1.30am Tue-Sat, from 11.30am Sun)
Bluefrog is a
concert space, production studio, restaurant and one of Mumbai's most happening spaces.
It hosts exceptional local and international acts, and has space-age booth seating in the in-
timate main room. Happy hour - also known as 'one on the Frog' - is buy one, get one
free 6.30pm to 9pm.
National Centre for the Performing Arts
MAP
THEATRE, LIVE MUSIC
GOOGLE MAP
(NCPA; 66223737, box office 22824567;
www.ncpamumbai.com
; Marine Dr & Sri V Saha Rd, Nariman Point;
tickets ?200-800; box office 9am-7pm)
Spanning 800 sq metres, this cultural centre is the hub of
Mumbai's music, theatre and dance scene. In any given week, it might host experimental